Fossil Fuels

Sixty-two years ago, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” connected disappearing populations of bald eagles to the presence of the pesticide DDT...

A report released this month by Resources for the Future found that the complexity of federal grant applications for energy...

Gaslighting: Fifth in a series about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities...

Telling the story of our lives—climate change—takes a lot of words. But sometimes, a graphic is what makes things click. ...

In New Mexico—one of the largest producers of oil and gas in the country—researchers are trying to grow hemp, sunflowers...

When the South Philadelphia refinery was permanently shuttered by a catastrophic explosion in 2019 after some 160 years in operation,...

PORT LAVACA, Texas—Few men still fish for a living on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The work is hard and...

With coal ash, one date stands out: Dec. 22, 2008. Before then, relatively few people in the United States knew...

A recent oil spill in Wisconsin is exacerbating already tense relationships between state officials and several groups that are fighting...

A new lawsuit accuses the state commission overseeing Florida’s electric providers of slowing the transition to cleaner energy by sanctioning...