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How the necessary work of cleaning up can make an even bigger mess.
The Justice Department is suing a major petrochemical company, arguing that its chemical plant in Reserve, Louisiana, poses an unacceptable risk to the health and welfare of the area’s majority-Black population.
More than 10 million Ecuadorians voted last year to ban oil operations in part of the Amazon rainforest. But heavy crude has continued to flow from the region, which is home to uncontacted Indigenous families.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
Landry has surrounded himself with former fossil fuel executives — and he has targeted the state’s climate change task force.
It's the strongest cyclone to hit the U.S. territory in 20 years.
The company behind Keystone XL plans to build an extension to a natural gas pipeline off the coast of Mexico, threatening coral reefs and local livelihoods.
Nuclear experts aren’t sure the company could manage to make small reactors both cost-effective and scalable.
The rush to meet AI's energy needs is sure to rely on natural gas, raising worries about air pollution in the state's urban corridor.
