oil and gas

We Can’t Develop More Oil and Gas and Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees, Landmark Study Confirms

We Can’t Develop More Oil and Gas and Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees, Landmark Study Confirms

The world cannot develop more oil and gas while limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.  This is the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind comparison of major climate models that bolsters a similar claim from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2021.  “According to a large consensus across multiple modelled climate and energy […]

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    Living Near Fracking Sites Increases Risk of Early Death, Study Finds

    Living Near Fracking Sites Increases Risk of Early Death, Study Finds

    A new study shows that older adults who live near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas developments (UOGD), such as fracking sites and directional drilling, experience higher risks of early deaths. The study, published in the journal Nature Energy by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the first time researchers have been […]

    Keystone XL Pipeline: What You Need to Know

    Keystone XL Pipeline: What You Need to Know

    What Is the Keystone Pipeline? The Keystone pipeline is an existing structure that carries oil from Alberta, Canada, down to Cushing, Oklahoma. The major controversy surrounds a proposed 1,200-mile extension, or shortcut, between Alberta and Nebraska. Dubbed the Keystone XL pipeline, this additional route would connect into the existing Keystone pipeline in Nebraska, which extends […]

    Activists Protest Against Line 3 as Enbridge Accelerates Pipeline Construction

    Activists Protest Against Line 3 as Enbridge Accelerates Pipeline Construction

    By Jake Johnson Thousands of people from across the nation traveled to northern Minnesota this past weekend to join Indigenous leaders in what organizers described as the “largest resistance yet” to Line 3, an Enbridge-owned tar sands pipeline whose construction has accelerated in recent days as opponents warn the project poses a threat to waterways […]

    Small Number of Permian Oil and Gas Sites Are Releasing Large Amounts of Methane

    Small Number of Permian Oil and Gas Sites Are Releasing Large Amounts of Methane

    A relatively tiny number of Permian oil and gas sites are responsible for a wildly disproportionate amount of methane pollution, a new study from Methane Source Finder found. The research, a joint project of NASA, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, revealed just 123 of the 60,000 sites (0.205%) surveyed in the month-long […]

    Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Drives Panic at the Pumps in South

    Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Drives Panic at the Pumps in South

    Long lines of drivers waited at gas stations across the South yesterday — except for the stations that had already run out of gas — as the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline caused panic buying and chaos. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the “crunch” in the Southeast will take several days to alleviate and that […]

    Cyberattack Shuts Down Major U.S. Pipeline

    Cyberattack Shuts Down Major U.S. Pipeline

    The largest U.S. fuel pipeline remains shut down following a massive ransomware cyberattack on Friday. The Colonial Pipeline, described by one analysis as “the jugular of the U.S. pipeline system,” carries gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from Texas to New Jersey and supplies fuel to much of the Southeast. The attack and shutdown underscore the […]

    We’re All Ingesting Microplastics at Home; Here’s How to Reduce Your Risk

    We’re All Ingesting Microplastics at Home; Here’s How to Reduce Your Risk

    By Mark Patrick Taylor, Neda Sharifi Soltani and Scott P. Wilson Australians are eating and inhaling significant numbers of tiny plastics at home, our new research shows. These “microplastics,” which are derived from petrochemicals extracted from oil and gas products, are settling in dust around the house. Some of these particles are toxic to humans […]