Climate Energy

Clean energy bonanza: Biden’s budget tries to undo Trump’s damage

The 'skinny budget' asks Congress for $14 billion to address the climate crisis.

Can a pipeline company defy a governor’s orders? Gretchen Whitmer is about to find out.

The ongoing battle between North America's largest mover of oil, Enbridge Energy, and the state of Michigan.

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells

How we calculated the size of the Southwest’s abandoned oil well problem

Using machine learning, we found that states are grossly undercounting orphan wells.

‘No teeth and no funding’: How regulators failed to police the oil industry

Thirty years of data show Texas and New Mexico officials struggled to identify and fine violators.

One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells

Unplugged wells could be quietly leaking millions of pounds of methane in West Texas.

Fighting pipelines to the last mile

In British Columbia, Native communities, activists, and local government are split over new pipelines and their environmental risks.

Ohio’s utility bribery scandal could cost the public billions more than previously thought

If not for HB6, Ohioans could avoid more than $2 billion in excess utility bills and $7 billion in health care costs, according to new research.

Has Eugene, Oregon, found a ‘superpower’ for climate action?

The city is eyeing changes to its natural gas contract to fund climate ambitions.

Why the internet fell for the ‘Voltswagen’ April Fools’ Day joke

The electric car craze made the Volkswagen's rebrand seem ... plausible.