Supreme Court Refuses to Give Big Oil a “Get Out of Jail Free” Card State and local climate liability lawsuits will be heard by state courts By Jason Mark April 25, 2023 In this story: Supreme Court, environmental justice, oil, climate change
Environmental Groups Sue Interior Department to Halt Oil and Gas Lease Sale in the Gulf of Mexico The upcoming sale was demanded by Senator Joe Manchin as a condition of passing the Inflation Reduction Act By Osha Gray Davidson March 7, 2023 In this story: oil, natural gas, drilling, offshore drilling
TVA Reaches an Inflection Point In the past three months, the company has issued rolling blackouts, invested in gas plants, and blown up three smokestacks without adequate public preparation By Austyn Gaffney February 18, 2023 In this story: utility rates, oil, fracked gas, clean energy
Will the Biden Administration Greenlight ConocoPhillips’ “Carbon Bomb”? The Alaska project, known as Willow, would be the biggest oil and gas development on federal land By Adam Federman February 16, 2023 In this story: oil, natural gas, climate change
Biden Suggests a Windfall Profits Tax on Fossil Fuel War-Time Profiteering What a proposed tax on excessive oil profits would do By Nick Cunningham November 3, 2022 In this story: oil, fracked gas
The Dark Side of the Inflation Reduction Act For all of its good, the new climate legislation also mandates oil and gas drilling on public lands By Lindsey Botts October 10, 2022 In this story: fracked gas, oil, climate change, Inflation Reduction Act
House Committee Investigates the Role of PR Firms in Spreading Climate Disinformation The oil industry’s long history of disinformation is well documented, but PR firms have operated “behind the scenes” for decades By Nick Cunningham September 18, 2022 In this story: oil, climate change
Mario Versus the Anthropocene Video games, empathy, and growing up in Cancer Alley By Philip Kiefer May 2, 2022 In this story: technology, environmental justice, oil, art, dirty energy
Big Oil in the Mackinac Straits Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen Native American sovereignty supersedes Big Oil’s authority—and it’s time the industry accepted it By Hadassah GreenSky April 1, 2022 In this story: indigenous communities, oil, Line 5
No Blood OR Oil A rare political alignment offers an unmatched moment to finally break our addiction to fossil fuels By Jason Mark March 12, 2022 In this story: oil, fossil fuels, fracked gas