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An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town

The Railroad Commission of Texas shut down injection wells to control a leak in a church parking lot. But 1.5 million gallons of toxic wastewater still spilled to the surface.

By Martha Pskowski

 A pit in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, where the Railroad Commission plugged a wellbore that was previously gushing thousands of gallons of wastewater a minute. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News
Oil rigs on the shores of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas. Credit: Maryorin Mendez/AFP via Getty Images

In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region

By Avril Silva
Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

By Steven Rodas
The Pinyon Plain uranium mine located within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park, in Tusayan, Ariz. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

By Wyatt Myskow
A crew works to plug an orphaned well in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge of Oklahoma.

Plugging Away at the Millions of Derelict Oil and Gas Wells in the US

Story and photos by J. Matt
A panel announces the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels during the COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on Nov. 21, 2025. Credit: First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit

By Bob Berwyn
Water pooling is seen on Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Wight

An Oilfield Leak Springs Under a Permian Basin Baptist Church

By Martha Pskowski
Jackie Chesnutt props up a sign next to a leaking oil well operated by CORE Petro on her property near Knickerbocker, Texas, on Nov. 18, 2025.

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje
Pumpjacks operate in an oilfield on March 16 in Midland, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Oil Tycoon Funds Far-Right Candidate Challenging Texas Oilfield Regulator

By Martha Pskowski
Eugene DePasquale, the current chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, is the state chairman for Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Gas Industry Front Group Targets Democrats in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense
Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Los Angeles refinery is seen on April 2 in Carson, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance

By Marianne Lavelle
A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas is seen at a port in Mumbai, India, after passing through the Strait of Hormuz on April 1. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images

The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’

By Lisa Sorg
A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks to the attendees at S&P Global’s CERAWeek in Houston on Monday. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality

By Katie Surma
An aerial view of British Steel’s Scunthorpe mill on April 12, 2025, in Scunthorpe, England. Activities such as steelmaking have disrupted the Earth’s energy balance. Credit: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

By Bob Berwyn
The Mi Vida gas plant is seen on March 18 in the Permian Basin of West Texas near Pecos. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna
Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz
The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill dominates the horizon in Belle Vernon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Pennsylvania Publishes Long-Awaited Study on Radioactivity in Landfill Runoff

By Kiley Bense
A view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin

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