Gulf Coast
Property insurance disappears for Louisianans – but not for gas facilities
Oil and gas facilities along the Gulf coast have long been a major market for speciality insurance carriers.
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Oil and gas facilities along the Gulf coast have long been a major market for speciality insurance carriers.
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Proposed rules are being described by environmental advocates as a “critical step” toward reducing routine gas flaring of active oil and gas wells.
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Local activists want action after EPA drops civil rights investigation.
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More than 100 people testified this week on whether the state should have the responsibility for carbon capture wells.
Polluting Democracy
This fall, Mainers could cut ties with their utilities. The companies are buying influence to try to stay in power.
Polluting Democracy
Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators.
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So-called environmental, social and governance policies are often adopted by companies to reduce their carbon footprints. The new Texas bill aims to stop insurers doing business in Texas from using ESG criteria, but it doesn’t include penalties for violations.
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The biggest barriers to making Texas’ power grid 100% renewable have little to do with politics.
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Chevron and ExxonMobil are among the companies in a ‘sustainability council’ countering grassroots activists.
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A national push toward offshore wind energy could create thousands of well-paying domestic jobs in Louisiana and elsewhere.
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Many banks promised to work toward net-zero emissions – but their targets explicitly exempt liquefied natural gas projects.
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Subsidies to capture and inject carbon underground doubled through last year’s federal Inflation Reduction Act. What happens when that money goes away?
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A new report from a public health watchdog found that more than 40,000 pounds of PFAS has been injected into more than 1,000 wells across Texas — and warned that the chemicals could pose a risk to public health.
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A string of new LNG plants threatens fragile coastal communities and delays a response to the worldwide climate crisis.
Utilities
Electric utilities spent billions after 2014’s polar vortex to ensure power plants and the grid could handle extreme cold, but this winter it still wasn’t enough.
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A Louisiana legislator wants to help keep landowners from losing their property to pipelines needed for the dozens of carbon capture projects proposed around the state.