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The cost to clean up New Mexico’s oil and gas industry? $8 billion.
The state has secured just 2 percent of that total from oil and gas operators.
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Will the Ford F-150 Lightning turn Middle America onto EVs?
Picture a new type of EV driver: one who rolls around in a 400-horsepower pickup truck.
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How natural gas propaganda made it into elementary classrooms in deep blue America
The incident is the latest example of fossil fuel interests attempting to influence science education in public classrooms.
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![Side by side are two pictures, one of the petroglyphs and prairie and one of two wind turbines on a prairie.]()
A clean energy proposal near a sacred Indigenous site divides a Minnesota community
The wind and solar project threatens a 7,000-year-old spiritual site.
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ExxonMobil found the real reason for the climate crisis: You
How oil companies used language to make us blame ourselves.
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America is facing unprecedented utility debt. Here’s what might help.
Unpaid power, gas, and water bills “reflect the grinding level of poverty in the United States.”
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Renewable energy didn’t just survive 2020 — it thrived
But don't mistake projected growth in renewables for emissions reductions.
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Why electric cars are cheaper if you’re rich
What is the true cost of electric vehicles? If you can afford the up-front costs, you might just be surprised.
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A Big Oil project in Africa threatens fragile Okavango region
A Canadian company is drilling exploratory wells in Namibia for what could be a major oil and gas find. Local residents and conservationists fear the project could use up scarce water supplies and cause widespread ecological disruption downstream in the world-renowned Okavango Delta.
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This blanket permit makes it easier to build pipelines. Advocates are suing to stop it.
How the legal fight against an arcane permit could throw a snag in major pipeline projects.
