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Exxon Plans to Zero Out Emissions from Operations by 2050
By KEVIN CROWLEY AND ARI NATTER/BLOOMBERG
E.U. Risks its Climate Goals By Calling Natural Gas Green
By Ciara Nugent
Fossil Fuel Companies Say They Want to Help Fight Climate Change. Here's What They Should Do
By John Browne
World Got More Power From Coal in 2021 Than Ever
By Amy Gunia
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Why Coal Shortages in Asia Might Be Good News for Clean Energy
Power crises in China and India that have caused blackouts and factory shutdowns are highlighting the region’s reliance on the world's dirtiest fossil fuel: coal. But some experts say the energy supply problems facing two...
By Amy Gunia
October 13, 2021
China's Power Shortages Have Environmentalists Worried
A serious energy crisis has led to fears that energy insecurity will weaken Beijing's resolve
By Charlie Campbell / Shanghai
September 30, 2021
Gas Build Up in Reactor Near Hong Kong Sparks Concern
The French utility that partly owns the plant has called for an extraordinary board meeting with its Chinese partner
By Francois de Beaupuy, Dan Murtaugh and Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg
June 15, 2021
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled
Keystone XL helped galvanize modern climate activism, uniting environmentalists in a battle against the project some described as a “climate dirty bomb”
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Bloomberg
June 10, 2021
Hin Leong Reportedly Failed to Declare $800 Million in Oil Losses
Hin Leong Trading is one of the biggest and most secretive forces in the world of physical fuel-oil trading
By Serene Cheong, Alfred Cang and Joyce Koh / Bloomberg
April 20, 2020
Mexico Reaches Deal with U.S. to Cut Oil Production
The deal would end the price war between Riyadh and Moscow that helped push oil down to the lowest in almost two decades
By Amy Stillman, Javier Blas, Grant Smith and Salma El Wardany / Bloomberg
April 9, 2020
Countries Are Falling Far Short on Action to Tackle Climate Change as Fossil Fuel Use Increases, Says Energy Report
Countries' plans to tackle climate change fall far short of what’s necessary to prevent temperatures from rising to an unsafe level that governments have vowed to prevent, according to a new report from the International...
By Justin Worland
November 13, 2019
'Companies Should Not Be So Greedy.' Some in the Oil and Gas Industry Worry Trump's Aggressive Deregulation Could Haunt Them
President Trump touted his deregulatory agenda on climate and energy in a speech in Pittsburgh Wednesday, describing his support as key to the industry. "We’ve ended the war on American energy," he said, surrounded by...
By Justin Worland
October 24, 2019
How a Ukrainian Gas Company Got Caught Up In Trump's Impeachment Drama
News broke Monday morning that a group of businessmen touting close ties to President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, spent last spring maneuvering to install new management at the top of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s...
By Justin Worland
October 7, 2019
Gas Prices Could Rise by 25 Cents After Saudi Attacks
Americans can expect to pay more at the gas pump starting this week, AAA says
By Sanya Mansoor
September 18, 2019
This Comic Creator Hopes His Terrible Ideas for Producing Energy Will Inspire You to Think of Better Ones
Lots of great ideas sound ridiculous at first. Putting mold on infected wounds sounds like a pretty bad idea, but it turned out to be revolutionary. On the other hand, not all creative ideas are...
September 12, 2019
A Fight Over Subsidies for 2 Ohio Nuclear Plants Draws Claim That China Is 'Invading' the Electric Grid
The Ohio law subsidizes the cost of nuclear energy by reducing renewable funding
By Will Wade / Bloomberg
August 30, 2019
Why President Trump Cut a Methane Regulation That Even Big Oil Companies Wanted to Keep
The Trump Administration announced Thursday the rollback of an important environmental regulation on methane emissions that even some of the world's biggest oil-and-gas companies support. The fact that Big Oil backed a regulation designed to...
By Justin Worland
August 29, 2019
Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactors
On Friday, an unusual kind of vessel set sail from the Arctic city of Murmansk, Russia, for a destination in the country’s far east––a floating nuclear power plant equipped with two reactors. The vessel, dubbed...
By Tara Law
August 23, 2019
Trump Says Wind Turbines Cause Cancer. Iowans Disagree
Since the early days of his administration, Donald Trump has sought to use his presidency to slow the country’s transition to clean energy, blocking key environmental regulations and lending his support to the fossil fuel...
By Justin Worland / Des Moines, Iowa
August 12, 2019
The World's Largest Automakers Asked Trump Not to Loosen a Climate Change Standard. Here's Why
The world's largest automakers doubled down on their call for the Trump Administration to rethink the scope of a rollback on limits on pollution from cars that were designed to fight climate change. In a...
By Justin Worland
June 7, 2019
How an Oil Boom in West Texas Is Reshaping the World
An oil boom in West Texas is reshaping the economy, the nation and the world
By Justin Worland
January 3, 2019
Why Donald Trump Is Feeling the Heat From Midwestern Farmers
It's not just trade
By Justin Worland / Corning, Iowa
September 10, 2018
The Trump Administration Released a Plan to Fight Climate Change. It Could Actually Make Things Worse
The Trump Administration released a new plan Tuesday to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and address climate change. But the proposed regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency, which would replace the Obama-era Clean...
By Justin Worland
August 21, 2018
California Wildfires Are Causing Billions in Damage. Who Will Pay?
In the past few decades, wildfire season in California has expanded from a few months each year to a year-long phenomenon. This summer's Carr and Mendocino Complex fires — which together have burned more than...
By Justin Worland
August 8, 2018
Is the Coming Natural Gas Boom Good for the Climate? Depends Who You Ask
Natural gas production in the U.S. is about to experience another boom with production increasing 10% this year over 2017 and 60% in the next two decades, according to a new report from IHS Markit....
