Climate Accountability
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![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
Colorado has an abandoned oil well problem. Now it’s asking drillers to pay up.
Colorado’s new oil and gas bonding rules ask for hundreds of thousands of additional dollars — but still might not cover all potential costs.
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![Residential area adjacent to oil refinery]()
![Residential area adjacent to oil refinery]()
The White House excluded race from its environmental justice tool. We put it back in.
A Grist analysis shows how the ‘race-neutral’ screening tool can still prioritize communities of color.
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![Oklahoma]()
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Who’s in charge of fixing the environment in eastern Oklahoma?
How a Supreme Court win for tribal sovereignty could have ripple effects on environmental protections across the country.
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![Side view of microphone with earth attached to end, yellow circle in background]()
![Side view of microphone with earth attached to end, yellow circle in background]()
PR worked for Big Oil. So can it work for climate action?
The scholar Melissa Aronczyk sees dangers in borrowing from the PR playbook.
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![Black silhouette of oil pumpjack with orange sunset in background]()
![Black silhouette of oil pumpjack with orange sunset in background]()
How New Mexico abandoned 1,000 oil and gas wells overnight
The state now claims it has more than 1,700 orphan well sites that will cost $290 million to clean up.
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![Residential street with palm trees, houses, and cars; oil refinery in near background]()
![Residential street with palm trees, houses, and cars; oil refinery in near background]()
Democrats’ climate hopes are riding on a new environmental justice bill
Here's what Republicans had to say about it.
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![Activists in London hold a 'Hands Off The Wild Coast' banner during the demonstration]()
![Activists in London hold a 'Hands Off The Wild Coast' banner during the demonstration]()
South Africa’s High Court sided with Indigenous communities
In their legal victory over Shell, South Africa’s Indigenous communities continue to assert their power.
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![Nearly 16 million tons of toxic coal ash have been dumped in a disposal site near Plant Scherer in Juliette, Georgia, operated by Georgia Power.]()
![Nearly 16 million tons of toxic coal ash have been dumped in a disposal site near Plant Scherer in Juliette, Georgia, operated by Georgia Power.]()
How a powerful company convinced Georgia to let it bury toxic waste in groundwater
Documents reveal Georgia Power went to great lengths to advocate for risky waste storage.
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![The Pentagon]()
![The Pentagon]()
US Army draws praise, criticism with new net-zero plan
"This is a great step forward, but what is required is a more ambitious plan.”
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![Abandoned coal mine among trees]()
![Abandoned coal mine among trees]()
The Biden administration is spending billions to clean up toxic abandoned coal mines
But it still isn't enough.
