Black, Latino and low income residents have disproportionately high exposure to oil and gas wells, new research shows.
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.
Activists get a victory in their fight to protect South L.A. residents from a Catholic Archdiocese-owned oil drill site.
The Advanced Technology Energy Act was killed over the weekend following objections from tribal leaders.
Companies pledge to cut emissions caused by their production, while opposing measures to reduce emissions from the use of their products.
An effort to resurrect Texas’ Chapter 313 tax abatement is underway in the Legislature.
After industry lobbyists halted the oil and gas well safe-distance law, their well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation.
Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well wastewater.
In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.
Lawmakers will have to resist inertia and oil and gas influence as the climate crisis worsens.
Questions over whether cold weather in New Mexico an ’emergency.’
Oil companies may end up relying on environmentally questionable crop-based fuels.
Proposed legislation would dramatically change New Mexico’s principal oil and gas law.
New Mexico’s legislative session, funded by oil and gas, promises fireworks.
Process will set financial assurance plan for all producers’ wells.