Is Coal Ash Killing This Oklahoma Town?
The people of Bokoshe, Okla., breathe coal ash being dumped nearby every day. They believe it's causing widespread health problems and a rise in cancer deaths.Cancer has ravaged the families of...
View ArticleTexas Officials Have Photos of Flood-Related Oil Spills, but No Record of Any...
Massive oil spills during Texas' flooding in 2015 were captured by aerial photographs, but were not recorded, or treated, as spills by the state. One of the apparent oil spils that occurred during...
View ArticleExxon Sues a Second Attorney General To Fight Off Climate Fraud Probe
The company asks a federal court in Texas to block the investigation by Massachusetts prosecutors, citing its constitutional rights."The First Amendment does not protect false and misleading statements...
View Article'Threat Map' Aims to Highlight the Worst of Oil and Gas Air Pollution
Two activist groups used government data to show 12.4 million people in the U.S. live within a half-mile of an oil and gas facility—and its pollution.An oil field in Long Beach, Calif. sits in the...
View ArticleAntarctica’s CO2 Level Tops 400 PPM for First Time in Perhaps 4 Million Years
Greenhouse gas emissions have 'changed our planet to the very poles,' researchers say in announcing the milestone reading. The British Antarctic Survey's Clean Air Sector laboratory measures...
View ArticleQ&A: This Professor Talks Climate Change in the Oil Industry's Training Ground
Many of his students go on to careers in oil and gas extraction in a world that needs to keep fossil fuels in the ground.University of Texas at Dallas professor John Geissman at work on a coring...
View ArticleOil Industry Satellite for Measuring Climate Pollution Set to Launch
Group backed by Canada's government and major oil producers hopes GHGSat more accurately reads methane and carbon emissions in Alberta and beyond.A large excavator loads a truck with oil sands at a...
View ArticleWithout Emissions Cuts, Summer Heat Will Get Even Deadlier
New study shows dangerously hot summers will become the norm across much of the globe unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced.Heat waves, like the one that baked India this year, will...
View ArticleProtesters Arrested for Blocking Railroad in Call for Oil-by-Rail Moratorium
Arrests come as Oregon's governor and others urge the Obama administration to ban oil trains in that state after a fiery crash in the Columbia River gorge.A group of protesters block an oil train in...
View ArticleFor Virgin Islands, Being on the Frontlines of Climate Impacts Is Grounds for...
Facing an existential threat from climate change helps explain why the territory's AG is investigating ExxonMobil's record of discrediting climate science.A man walks through the debris after a...
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