Big Oil is Sticking Us with the Bill
State regulators are allowing the oil industry to walk away from its cleanup responsibilities.
Justin Mikulka
Deja Vu All Over Again: Carbon Dioxide Storage Poses Large Known Risks
Oil industry plans to store carbon dioxide in injection wells pose huge financial, environmental and climate risks.
America's Water Woes
Water is seeping into a lot of the news these days. We should pay attention. Much like with the climate crisis, the American water crisis is a story of decades of greed and inaction. An approach that works well until it doesn't.
First up, an issue that will
Oil Industry Unlikely to Pay Mounting Debts Owed to America
In 2019 I wrote an article that posed the question, “Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?” The following year I wrote the article, “With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public” in which I
Clean Power and Storage Wars
When people find out what I do for work, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Are we doomed?” My usual response is, “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” We know the people willing to destroy the planet for personal gain are still
New Methane Regulations Unlikely to Change Oil Industry Behavior
It is unlikely that the new methane regulations will have the large predicted impact on reducing methane emissions for the U.S. oil and gas industry. While it is unfortunate that this is the reality, after writing about the regulatory process in the U.S. for the past ten years,
Happy Oil Industry Sunset Day
Something remarkable happened today in the pages of the Wall Street Journal today. In the article Exxon and Chevron Earnings Fall Back to Earth, a rather stunning quote snuck in explaining why investors weren’t as keen on Exxon as might be expected.
“There’s still a lingering concern for