Fossil fuels

Widespread power outages left 4 million Texas residents without power or heat during freezing temperatures.

More than 4 million Texas residents were left without power in a state largely dependent on oil and gas.

Upwards of 4 million Texas residents remained without power late Tuesday afternoon after uncharacteristically cold temperatures plunged the state into power outages.

Though no mode of oil transport is perfect, pipelines have proven to be the safest and most environmentally friendly way to carry oil.

Biden has faced strong criticism from Republicans for an executive order pausing oil and gas extraction on federal land.

The Biden administration says tackling climate change will create U.S. jobs, but the Colorado congresswoman has accused the president of appeasing environmental extremists.

The inaugural festivities will likely be fueled by millions from corporations and special interest groups, as well as individual contributions from wealthy supporters.

Trump scoffed at the idea he could lose the Lone Star State: "The governor calls me from Texas and he says, 'sir, that's not true, you are up a lot," Trump said of Greg Abbott at a rally Monday in Pennsylvania.

Texas Republicans quickly zeroed in on Biden's comments as Democrats sought to mitigate potential political damage.

President Donald Trump alleged on Friday that Joe Biden's transition towards renewable energy would mean "America's seniors have no air conditioning during the summer."

However, Pew research also shows most Americans think the government is doing too little to address its impacts.

It's hard to know where to begin with Moore's attack on green energy. For starters, why does the fact someone stands to profit from renewables make it a bad thing?

The transition away from coal for electricity generation in the U.S. accelerated in 2020 due to lower gas prices, warmer weather and the economic conditions resulting from COVID-19, analysis found.

The industry crisis presents an opportunity for real climate action—and at a bargain price.

In North America, air pollution wipes 1.4 years off people's lives on average, which could mostly be avoided if we stopped burning fossil fuels.

The actress and wife of the U.S. treasury secretary posted an Instagram supporting the teenage climate activist.

A method of extracting methane recently described in Scientific Reports could turn permafrost hydrate reservoirs into carbon sinks.

The leak emitted more of the gas in 20 days than the oil and gas industries of some European nations do in a year.

Pollution in New Delhi peaked this month, reaching levels not seen in three years. In some parts of the city, the Air Quality Index approached 1,000—more than three times what is considered hazardous.

The proposed changes to the coal combustion residual rule won't survive the courts, says Betsy Southerland, who wrote the rule in 2015. But it will delay protections for vulnerable communities.

"The evidence is piling up that just as big tobacco misled the public and policymakers about the danger of smoking, big oil waged a decades-long deception campaign and covered up the origins of today's climate crisis."

"The idea of a people, investors and banks buying into a company like Saudi Aramco just flies in the face of everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown," Rachel Kennerley of Friends of the Earth told Newsweek.

While the federal government appears to be heading in the opposite direction, the experts we spoke to remain cautiously optimistic that the country can change things around.

""In my view, fossil fuel firms were morally and legally obliged to warn that continued use of carbon fuels threatens our health and welfare, and to accelerate the conversation on how to reduce the threat," the co-director of the Climate Accountability Institute wrote.

"Banks need to put out more ambitious green targets, backed by more robust accounting methodologies," World Resources Institute said in a new study.

Despite Trump's challenge to California, 49 percent of adults said they supported the state setting its fuel efficiency standards, while only 27 percent of respondents oppose the state's decision to set its own fuel standards.

In a worldwide first, a Norwegian Circle K gas station has replaced all of their gasoline pumps with electric vehicle fast chargers.

The private and public sectors must work together to develop the breakthrough technologies needed for a clean energy transition. Putting a price on carbon is needed because demand drives innovation.

Environmental groups say the decision was purely political and could result in the contamination of water supplies.

If rolled out globally, the islands could offset the total global emissions from fossil fuels.