Every year, the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce puts out an advocacy agenda. Much of it reads like Mitch McConnell’s to-do list — cut regulations, lower taxes, rein in the minimum wage — with one
A growing body of evidence warns methane pollution from offshore oil and gas operations could be far greater than official statistics suggest, and can even cause helicopters to fall out of the
Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico release much more methane pollution than operations on land, a study published in Environmental Research Letters finds. Permian Basin oil and gas
The Biden administration approved 3,557 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands during its first year, almost 900 more than the previous administration approved during its first year in office,
The Interior Department is revoking about 70 oil and gas drilling permits issued, invalidly, during the first days of the Biden administration, Bloomberg reports. The DOI effectively suspended the issuance of public
The Biden administration effectively suspended new fossil fuel extraction on public lands and waters Thursday. Under an order signed by acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega, only high-level staff may "issue
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New England is set to lose eight gigawatts of generating capacity from fossil fuels as aging power plants built in the 1950s and ’60s retire and go offline. This will create a vacuum that
A federal judge stopped the Interior Department from selling 80 million offshore acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development, saying the Biden administration failed to properly account for
Fracking companies are going bankrupt at a rapid pace, often with taxpayer-funded bonuses for executives, leaving harm for communities, taxpayers, and workers, the New York Time reports. Nearly 250 U.S. oil and
Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez — an oil tanker carrying 53 million gallons of North Slope crude oil — hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska, ripping half a dozen
It may have seemed odd that President Trump released a dire federal report on climate change last month and then immediately dismissed it, declaring, “I don’t believe it.” But he had no
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It feels like a standard-issue attack ad—menacing voiceover, pulsing underscore, rust-tinted photos that signal dirt, grime, corruption. The narrator warns of a politician surrounded by “shady characters,” who is profiting off a
Since the beginning, President Donald Trump promised that stripping regulations on oil companies would drive employment. “We’re bringing back jobs big league,” he said. But, after six months of regulatory rollback, Trump
Former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson just landed a gig as America’s top diplomat, despite widespread concerns about his ties to Vladimir Putin. With Tillerson at at the State Department and fossil fuel
Advocates and lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to block a massive Arctic oil drilling operation and ban transporting liquified methane gas by train, all while the administration is considering creating
The Interior Dept. reinstated offshore oil lease sales across an area of the Gulf of Mexico bigger than Delaware on Wednesday in order to comply with a provision of the Inflation Reduction
If passed, the Inflation Reduction Act's $369 billion energy and climate provisions could put the U.S. on a path to cut climate pollution 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030. Not
If passed, the bill’s $369 billion energy and climate provisions could put the U.S. on a path to cut climate pollution 31% to 44% below 2005 levels in 2030. Not everything is swell,
Fossil fuel companies are planning nearly 200 "carbon bomb" projects that would push the climate past international limits, causing catastrophic global disasters, the Guardian reports. The 195 projects, defined by research published
A panel of appellate court judges heard arguments on Tuesday in Baltimore's lawsuit against BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and other Big Oil firms who failed to warn consumers about the dangers of