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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...
uk/Comment: Why was the Blackout Used to Attack Renewables? Because Some Media Still Have an Anti-Climate Action Agenda
By Mike Small
on
England recently experienced its most severe blackout in more than a decade, leading to a cacophony of calls from the usual suspects to scrap windfarms and abandon plans to turn the country’s elect...
us/Adani Beware: Coal Is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable
By Guest
on
By John Quiggin, The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months...
us/Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
By Justin Mikulka
on
In early 2018 when major financial publications like the Wall Street Journal were predicting a bright and profitable future for the fracking industry, DeSmog began a series detailing the failing bu...
us/Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
By Sharon Kelly
on
On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derri...
us/Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
By Guest
on
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator. More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildli...
us/Fracking's Dirty Water Problem Is Getting Much Bigger
By Justin Mikulka
on
While fracking for oil and gas in the U.S. has contributed to record levels of fossil fuel production, a critical part of that story also involves water. An ongoing battle for this precious resourc...
us/New Concerns Raised by Opponents Delay Wanhua’s $1.25 Billion Plastic Complex in Louisiana
By Julie Dermansky
on
“Look at what is coming into the Parish, instead of saying ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’—it is time to say ‘No,’” Pastor Harry Joseph told the St. James Parish Council on July 24. He implored councilmembers t...

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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...
Opinion
uk/Comment: Why was the Blackout Used to Attack Renewables? Because Some Media Still Have an Anti-Climate Action Agenda
ByMike Small
on

England recently experienced its most severe blackout in more than a decade, leading to a cacophony of calls from the usual suspects to scrap windfarms and abandon plans to turn the country’s elect...
us/Adani Beware: Coal Is on the Road to Becoming Completely Uninsurable
ByGuest
on

By John Quiggin, The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months...
us/Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
on

In early 2018 when major financial publications like the Wall Street Journal were predicting a bright and profitable future for the fracking industry, DeSmog began a series detailing the failing bu...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
BySharon Kelly
on

On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derri...
us/Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
ByGuest
on

By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator. More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildli...
us/Fracking's Dirty Water Problem Is Getting Much Bigger
ByJustin Mikulka
on

While fracking for oil and gas in the U.S. has contributed to record levels of fossil fuel production, a critical part of that story also involves water. An ongoing battle for this precious resourc...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/New Concerns Raised by Opponents Delay Wanhua’s $1.25 Billion Plastic Complex in Louisiana
ByJulie Dermansky
on

“Look at what is coming into the Parish, instead of saying ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’—it is time to say ‘No,’” Pastor Harry Joseph told the St. James Parish Council on July 24. He implored councilmembers t...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley