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Gulf Oil Spill Spreads

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight

Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

In Youngstown, Ohio, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems proposed using a zero or very low oxygen chemical process that would turn shredded tires into a gas that would be burned to produce steam for heating buildings. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Youngstown City Council Unanimously Votes Against an ‘Untested and Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant

By James Bruggers

Kimberly Laskowsky sits in her living room in Marianna, Washington County, approximately 850 feet from EQT's Gahagan well pad.

‘It’s Just Too Close’: Pennsylvanians Who Live Near Fracking Suffer as Governments Fail to Buffer Homes

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

President Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in April 2023 as part of his administration's Investing in America tour in Fridley, Minnesota, focusing on infrastructure and clean energy jobs. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States, a $10 million investment that's expected to create 100 new jobs. Electrolyzers use an electric current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen can be used as a clean power source to help decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and industrial processes. Credit: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images.

Midwesterners Lament Lack of Transparency as Coalition Seeks Federal Aid for Proposed Hydrogen Hub

By Grace van Deelen

Climate protesters block the doors to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday as an NYPD police officer with the strategic Response Group, which specializes in large demonstrations, crowd control, and major events, center, watches over the demonstrators and another officer arrests a protester, left. Credit: Keerti Gopal

More Than 100 Protesters Arrested in New York City While Calling on the Federal Reserve to End Fossil Fuel Financing

By Keerti Gopal

In Pennsylvania, 40 percent of the watersheds that provide water for natural gas fracking contain small streams, according to FracTracker. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?

By Jake Bolster

A coal-burning energy plant, as seen through cloud cover near Bismarck, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images.

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Maya Etienne at the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands Nature Preserve, in Gary, IN. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson

Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters

By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna and Victoria St. Martin

Fracking protestors

Ohio Injection Wells Suspended Over ‘Imminent Danger’ to Drinking Water

By Dani Kington, Athens County Independent

The Texas State Capitol in Austin. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images.

As Federal Money Flows to Carbon Capture and Storage, Texas Bets on an Undersea Bonanza

By Amal Ahmed

Activists at a protest in New York City, where six people were arrested for blocking the entrance at KKR's headquarters on April 26, 2023.

Private Equity Giant KKR Is Funding Environmental Racism, New Report Finds

By Keerti Gopal

A natural gas compressor station sits on a hillside in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

New Pennsylvania Legislation Aims to Classify ‘Produced Water’ From Fracking as Hazardous Waste

By Jake Bolster

The prison fence at the Southeast State Correctional Complex in Floyd County, Kentucky, meets a road and open coal seam. Credit: Jill Frank

Q&A: From Coal to Prisons in Eastern Kentucky, and the Struggle for a ‘Just Transition’

By James Bruggers

Three members of security and law enforcement tackle Teddy Ogborn last week at the Jackson Lake Lodge, where the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium was being held in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Credit: Climate Defiance

Activists Crash Powerful Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole as Climate Protests and Responses to Them Escalate

By Keerti Gopal

The exterior of Clark Hall at Case Western Reserve University. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

At Case Western, Student Activists Want the Administration to Move More Decisively on Climate Change

By Danish Bajwa

The Western Meadowlark, state bird of North Dakota, was studied during research on the prevalence of grassland birds in fields of corn and soy beans in North Dakota used for biofuels. Credit: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

By Lydia Larsen

A view of the San Miguel Electric Cooperative power plant, with coal ash in the foreground. April 26, 2019. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Texas Permits Lignite Mine Expansion Despite Water Worries

By Dylan Baddour

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