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us/LNG, Plastics and Other Gas Industry Plans Would Add Climate Pollution Equal to 50 New Coal Plants
By Sharon Kelly
on
This week, plans to build one of the world’s largest plastics and petrochemical plants in St. James Parish, Lousiana — the heart of the state’s notorious Cancer Alley — inched forward as Lousiana a...
us/Louisiana Landowners Appeal Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Right to Seize Their Land After Trespassing
By Dana Drugmand
on
A Louisiana appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday, January 8 in a case brought by Louisiana landowners against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company that illegally trespassed and began pipeline ...
us/Breaking: Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry Rejoins Board of Dakota Access Owner, Energy Transfer
By Sharon Kelly
on
Former Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who resigned from his cabinet-level post effective last month, has joined the board of directors of the general partner of Energy Transfer L...
us/From the BP Spill to a Disappearing Island: A Decade of Covering Climate and the Environment in Louisiana
By Julie Dermansky
on
What happens in Louisiana doesn’t stay in Louisiana. The state's role in the oil and gas industry impacts both global markets and global climate change. It’s also on the front line of climate chang...
us/The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem
By Justin Mikulka
on
While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according t...
us/As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs
By Justin Mikulka
on
In over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S. public, b...
us/While Talking up Climate Action, Oil Majors Eye Argentina’s Shale Reserves
By Nick Cunningham
on
Even as international climate negotiators tried to make progress at the UN climate summit in Madrid in early December, fossil fuel production and consumption has continued to rise, and major oil co...
us/Energy Analysts Deliver More Bad News for US Fracking Industry's Business Model
By Justin Mikulka
on
This month, the energy consulting firm Wood MacKenzie gave an online presentation that basically debunked the whole business model of the shale industry. In this webinar, which explored the declin...
COP25: Over 40 Gulf State Delegates Are Current or Former Employees of Fossil Fuel Companies
By Rich Collett-White
on
Gulf states have sent at least 42 current or former employees of the fossil fuel industry to the UN climate summit in Madrid as part of their official delegations, DeSmog analysis shows. More than...
us/Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale
By Nick Cunningham
on
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez takes office in the midst of an economic crisis. Like his predecessor, he has made fracking a centerpiece of the country’s economic revival. Argentina has s...

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us/LNG, Plastics and Other Gas Industry Plans Would Add Climate Pollution Equal to 50 New Coal Plants
BySharon Kelly
on

This week, plans to build one of the world’s largest plastics and petrochemical plants in St. James Parish, Lousiana — the heart of the state’s notorious Cancer Alley — inched forward as Lousiana a...
us/Louisiana Landowners Appeal Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Right to Seize Their Land After Trespassing
ByDana Drugmand
on

A Louisiana appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday, January 8 in a case brought by Louisiana landowners against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company that illegally trespassed and began pipeline ...
us/Breaking: Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry Rejoins Board of Dakota Access Owner, Energy Transfer
BySharon Kelly
on

Former Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who resigned from his cabinet-level post effective last month, has joined the board of directors of the general partner of Energy Transfer L...
us/From the BP Spill to a Disappearing Island: A Decade of Covering Climate and the Environment in Louisiana
ByJulie Dermansky
on

What happens in Louisiana doesn’t stay in Louisiana. The state's role in the oil and gas industry impacts both global markets and global climate change. It’s also on the front line of climate chang...
us/The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem
ByJustin Mikulka
on

While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according t...
us/As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs
ByJustin Mikulka
on

In over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S. public, b...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/While Talking up Climate Action, Oil Majors Eye Argentina’s Shale Reserves
ByNick Cunningham
on

Even as international climate negotiators tried to make progress at the UN climate summit in Madrid in early December, fossil fuel production and consumption has continued to rise, and major oil co...
us/Energy Analysts Deliver More Bad News for US Fracking Industry's Business Model
ByJustin Mikulka
on

This month, the energy consulting firm Wood MacKenzie gave an online presentation that basically debunked the whole business model of the shale industry. In this webinar, which explored the declin...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
COP25: Over 40 Gulf State Delegates Are Current or Former Employees of Fossil Fuel Companies
ByRich Collett-White
on

Gulf states have sent at least 42 current or former employees of the fossil fuel industry to the UN climate summit in Madrid as part of their official delegations, DeSmog analysis shows. More than...
us/Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale
ByNick Cunningham
on

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez takes office in the midst of an economic crisis. Like his predecessor, he has made fracking a centerpiece of the country’s economic revival. Argentina has s...