Is Guyana’s Oil a Blessing or a Curse?
More than any single country, Guyana demonstrates the struggle between the consequences of climate change and the lure of the oil economy.
By Gaiutra Bahadur and Keisha Scarville
More than any single country, Guyana demonstrates the struggle between the consequences of climate change and the lure of the oil economy.
By Gaiutra Bahadur and Keisha Scarville
A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Blacki Migliozzi
After the 2010 oil spill, the government enacted new safety regulations. President Donald J. Trump weakened them; President Biden has restored them.
By Lisa Friedman
There are roughly 14,000 old, unplugged wells in the gulf that are at risk of springing leaks or causing environmental damage, researchers found.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
A compromise built into the law ensures oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for the next decade. Activists say the region has been “sacrificed” to fossil fuels.
By Lisa Friedman and Bryan Tarnowski
A federal judge this week required the government take climate change into account before approving offshore oil drilling leases. That’s becoming more common.
By Lisa Friedman
Taylor Energy’s undersea wells have been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, when they were damaged by Hurricane Ivan.
By Brad Plumer
The senator from West Virginia, a coal and gas stronghold, has single-handedly stripped key elements from his party’s plan to tackle climate change.
By Lisa Friedman and Emily Cochrane
The Trump-era rule protected oil, construction and other industries from liability if they killed or injured birds while doing business.
By Lisa Friedman and Catrin Einhorn
The 55 oil spill reports, a record since NOAA began tracking them with satellites, were in an area full of abandoned oil and gas pipelines and drilling platforms.
By Blacki Migliozzi and Hiroko Tabuchi
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