Mike Gaworecki

About

Mike Gaworecki is a San Francisco-based journalist who writes about energy, climate, and forest issues for DeSmogBlog and Mongabay.com. His writing has appeared on BillMoyers.com, Alternet, Treehugger, Change.org, Huffington Post, and more. He is also a novelist whose debut โ€œThe Mysticistโ€ came out via FreemadeSF inย 2014.

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With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, itโ€™s also pushing ...
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Regulators with the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) announced in Januaryย that they plan to halt oil and gas wastewater injection in 475 oil wells in the Golden Sta...
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Update 1/19/2017:ย Our Children's Trust, a legal NGO helping represent the youth case, posted that Rex Tillerson's deposition is being delayed while the case's lawyers meet to resolve aย dispute. Fo...
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Eleven cities from around the world were celebrated recentlyย in Mexico City at the C40 Cities Awards for their commitment to innovation in the fight against climate change. The eleven-year-old C40...
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The Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) released a video this week revealing the cozy relationship between the biomass industry and legislators like Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) who are push...
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A study by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey points to oil drilling operations as the likely culprit in some of the biggest earthquakes that hit Southern California in the early 20th centu...
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Are your Congressional representatives up for reelection this year? How much money have they taken from fossil fuelย interests this election cycle? And what about their opponents โ€” are they any bett...
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A new report from the Washington, D.C-based Environmental Action Center (EAC) on Californiaโ€™s underground injection program finds that oil industry wells in the state have been overpressurizing som...
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It took two and a half months after methane first started leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility on October 23, 2015 for the state of California to declare a state of emergency. By the tim...
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A court in Toronto will soon begin deliberating over whether or not to seize Chevron's Canadian assets in order to force the company to comply with an $9.5-billion judgement in Ecuador. The compan...