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Fossil Fuels
climate change
Dec. 14, 2023
The New Global Climate Deal Is Mostly Hot Air Fixing the climate requires cheap clean energy, not cheap words.
climate change
Aug. 28, 2023
What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
leaving no trace
Feb. 7, 2023
The Big MOOP at Burning Man A geothermal-energy project has the organization behind the eight-day rave facing off against the Bureau of Land Management.
Get Ready to Be Propanefluenced It’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
the money game
May 16, 2022
How Red States Are Trying to Snuff Out Green Investing Numerous states are launching a messy preemptive strike against so-called ESG efforts by the financial sector to move away from fossil fuels.
energy policy
Mar. 13, 2022
Here’s How Biden Can Lower Gas Prices Without undermining his climate goals.
environment
June 10, 2021
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled The developer is ending the controversial pipeline project, which would have pumped 800,000 barrels of Canadian crude oil to Nebraska per day.
Stopgap Spending Deal Ends Government Shutdown Threat Pelosi gave in on farm aid Trump is distributing in exchange for some concessions, relegating spending disputes to a lame-duck session.
life after warming
Feb. 21, 2020
Jeff Bezos’s $10 Billion Climate Pledge Is Actually Tiny Judged by the standards of the climate crisis, the sum is, practically speaking, almost nothing.
Pruitt Flies First Class to Avoid Dealing With the Riffraff in Coach The EPA administrator not only thinks like an oil exec: he travels like one.
A Few Republican Senators Helped Save an Obama-Era Climate Rule It prevents the venting of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — at drilling sites.
Methane Emissions Appear Worse Than Anyone Thought A new study says the fossil-fuel industry is producing up to 60 percent more methane than previously reported.
Fossil Fuels
June 2, 2014