Exxon Mobil to reduce methane emissions at 1,000 Permian Basin sites

Irving oil major Exxon Mobil is testing new equipment to reduce methane emissions at 1,000 sites in the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

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Suit blaming OUC for contamination moves forward

A federal lawsuit blaming Orlando's electric utility and home builders for coal-related contamination of east Orange County neighborhoods is a major step closer to trial with a judge's order.

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Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year, study shows

'Digging up coal is making less and less business sense, but it's awful impact on the planet will only decrease if it's fully consigned to history,' says Friends of the Earth.

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Trump's OPEC gambit exposes folly of Arctic drilling

As Trump now pleads with OPEC to curb global oil production, he should be pausing his administration’s rush to lease off America’s public lands and waters to oil companies. Instead, the rush to lease new lands is picking up speed, threatening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Coal companies seek to cut tax that supports Black Lung Disability Trust Fund

The nation’s coal companies, citing the economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, want to roll back their payments to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. That would leave the federal government to pick up the tab for 25,000 ailing miners.

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Oil and gas industry is exploiting a crisis

These are difficult times. Most of us are sacrificing to protect ourselves, our families and our communities from COVID-19. Unfortunately, there are others who are using this crisis as cover to further their own exploitative agendas.

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Chile steps up

Chile, which presided over the last round of climate talks, has joined only a handful of nations by publishing a more ambitious climate action plan for coming years.

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Coronavirus: Air pollution plummets 30% in Northeast US amid lockdowns

Despite temporary short-term benefits from the air pollution drop in the U.S. and across the world, scientists warn that pollution levels will rebound once coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

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Rising urban space demands squeeze out farmers

More people than ever now live in cities. Their growing urban space demands devour farmland, bad news for tomorrow's hungry world.

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Ecuadorian children bring case against government

Nine Ecuadorian children take state-owned Petro Amazonas to court over air pollution from gas flares.

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Bill McKibben: Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry?

As a result of the virus, we may well have already seen the peak demand for petroleum on planet Earth.

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Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic

After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it’s easy to see how epidemiology came next.

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Shale Gas Was in Trouble, Then Came the Coronavirus - Pittsburgh Quarterly

Shale gas produced by Appalachian region wells slipped 1.8 percent during the last three months. But what seems like a slight decline warns of a coming storm for an industry that has seen production rise consistently—and sometimes dramatically—every year since the gas-rich Marcellus play drew companies to southwestern Pennsylvania in droves more than a decade … Shale Gas Was in Trouble, Then Came the Coronavirus Read More »

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DEP, CNX agree to $180K stream restoration to resolve sedimentation violations

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and CNX have agreed to a settlement for several erosion violations at gas drilling sites in Washington and Greene counties.

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Pope Francis: Coronavirus pandemic could be nature's response to climate crisis

Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.

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Pollution made the pandemic worse, but lockdowns clean the sky

Even before the coronavirus, air pollution killed seven million people a year. Will today's cleaner air inspire us to do better?

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The UAE is investing $100 million in indoor farming

With little water, scorching temperatures, and not much arable land, the UAE currently imports 80% of its food. Can it go local?

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Grocers seek veto of plastic bag tax, saying reusable bags pose coronavirus risk

The virus stays infectious for days on some surfaces, but an expert doubts risk from bags is high.

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Trump plays cat-and-mouse game with US oil industry by flip-flopping on import tariffs

Tariffs on foreign crude would hurt some U.S. oil producers, but help others.

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Transit has been battered by coronavirus. What's ahead may be worse

“The number of scenarios that we have to plan for is staggering.”

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A.I. is helping scientists understand an ocean's worth of data

Machine-learning applications are proving to be especially useful to the scientific community studying the planet’s largest bodies of water.

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In Alaska’s North, COVID-19 has not stopped the Trump Administration’s quest to drill for oil

The president’s plans for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may fall flat. But a massive ConocoPhillips project is moving full speed ahead.

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Does Big Oil need big government to survive?

For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.

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Number of workers at B.C.'s Site C dam project rises, as some call for shutdown over COVID-19

The jobsite and worker's camp is currently housing about 1,000 people.

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Vaccinating the global financial system against climate crisis

Our financial system risks sleepwalking into a climate catastrophe unless we transition to sustainable investments and climate resilient economic growth.

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Inside clean energy's coronavirus job crash

Hundreds of thousands of people in clean energy jobs have been idled and furloughed.

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Wenden residents unite behind “No Smelter Here” campaign

Activists are fighting to block a proposed polluting smelter plant in Arizona.

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Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Illegal gold mining led to deforestation of thousands of hectares of forests inside indigenous reserves in the Brazilian Amazon, according to new satellite image analysis by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project.

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'We're the virus.' How eco-fascism hurts climate action

Sharp declines in emissions from the coronavirus pandemic are a vivid illustration of the challenge of addressing climate change, rather than a silver lining, according to experts.

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Race, pollution and the coronavirus

New statistics point to a troubling story of vulnerability in communities of color.

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Kathleen Schuler: Now, more than ever, is the time to adopt clean car standards, not allow more pollution

Hundreds of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals are on the front lines in hospitals across Minnesota treating COVID-19 patients, who are fighting for breath and life. At the same time, the federal government is in the process of pulling back life and breath-saving standards for vehicle emissions.

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The power plant of the future is right in your home

If we want more renewable energy, our grids will have to manage themselves. A small experiment in Colorado is lighting the way.

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D.C. Circuit restores part of Obama-era emissions rule

The Trump administration went too far when it completely scrapped Obama-era climate rules that were only partly struck down during an earlier round of litigation, a federal appeals court said today.

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Can a big Western road trip be done in an electric car?

Electric vehicles are becoming popular among the environmentally conscious, but are they realistic for road trips to more remote destinations? I took my Tesla to Utah to find out.

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PA: Rep. Mike Doyle picks up Sierra Club endorsement, but challenger says he never received a questionnaire

Doyle's primary election opponent, Jerry Dickinson, says he's disappointed with the Allegheny Group's endorsement and feels the process was not fair to his campaign.