Oil and gas production has directly and indirectly generated record amounts of hard-to-dispose-of oilfield wastewater, raised the specter of $1.6 billion in cleanup costs for abandoned wells and fouled the air in the oilfields.
For the first time in 30 years, the state’s utility commission will have a Democratic majority — and they’re targeting Georgia Power’s costly fossil gas buildout.
TotalEnergies has won plaudits for voluntary steps to tackle the planet-warning gas. So why does it fund moves to delay, dilute, or dismantle regulation?
Lawmakers agreed with a Public Service Commission rule that would keep a requirement for electrical generation capacity on coal-fired plants as a goal, rather than a mandate.
Going digital is often assumed to be a modern, efficient strategy that will save energy and resources. Thirty years of data from the world’s largest economies suggest the energy needed to power them has so far outweighed the savings.
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience, and cowardice, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
Bill Gates owns a dominant stake in Republic Services, America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make the company live up to his own climate principles, ProPublica has found.
Texas now issues permits for companies to store carbon dioxide underground; East Texas residents fear safety risks, and skeptics doubt the climate benefits.
