This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. EPA budget cuts threaten to slow a long-overdue cleanup. Angie Hood grew up in a remote valley tucked along [...]
by Alison Rose Levy Though many see the Paris Accord as President Obama's shining moment for the environment, the plan to speed the construction of fossil fuel infrastructures cast a shadow over the US's well-publicized but halfhearted participation in the agreement. The trend has only continued under Trump. (Photo: David McNew / Getty Images) Like [...]
by Maddy Hayden Oil and gas spills in the state in 2016 were down 11 percent from the year before, according to the Center for Western Priorities, a nonpartisan conservation policy and advocacy group. The organization used data from the state’s Oil and Conservation Division, which documents spills and other mishaps that occur in oil [...]
Imagine the businessman Donald Trump putting his real estate up for sale when the market was near the bottom. That’s the equivalent of what President Trump is doing with the oil and gas on our public lands. His misguided move to increase production in a soft energy market is bad for government revenues, not necessary [...]
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke is filling his office with extractive industry insiders. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is three months into a review of 27 national monuments to determine whether they should be shrunk, abolished or left intact. Zinke’s review comes as he continues to fill his department with pro-industry officials and amid a broader push at the Interior Department [...]
This year, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, a body composed of 19 sovereign Pueblo nations, hosted a historic summit between the Pueblo governors and the president and vice-president of the Navajo Nation to focus attention on how all tribal nations in the Southwest can work together to protect sacred sites in the Greater Chaco [...]
A panel of judges grilled the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today on its approach to studying climate impacts from natural gas pipelines. The case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit centered on a project in the Southeast, but Judge Judith Rogers spent much of today's oral arguments airing broader [...]
Fracking and Health: Ask an Expert SAFE SETBACK DISTANCES In our latest podcast, TEDX asks: "How can we determine safe setback distances from oil and gas operations?" Hear answers from Dr. Marsha Haley, Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her concern over the proximity of wells to local schools led [...]
If you want to truly understand what’s happening in the energy industry, the best thing to do is to travel deep into the heart of American coal country, to Carbon County, Wyoming (yes, that’s a real place). The state produces most coal in the US, and Carbon County has long been known (and was named) [...]
BY JEREMY NICHOLS If you haven’t yet checked out our interactive map highlighting the threat of fracking in the Greater Chaco region, you should do so now. Because we just added a new layer to this map enabling you to take an interactive photo tour of the region, including of some of its protected ruins and other [...]