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us/Analysis: Some Fracking Companies Are Admitting Shale Was a Bad Bet — Others Are Not
By Justin Mikulka
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Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly. But the question is whether the industry will lis...
us/Pennsylvania Families Exposed to Unusually High Levels of Oil and Gas Industry Chemicals, Report Finds
By Sharon Kelly
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A groundbreaking four-part report by Environmental Health News (EHN) offers new scientific evidence that living near oil and gas development can expose people to a wide array of hazardous and carci...
New IEA Data Shows World on Path to Resume 'Carbon-Intensive Business-as-Usual'
By Guest
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By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams Following warnings that the coronavirus-triggered drop in planet-warming emissions would be short-lived without structural changes, the International Energy Agenc...
Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments
By Justin Mikulka
on
Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its books. While that was a shocking number from the oil major, reality proved to be eve...
us/Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes
By Sharon Kelly
on
As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media. Politicians like fo...
us/'No Safe Amount': Environmentalists Sound Alarm Over Texas Refineries' Release of Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Pollutants During Storm
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By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as...
us/Fire at Oil and Gas Waste Site Raises Safety Concerns Around Possible Radioactive Accidents
By Justin Nobel
on
On the evening of February 1, a fire erupted at a West Virginia facility that processes radioactive oilfield waste generated from nearby fracking operations, injuring two workers. A video of the fi...
us/Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is
By Justin Mikulka
on
Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing the...
us/Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report
By Nick Cunningham
on
The decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has ...
Shell’s 'Delusional' Net Zero Strategy Commits $8 Billion to Fossil Fuels
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Shell’s new net zero strategy is “grotesque” and includes an “impossible” reliance on tree-planting, campaigners have claimed. The oil major today revealed an “accelerated” strategy to reduce oil ...

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us/Analysis: Some Fracking Companies Are Admitting Shale Was a Bad Bet — Others Are Not
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly. But the question is whether the industry will lis...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Pennsylvania Families Exposed to Unusually High Levels of Oil and Gas Industry Chemicals, Report Finds
BySharon Kelly
on

A groundbreaking four-part report by Environmental Health News (EHN) offers new scientific evidence that living near oil and gas development can expose people to a wide array of hazardous and carci...
New IEA Data Shows World on Path to Resume 'Carbon-Intensive Business-as-Usual'
ByGuest
on

By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams Following warnings that the coronavirus-triggered drop in planet-warming emissions would be short-lived without structural changes, the International Energy Agenc...
Analysis
Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its books. While that was a shocking number from the oil major, reality proved to be eve...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes
BySharon Kelly
on

As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media. Politicians like fo...
us/'No Safe Amount': Environmentalists Sound Alarm Over Texas Refineries' Release of Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Pollutants During Storm
ByGuest
on

By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as...
us/Fire at Oil and Gas Waste Site Raises Safety Concerns Around Possible Radioactive Accidents
ByJustin Nobel
on

On the evening of February 1, a fire erupted at a West Virginia facility that processes radioactive oilfield waste generated from nearby fracking operations, injuring two workers. A video of the fi...
us/Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing the...
us/Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report
ByNick Cunningham
on

The decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has ...
Shell’s 'Delusional' Net Zero Strategy Commits $8 Billion to Fossil Fuels
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Shell’s new net zero strategy is “grotesque” and includes an “impossible” reliance on tree-planting, campaigners have claimed. The oil major today revealed an “accelerated” strategy to reduce oil ...