The Papua LNG project will have an LNG liquefaction capacity of around four million tons per year (Mtpa). It will be built near the existing…
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Sempra announced that it reached a positive final investment decision (FID) for the development, construction and operation of the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project…
Following the expansion through the addition of a third crude unit, the total crude refining processing capacity of the Beaumont refinery in Texas, US has…
Results show scale of windfall from high oil prices following invasion of Ukraine.
Crude production from the Permian Basin has soared to a record high.
Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push.
Buildings, industry and transport drive estimated 1.3% increase, in conflict with Paris targets.
It’s lost 73% of its water and is unable to sustain some wildlife – and could soon negatively affect human health.
A minimal [sea level] rise of another 2 feet (0.6 metres) is projected from now through 2100, though the Federal Emergency Management Agency uses an…
Spending bill passed by Senate includes less than $1bn in climate assistance for poorer nations even though Biden promised $11.4bn
It was when the US Bureau of Indian Affairs built schools in Alaska, as part of an effort to assimilate Indigenous peoples into white culture,…
US-based New Fortress Energy (NFE) has partnered with Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to develop and operate an integrated upstream and natural gas…
The Venezuelan government and the opposition returned to political negotiations in Mexico — suspended for more than a year — and signed a rare humanitarian…
BP’s US boss said Washington’s new climate law would put its green plans in the US “on steroids”, even as the oil supermajor says it…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved Commonwealth LNG’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project of the same name in Louisiana.…
Tens of thousands of delegates have descended on Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort town, for COP27, the UN climate summit. Of the 33,000-odd that registered,…
More than 30 tankers holding liquefied natural gas (LNG) are floating just off Europe’s shoreline as energy traders bet the autumn price reprieve prompted by…
Before President Biden lambasted oil companies for excess profits and threatened to slap a “windfall tax” on them, several of his top energy advisers privately…
The fossil fuel industry is experiencing a remarkable rebound, with sudden momentum behind more than 80 projects that range from coal-fired power plants to hulking…
Severe to exceptional drought conditions remain common in the West, which has been battling its driest period in the past 1,200 years. But the drought…
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of about 12,000 chemicals typically used to make thousands of products water-, stain- and heat-resistant. They do…
Human-driven climate change made the droughts that gripped large swaths of Europe, China and North America this year at least 20 times more likely, an…
In 2014, Los Angeles cut its annual carbon emissions by 43% and saved $9 million in energy costs by replacing the bulbs in more than…
France’s TotalEnergies has signed a new investment deal in Qatar’s natural gas production expansion. Speaking alongside TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanne on Saturday, Qatar Energy…
Caption for figure above: Grid-cell specific rankings of 22-yr negative soil moisture anomalies (drought rank) in 2000–2021 compared to the driest 22-yr period in each…
The Biden administration on Wednesday reinstated $190 million worth of leases to companies bidding to explore for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico.…
Higher high tides, supercharged by rising sea levels, could flood all or parts of an estimated $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation’s…
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires has darkened skies over the Alaskan interior this summer with the state experiencing its fastest start to the fire season…
The heat wave that’s been gripping California and other parts of the West for 10 days and counting is the most severe ever recorded in…
Australian oil and gas company Santos has decided to proceed with the $2.6 billion oil project in Alaska in a bid to further diversify its…
A Washington Post analysis has found that today’s climate conditions have caused an estimated 46% of Americans to endure at least 3 consecutive days with…
Forests from the Arctic to the Amazon are transforming at a “shocking” rate due to the climate crisis, with trees advancing into previously barren tundra…
In recent years, Wall Street firms have tried to talk up their commitment to the environment and social justice. Now they are singing a different…
Wildfires have depleted almost all of the carbon credits set aside in reserve by forestry projects in the US to protect against the risk of…
Trends – At one weather station in Fairbanks, Alaska, each hour of rainfall is about 50% more intense, on average, than it was a half-century…
In the last two years, fires have consumed nearly 20% of them, according to the Forest Service. In Kings Canyon, hundreds of giant sequoias have…
US president Joe Biden said he expected Saudi Arabia to take “further steps” to increase the supply of oil in the “coming weeks” following a…
No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine. The oldest documented tree, a well-hidden specimen nicknamed “Methuselah,”…
United States: In Texas, temperatures hit triple digits Fahrenheit over the weekend, with some places breaking century-old records. On Saturday, Waco reached 108˚F (42˚C), smashing…
The proposed program for offshore drilling between 2023 and 2028 would ban exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. But by leaving the possibility for…
The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis. In a 6-3…
US liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers have announced a string of deals to boost exports. Cheniere Energy, the biggest American exporter, said it had reached…
When the U.S. Forest Service started an intentional fire in the Santa Fe National Forest in early April, the aim was to reduce the risk…
The historic drought in the western United States is about to get worse. Much of the West is already experiencing severe to exceptional drought, but…
A significant heat dome has been crowding weather maps over the Lower 48 states for the past week, bringing blistering temperatures that have toppled records.…
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…
Venture Global LNG has said it will build one of the US’s largest new liquefied natural gas export plants on the Louisiana coast, the first…
The relentless dry spell that is withering the American West is steadily warping normal life. Major reservoirs have baked down to record lows and are…
Investors refused to back resolutions demanding stricter fossil fuel financing policies at three major US banks. Proposals filed at Wells Fargo, Bank of America and…
The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands. The Interior Department said…
15 years after its was first discovered in a New York cave, white-nose syndrome has decimated the nation’s population of northern long-eared bats, reducing their…
Work published in Science Advances shows that large fires have not only become more common, they are also spreading into new areas, impacting land that…
Hundreds of residents in the US state of Florida were evacuated from their homes after a rash of wildfires that ignited dead vegetation swept through…
From the U.S. to China, in Europe, India and Japan, fossil fuels are staging a comeback, clean energy stocks are taking a hammering, and the…