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GOP Senators, Fueled by Industry Cash, Propose Bill to Expedite Small Scale...
By Steve Horn U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced a bill to fast-track the regulatory process for the export of small-scale liquefied natural gas...
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7 Reasons Why Jeff Flake Is Awful on Climate Change and Energy Justice
This week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) made national headlines by dramatically announcing his retirement on the U.S. Senate floor. Flake focused his speech on the erratic behavior of President Donald...
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Exxon Refinery Catches Fire Day After Government Settles Over Pollution From...
By Julie Dermansky Early morning skies Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were alight from a fire that started around 2:30 a.m. at an ExxonMobil refinery. The blaze, though contained before the sun...
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Climate Denier Lamar Smith: Geoengineering Can Curb Impacts of Climate Change
By Steve Horn Geoengineering, hailed in some circles as a potential techno-fix to the climate change crisis, has taken a step closer to going mainstream. The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and...
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The Federal Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Is a Bipartisan Success Story, Which...
By Ben Jervey As the House and Senate develop their respective versions of a tax reform bill, the $7,500 federal electric vehicle (EV) tax credit is positioned to be a potential bargaining chip. The...
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Here's the Teacher-Friendly Antidote to Heartland Institute's Anti-Science...
By Ashley Braun On a Monday morning at the end of October, Rob Ross asked a group of Earth scientists and educators a question: How many of them had received copies of the Heartland Institute book Why...
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Study: Babies With Low Birth Weights More Likely Near Pennsylvania Fracking...
By Steve Horn A new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that babies born within two miles of sites of fracking for natural gas in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale basin are...
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Definers Public Affairs, Group Known for Stalking and Harassing Climate...
By Graham Readfearn A Republican-aligned research group with links to a campaign to stalk and intimidate environmental groups, journalists and campaigners has been handed a $120,000 contract to help...
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U.S. Bank Quietly Joins $4B Deal With Dakota Access Owner After Declaring End...
By Sharon Kelly At a shareholder meeting this past spring, U.S. Bank announced it would be the first large American bank to completely stop issuing loans for oil and gas pipeline construction...
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FERC, Which Rejected 2 Gas Pipelines Out of 400 Since 1999, to Review...
By Steve Horn The new chairman for the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Kevin McIntyre, says the agency plans to review its permitting process and procedures for natural gas pipelines...
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Mexico's Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline...
By Steve Horn Since Mexico privatized its oil and gas resources in 2013, border-crossing pipelines including those owned by Sempra Energy and TransCanada have come under intense scrutiny and legal...
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Pennsylvania Suspends Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction
By Sharon Kelly Pennsylvania suspended permits for Sunoco Pipeline on Wednesday, LP 's $2.5 billion Mariner East 2 pipeline project, after finding that the company committed "egregious and willful...
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Anti-Regulation Law Favored by Kochs Could Nix Environmental Safeguards in...
By Steve Horn The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty ( WILL ) has sued Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers for what it alleges was a state education agency's violation of an...
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EPA Rule Change Would Expose Teenagers to Highly Toxic Chemicals
By Farron Cousins The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) is taking aim at two rules designed to prevent exposure to toxic chemicals by workers under the age of 18. The agency has filed...
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New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and...
By Sharon Kelly Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal . In 2019, more than a...
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Fracking Waste Lawsuit Highlights Dangerous Trend of Corporations Targeting...
By Simon Davis-Cohen In early January, a federal judge ordered the nonprofit law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pay $52,000 to an oil and gas exploration company for...
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Climate Denial Group Linked to Trump Admin Is Funding 'Research' on Sea...
By Graham Readfearn A climate science denial group with links to President Trump 's administration has been funding work to sow doubt that low-lying islands in the Pacific are at risk from rising sea...
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Washington Governor Inslee Rejects Major Oil-by-Rail Project
By Justin Mikulka On Jan. 29, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee rejected a permit required for Tesoro-Savage to build the Vancouver Energy oil-by-rail facility, the largest such project in the nation, at the...
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As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline...
By Steve Horn The Iowa Senate has advanced a bill which critics say could lead to the criminalization of pipeline protests, which are being cast as "terrorist activities." Dakota Access pipeline owner...
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New Technology Could Turn Tar Sands Oil Into 'Pucks' for Less Hazardous...
By Justin Mikulka A new technology has the potential to transform the transportation of tars sands oil . Right now, the already thick and slow-flowing oil, known as bitumen, has to be diluted with a...
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