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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry
By Justin Mikulka
on
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   In 2019, I think it's safe to say that humans are ca...
us/Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035
By Sharon Kelly
on
There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. ...
us/Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month
By Julie Dermansky
on
A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can ...
us/Following Pushback, Chinese-owned Chemical Giant Pulls Plug on Massive Plastics Project in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
By Julie Dermansky
on
Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley....
us/Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants
By Sharon Kelly
on
For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from m...
us/Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong
By Justin Mikulka
on
Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has released an ambitious climate proposal, one which champions of the status quo were quick to criticize. One line of attack, coming from...
us/How an Application for Propane Fracking Attempts to Circumvent New York’s Fracking Ban
By Justin Mikulka
on
Four years after New York announced the state was banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Tioga Energy Partners, LLC has filed an application with the state to frack for natural gas, but there's a...
us/Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?
By Justin Nobel
on
In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remai...
uk/Residents Lament 'Profound Social Impacts' of Ongoing Problems at Exxon's Mossmorran Chemicals Plant
By Mike Small
on
The Mossmorran plant in Fife, Scotland has been shut down for a month over safety fears due to unplanned flaring.  Plant operator ExxonMobil notified the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SE...
Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study
By Sharon Kelly
on
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, accordi...

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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
on

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   In 2019, I think it's safe to say that humans are ca...
us/Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035
BySharon Kelly
on

There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. ...
us/Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month
ByJulie Dermansky
on

A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can ...
us/Following Pushback, Chinese-owned Chemical Giant Pulls Plug on Massive Plastics Project in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley....
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants
BySharon Kelly
on

For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from m...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has released an ambitious climate proposal, one which champions of the status quo were quick to criticize. One line of attack, coming from...
us/How an Application for Propane Fracking Attempts to Circumvent New York’s Fracking Ban
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Four years after New York announced the state was banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Tioga Energy Partners, LLC has filed an application with the state to frack for natural gas, but there's a...
us/Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?
ByJustin Nobel
on

In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remai...
uk/Residents Lament 'Profound Social Impacts' of Ongoing Problems at Exxon's Mossmorran Chemicals Plant
ByMike Small
on

The Mossmorran plant in Fife, Scotland has been shut down for a month over safety fears due to unplanned flaring.  Plant operator ExxonMobil notified the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SE...
Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study
BySharon Kelly
on

Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, accordi...