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Sun setting in Indiana through a haze of wildfire smoke.

The Cleanup Bill for the Fracking Boom is Already Here

In 1990 officials were warning the government that they needed a plan to make sure the costs to clean up the mess being made by the oil industry were not passed on to the public. If the public wants to avoid picking up the tab for the oil tycoons, it better get a plan of its own in place.

LNG tanker being loaded in Louisiana for export of U.S. LNG to China.

America’s Oil and Gas Export Delusions

Optical Optical gas imaging showing methane emissions from unlit flare in the Permian. Credit: Oilfield Witness

Our Methane Blindspot

Injection Wells Will Haunt Us Forever

Injection Wells Will Haunt Us Forever

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

The Grifters

The Grifters

Zombieland

Zombieland

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U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

Back in the beginning of the century James Kuntsler published the book The Long Emergency which warned about societal collapse due to declining oil production combined with “climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause major trouble for future generations.” Twenty years ago it was

Zombieland

Zombieland

Abandoned oil pumpjack.

Learning from California As It Becomes An Orphan Petrostate

Big Oil is Sticking Us with the Bill

Big Oil is Sticking Us with the Bill

Oil Industry Unlikely to Pay Mounting Debts Owed to America

Oil Industry Unlikely to Pay Mounting Debts Owed to America

Oil Industry Methane Pollution Is Business as Usual, Not Accidental

Oil Industry Methane Pollution Is Business as Usual, Not Accidental

Touring Ground Zero of the Methane Emergency

Touring Ground Zero of the Methane Emergency

methane

Optical Optical gas imaging showing methane emissions from unlit flare in the Permian. Credit: Oilfield Witness

Our Methane Blindspot

Methane is getting some attention as we learn new information on the severity of the problem of methane emissions in the oil and gas industry but it remains a distant second in the world's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, despite all of the good intentions (e.

Flaring methane in the Permian oil fields of Texas

New Methane Regulations Unlikely to Change Oil Industry Behavior

Oil Industry Methane Pollution Is Business as Usual, Not Accidental

Oil Industry Methane Pollution Is Business as Usual, Not Accidental

Touring Ground Zero of the Methane Emergency

Touring Ground Zero of the Methane Emergency

New Paper Confirms Much Higher Methane Emissions From U.S. Oil Production

New Paper Confirms Much Higher Methane Emissions From U.S. Oil Production

We ARE Having the Wrong Debate on LNG Exports

We ARE Having the Wrong Debate on LNG Exports

This Loophole in New Mexico's Methane Rules Is a Gift to Big Oil and Gas

This Loophole in New Mexico's Methane Rules Is a Gift to Big Oil and Gas

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The Grifters

The Grifters

“Look around the poker table; if you can’t see the sucker, you’re it.”

Exxon’s $20 Billion Fraud Lawsuit Continues

Exxon’s $20 Billion Fraud Lawsuit Continues

Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors

Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors

How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible

How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible

SEC Finds Fracking Sand Company Misled Investors With Claims of ‘Game Changing’ Sand

SEC Finds Fracking Sand Company Misled Investors With Claims of ‘Game Changing’ Sand

Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action

Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action

Bankers and Investors Finding Fracking Industry’s Underlying Models Prove Overly Optimistic

Bankers and Investors Finding Fracking Industry’s Underlying Models Prove Overly Optimistic

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Oil and Gas Industry Admits Blue Hydrogen is Too Expensive

The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.

Oil and Gas’s Pivot to Blue Hydrogen Is Falling Through

Russia-Ukraine War Is Another Reason to Break Free of Dirty Steel, but U.S. Companies Still Chase Profits Over Green Future

The Infrastructure Bill’s Hydrogen Funding Is a Big Win for the Oil and Gas Industry

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The Cleanup Bill for the Fracking Boom is Already Here

Injection Wells Will Haunt Us Forever

U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand

Zombieland

Learning from California As It Becomes An Orphan Petrostate

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Clean Power and Storage Wars

Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is

Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels

New Estimates Predict a Lot More Renewable Power Growth in the U.S. Very Soon

The Inevitable Death of Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’