Sharon Kelly is an attorney and investigative reporter based in Pennsylvania. She was previously a senior correspondent covering energy and antitrust at The Capitol Forum and, prior to that, she reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other print and online publications.
If built, the plastics plant would pump air pollutants into surrounding communities and contribute more to climate change than three coal power plants. Corps announcement deals significant blow to project's backers.
ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute were top spenders in a $9.6 million election-year fossil fuel marketing blitz targeting U.S. Facebook users.
Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and major labor group AFL-CIO are behind the โblueprintโ for a multi-billion dollar system to transport captured CO2 โ and offer a lifeline to fossil fuel plants.
But FERCโs business-as-usual approach to fossil fuel projects during the climate crisis looks increasingly shaky, casting new doubt on the industryโs prospects.
The so-called "Green Nobel Prize" recognizes the environmental justice efforts of Lavigne in her quest to prevent further polluting industry from coming to her region of Louisiana.
ExxonMobil says a 9 billion barrel oilfield off the low-lying South American nationโs coast could soon outpace Permian production.
Despite talk of an energy transition and a wave of fossil fuel bankruptcies, big bank CEOs described plans to continue business with beleaguered fossil fuel industries.
ExxonMobil, Dow, Barclays, and more top lists in a new report ranking the companies behind the single-use plastic crisis.
Where itโs no longer credible to deny climate change, the fossil fuel giant puts the focus on โriskโ and blame on consumers, in echo of tobacco industry PR, researchers find.
For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.
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