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If the only things certain in life are death and taxes, you might say corporate lobbyists spend much of their time trying to avoid at least one of the two. Few industries understand this better than oil and gas, which has benefited for at least a century from…

As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options.  But extracting clean water from this toxic slurry will require…

DURHAM, N.C.—At Duke University, an elite school teeming with stars, Ben Abram shone among the brightest. Media reports from his undergraduate years, 2003 to 2007, portray a young man whose vigor was rivaled only by his ambition: Senior class president of…

DENVER—Few states over the past decade have been as progressive on climate action as Colorado, which is endeavoring to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and is on track to reach that goal. The state has passed dozens of pieces of…

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with David Cash, the former EPA administrator for Region 1-New England.  Former president Joe Biden made environmental justice a core…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind closed doors on Thursday that aims to fast-track mining projects across the country and prioritize mineral production on public lands with suitable resources—a decision natural resource lawyers and…

This week, a jury in North Dakota found Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. It was a monumental verdict that many civil society groups and First Amendment lawyers have…

On Feb. 14, the Trump administration fired around 1,000 employees from the National Park Service, part of a widespread federal workforce purge that many have referred to as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”  Last week, two U.S. District Court judges ruled…

RICHMOND, Va.—It’s all eyes on Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin now to take action on a number of bills aimed at increasing renewable energy development in the state and utility customer savings.  Among the bills Youngkin must act on by midnight…

OAK GROVE, Ala.—For the first time, an Alabama official has said that a fatal March 2024 home explosion above an expanding longwall mine in the central part of the Yellowhammer State was “likely” caused by the ignition of methane, a gas produced in the…