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Montana Is a Frontier for Deep Carbon Storage, and the Controversies Surrounding the Potential Climate Solution

By Najifa Farhat — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The Big Sky State hopes to get federal incentives to store captured carbon under public lands, but for many residents near the project, the threat is greater than the opportunity.

By Najifa Farhat

A new project aims to take carbon dioxide pollution, likely from two natural gas processing plants in Wyoming, and store it thousands of feet underground beneath the wide-open prairies of southeastern Montana.

Baltimore Judge Tosses Climate Case, Hands Win to Big Oil

By Aman Azhar — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:05:00 +0000

Environmental groups say judges across the country believe cases like Baltimore's should hold oil companies accountable in state courts for environmental harm.

By Aman Azhar

In a first of its kind decision, a Maryland judge on Wednesday tossed Baltimore City’s climate suit against major oil giants on the grounds that it is not the role of the state courts to address a global issue like climate change.

Sen. Britt of Alabama Confronted on Her Ties to ‘Big Oil’

By Lee Hedgepeth — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:46:14 +0000

A Sunrise movement activist approached the senator in the halls of Congress and asked about her campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry. Britt later thanked the activist for helping promote her bedrock belief in “energy dominance.”

By Lee Hedgepeth

Amalia Hochman isn’t from Alabama, but she’s willing to fight for it anyway.

Peering Inside the Pandora’s Box of Oil and Gas Waste

By Kiley Bense — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:10:00 +0000

A new book investigates what happens to the mountains of waste generated by the American oil and gas industry.

By Kiley Bense

In 1971, scientists gathered at a symposium to examine the practice of getting rid of oil and gas wastewater by injecting it into porous rock formations deep underground. Called injection wells, they are now widely used by the industry to dispose of the liquid byproducts when an oil or gas well is drilled, which can contain salts, metals and radioactive elements. At the conference, experts speculated about the long-term consequences for the earth and human health.

Texas Opens More Coastal Waters for Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

By Dylan Baddour — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:05:00 +0000

The Gulf Coast is poised to be a major hub for underground disposal of greenhouse gas to mitigate climate change, but questions remain over who will fund it long-term.

By Dylan Baddour

Texas has opened more than a million acres of offshore, state-owned waters for proposals from companies to inject greenhouse gas underground for permanent disposal as a means to mitigate climate change.

Federal Commission OKs Largest LNG Terminal in US; Local Advocates Expected to Sue

By Pam Radtke, Floodlight — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Whether the Louisiana project is ultimately built may hinge on federal study of climate and economic impact of the burgeoning liquefied natural gas industry.

By Pam Radtke, Floodlight

This story was originally published by Floodlight.

A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial

By Hannah Chanatry — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:45:00 +0000

The Mountain Valley Pipeline entered service this week. At a public forum held two weeks ago, a panel of judges called it a violation of the rights of nature and the rights of Indigenous people.

By Hannah Chanatry

In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction equipment, mud-brown water and flooding.

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:40:12 +0000

Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign investors to sue governments for billions. A new report highlights this international legal system harms Indigenous Latin Americans.

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

In the early 2000s, the Peruvian government granted a Canadian silver mining company a license to begin exploratory operations in Indigenous Aymara territories. The project divided communities, with some worrying about potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems they relied on for sustenance and with which their culture was entwined.

Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta: a Native Elder Fights Fossil Fuel Companies in Texas

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour — Mon, 13 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

An industrial buildout is erasing the last traces of an ancient world, but the Carrizo/Comecrudo, unrecognized and unknown, continue to resist.

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

This story was published in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Observer.

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:10:00 +0000

Republican attorneys general from 23 states have asked EPA officials to stop working to address environmental harms traced to systemic racism.

By Victoria St. Martin

RESERVE, La.—For Robert Taylor, it should have been a moment of celebration. For 60 years, he has watched with apprehension as the curved and winding pipes of the nation’s only chloroprene rubber plant discharged plumes of exhaust over this stretch of the Louisiana bayou long known as “Cancer Alley.”