After a deal last year kneecapped regulators’ ability to address the crisis of abandoned oil and gas wells, Dems aim to reset environmental law.
Lawsuit argues the state is not equally upholding environmental protections enshrined in its constitution.
The plan by Extraction would have led to horizontal drilling under hundreds of acres of scenic Boulder County lands purchased with taxpayer dollars.
Petroleum industry supports tax breaks for renewable energy projects but legislators refuse.
Homer City Generating Station has been used to delay environmental regulations. Could the infamous site become a symbol for the just transition?
Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations.
Critics call for removal of state agency’s economic mandate.
Low-income communities of color bear the pollution burden of California’s incentive-based dairy gas climate plan.
Effort to tighten rules on so-called forced pooling shows difficulty of reforms.
Proposed legislation would prohibit new fracking wells within 2,500 feet of an existing building or water well.
Gov. Newsom reneged on pledge to wind down fossil fuel refineries.
Up against a heavily Democratic Legislature, fossil fuel firms funnel cash to politicos they’ve previously ignored to win precious votes.
Record-shattering budget from oil and gas fuels a spending spree on everything except regulating oil and gas.
Changes at the New Mexico Environment Department could increase future prosecutions.
Before obtaining the required permits, Diversified Energy began installing cryptocurrency mining infrastructure on one of its thousands of well pads.
A tour of the Permian Basin highlights weak enforcement by state and federal agencies.
Lawmakers complain of last-second changes and a lack of transparency surrounding the reappropriation of $50 million in funding.
The Advanced Technology Energy Act was killed over the weekend following objections from tribal leaders.
An effort to resurrect Texas’ Chapter 313 tax abatement is underway in the Legislature.
The Advanced Energy Technology Act clearly echoes last year’s quartet of failed hydrogen bills that promoted public-private partnerships.