This account was actually initially released through The Guardian as well as is actually recreated listed below as component of the Climate Desk partnership. An elderly protection specialist has actually stopped collaborating with Shell after 11 years, indicting the nonrenewable energy developer in a bomb social video recording of inducing “excessive dangers” to the atmosphere. […]
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The fatal acid refineries hesitate to give up
Hydrofluoric acid may develop a lethal cloud of fuel that may take a trip for kilometers. At oil refineries across the country, a hazardous announcement is actually merely a collision away. This tale was actually released through Grist along with the heading The harmful acid refineries hesitate to stop on Apr 6, 2022.
Colorado has an abandoned oil well problem. Now it’s asking drillers to pay up.
When oil and gas companies are done extracting from a well, they’re supposed to plug it and clean it up: This prevents both physical hazards to wildlife and the environment and also a potentially alarming volume of planet-warming methane pollution. However, it’s not uncommon for an oil company to disappear before doing so, leaving the […]
How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’
This story is published in collaboration with Belt Magazine. On a warm morning in July of 2020, FBI agents and local sheriff’s deputies converged on a farmhouse just outside the tiny town of Glenford in central Ohio. They led away a blue-eyed man wearing a gray Carhartt T-shirt and baggy jeans. He was heavy around […]
Abandoned oil well counts are exploding — now that there’s money on the table
It’s long been an open secret that abandoned oil and gas wells are dramatically undercounted in the United States. Now that the federal government is finally offering substantial funding to plug and clean up these environmental hazards, states are finally starting to admit it. From 2020 to 2021, the number of wells that the state […]
Energy Department slammed for funding ‘false’ plastics solutions
The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, announced this week that it will invest $13.4 million in research funding to address the plastic industry’s contributions to pollution and climate change. But while the agency cast the investment as an opportunity to address urgent environmental problems while creating an “influx of clean manufacturing jobs for American […]
Beyond greenwashing: How chain restaurants could actually address their climate pollution
When McDonald’s opened its first net-zero restaurant in the U.K. last month, the backlash was swift. Despite a number of measures to boost the location’s sustainability — insulation made from sheep’s wool, on-site wind turbines and solar panels, and a biodiversity garden sustained by rainwater collected from the parking lot — environmental advocates cried foul, […]
This coastal town needs federal aid for climate adaptation. Instead it’ll get a military truck.
Surfside Beach, South Carolina is on the frontlines of climate change. Rising sea levels have left daunting prospects for the city’s heavily tourism-dependent economy. In a population of 4,000, roughly half of the workforce is centered on the business of tourism: retail, food service, and entertainment. Five years ago, Hurricane Matthew destroyed the main tourism […]
The Biden administration said its drilling-lease spree in the Gulf was court-ordered. It wasn’t.
Last month, the Biden administration held the largest-ever auction of oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico’s history, claiming it was obligated to hold the sale due to a court ruling that reversed Biden’s earlier pause on new drilling permits on public lands in the Gulf. But a memo filed in August, […]
Toxic Tides: Climate change expected to cause 400 toxic California sites to flood by 2100
To many Americans, California is defined by its ranging coastline and the sandy beaches and multi-million dollar homes that line its 840-mile stretch. As sea levels continue to rise, it’s no secret then, that the state and its inhabitants are facing a crisis. Hollywood knows this, too, as movie after movie over the last decade […]