By Justin Worland
June 22, 2018
Scott Pruitt Is Fighting a Growing List of Scandals
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is on a publicity tour and media blitz to save his political career, but unless you live in a select few heartland states or listen to conservative talk radio, you wouldn't...
By Justin Worland
June 14, 2018
Inside the New Technology That Could Transform the Solar Power Industry
The future of solar power has looked increasingly bright in recent years thanks to the plummeting cost of silicon solar panels and a global push for clean energy sources to address climate change. In the...
By Justin Worland / Golden, Colo.
June 4, 2018
California's Requirement for Residential Solar Panels Could Transform the U.S. Energy Industry
"This is potentially the beginning of what we'll see across America"
By Justin Worland
May 10, 2018
How Trump's Iran Choice Could Backfire
President Donald Trump promised crippling sanctions targeting Iran and anyone that helps develop its nuclear program as he announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. "We will be instituting the highest level...
By Justin Worland
May 8, 2018
Donald Trump Is Trying to Help Coal. But These Countries Are Doing More
The Trump Administration has taken a number of steps to help the ailing U.S. coal industry, but some think its biggest savior may turn out to be foreign countries in need of energy. As natural...
By Justin Worland
April 17, 2018
Prospecting for Oil
Listening to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman talk about the future of oil feels like taking a step back in time to a period not long ago when surging oil prices seemed destined to...
By Justin Worland
April 5, 2018
The EPA Head's Controversial Room Rental Is Not His Only Tie to Natural Gas
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is under fire after news that he rented from the wife of a lobbyist who works on energy issues, drawing further attention to his connections with the natural...
By Justin Worland
March 30, 2018
The Good News: The World Economy Is Doing Great. The Bad News: That Means More Greenhouse Gases
But some countries lowered emissions even as they grew
By Justin Worland
March 22, 2018
How Cheap Oil Is Pushing Saudi Arabia to Reform
A recent sharp turn is the result of more than the crown prince's change of heart
By Justin Worland
March 20, 2018
Chernobyl Is Now the World’s Unlikeliest Green Energy Experiment
Plans are being made to harness solar power at Ukraine's nuclear wasteland
By James M Gomez and Kateryna Choursina / Bloomberg
March 13, 2018
How To Fix Daylight Saving Time
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 12, 2018
Trump's Interior Secretary Claimed Wind Power Leads to Global Warming. His Numbers Are Wrong
Even at the high end, wind has less than 3% of the emissions of coal
By Justin Worland / Houston
March 6, 2018
American Fracking Is About to Transform the World's Energy Market, Again
"Everyone will be affected"
By Justin Worland / Houston
March 6, 2018
Even Oil Companies Are Now Saying Climate Change Will Hurt Their Business
Oil has occupied a central place in the American economy for the past century — powering houses, automobiles, factories and everything in between. As a result, the oil companies that drilled, shipped and sold black...
By Justin Worland
March 1, 2018
Here's the One Climate Change Deal the Trump Administration Might Back
From dropping out of the Paris climate deal to overturning environmental regulations, President Donald Trump has targeted a number of Obama-era policies on climate change in his first year — with one notable exception. The...
By Justin Worland
February 6, 2018
This Clean Energy Research Has Been a Bipartisan Priority for Decades. Donald Trump Wants to Cut It by 72%
The Trump Administration has moved to dramatically cut funding for a Department of Energy program supporting research and development of clean energy technologies, the president's latest attempt to stall renewable energy sources like wind and...
By Justin Worland
February 1, 2018
Fact-Checking Donald Trump's Energy Claim in the State of the Union
President Trump will use his State of the Union address to declare an end to what he described as "the war on American Energy" and say that the U.S. is now "an exporter of energy...
By Justin Worland
January 30, 2018
President Donald Trump Just Delivered His First State of the Union. Read The Full Transcript.
President Trump largely stressed the theme of unity
By Alana Abramson
January 30, 2018
What President Trump’s Tariff on Solar Panels Means for American Jobs
Jim Lamon is just the kind of businessman that Donald Trump would like. And Lamon is the kind of businessman who likes Trump. The CEO of DEPCOM Power grew up in Alabama, served six years...
By Justin Worland
January 25, 2018
Donald Trump Wants Oil Drilling Everywhere. Here's Why That Could Fail
Last month, the Trump Administration put more than 10 million acres of land in Alaska on the auction block for oil and gas companies to lease and eventually drill. The move — a key part...
By Justin Worland
January 12, 2018
A Coal Executive Switched to Building Solar Plants. Now He's Worried Trump Will Hurt His Business
Jim Lamon is the kind of businessman that Donald Trump would like. And Lamon is the kind of businessman who likes Trump. The CEO of Depcom Power grew up in Alabama, served in the Air...
By Justin Worland
January 11, 2018
China Could Be World’s Climate Leader
China unveiled plans Tuesday to create the world's largest carbon market as the country continues to position itself as the world leader in the fight against climate change. The emissions trading scheme, which the government...
By Justin Worland
December 19, 2017
Fracking Linked to Negative Health Effects in Infants
Babies born to mothers who lived near fracking wells during pregnancy are more likely to experience negative health effects than babies born elsewhere, according to new research. Researchers behind the study, published in the journal...
By Justin Worland
December 13, 2017
Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
December 12, 2017
Solar and Wind Power Face Serious Threats From the Trump Administration
Less than a year into President Trump's time in office, clean energy developers face a slew of unanticipated threats from the White House and Republicans in Congress that could slow the industry's growth in ways...
By Justin Worland
December 8, 2017
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