Energy - Deceleration (Page 3)

Corpus Christi Officials Warn Water-Intensive ‘Green’ Fuels Plant May Threaten Supply, Rates

‘They spent millions of dollars pushing desalination and all the money went to lawyers, permitting and public relations. The idiots sold water they didn’t have,’ said a local retired chemical engineer.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 12 Apr 2024

Corpus Christi Officials Warn Water-Intensive ‘Green’ Fuels Plant May Threaten Supply, Rates

Oilfield Witness Documents Rampant Flaring and ‘Blowdowns’ across Permian Basin as Gas Prices Cool

With the new federal methane rule entering the home stretch, stranded gas in the Permian Basin could contribute to more flaring this year.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Mar 2024

Oilfield Witness Documents Rampant Flaring and ‘Blowdowns’ across Permian Basin as Gas Prices Cool

Life Around Gulf Coast Gas Export Terminals Marked by Explosions, Alarms, and Secrecy

As liquefied natural gas terminals grow exponentially along the U.S. Gulf Coast, experts raise alarm on low-risk, high-consequence events.

By Pam Radtke

/ 15 Mar 2024

Life Around Gulf Coast Gas Export Terminals Marked by Explosions, Alarms, and Secrecy

Approved Saguaro Gas Pipeline Could Damage Native Lands in Far West Texas—and More

Opponents of the Saguaro Connector Pipeline say it would do irreparable harm to sacred sites—and possibly feed an LNG boom—if it is allowed to link the Permian Basin to Mexico for export.

By Sara Sneath

/ 22 Feb 2024

Approved Saguaro Gas Pipeline Could Damage Native Lands in Far West Texas—and More

Texas A&M Holds Half of All Stolen Indigenous Lands Uncovered in Grist’s Study of Land Grant Systems

‘Misplaced Trust’ found 4.2 million acres—or 3 million football fields—in Texas land trusts that were wrested from Native peoples. Similar findings mar university holdings across the West, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and elsewhere.

By Tristan Ahtone

/ 14 Feb 2024

Texas A&M Holds Half of All Stolen Indigenous Lands Uncovered in Grist’s Study of Land Grant Systems

How Some of the Biggest Texas Polluters Keep Skirting Federal Environmental Laws

Industrial developers describe facilities as “minor” polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen.

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski and Inside Climate News

/ 5 Jan 2024

How Some of the Biggest Texas Polluters Keep Skirting Federal Environmental Laws

Texas Anti-Crypto ‘Week of Action’ to Challenge Bitcoin’s Hidden Costs

Targeting high water use, energy waste, and round-the-clock noise, opponents are challenging Bitcoin efforts in Navarro County, the author of ‘Let Them Eat Crypto’ writes.

By Peter Howson

/ 11 Oct 2023

Texas Anti-Crypto ‘Week of Action’ to Challenge Bitcoin’s Hidden Costs

Welcome to Total’s ‘Petro City’: Arlington, Texas

In this heavily drilled North Texas city, a UK-based investigative reporter finds echoes of TotalEnergie’s oil exploitation of Nigeria, Iraq, and Kurdistan.

By Tom Brown

/ 23 Aug 2023

Small Modular Reactors Remain Unlikely, Unnecessary ‘Hail Mary’ Pass

The diminutive reactors are likely to be just as prone to delays and cost overruns as their behemoth predecessors.

By Undark

/ 24 Jul 2023

Small Modular Reactors Remain Unlikely, Unnecessary ‘Hail Mary’ Pass

Pipeline Operators Released Hundreds of Tons of Toxic Gases During Texas Heatwave

Hazards from high temperatures inspire oil and gas companies to vent more than 500,000 pounds of toxins during 17 reported events. The Texas regulator did not respond to questions from Inside Climate News.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 1 Jul 2023

Pipeline Operators Released Hundreds of Tons of Toxic Gases During Texas Heatwave

Bitcoin Mining Boom Continues in Texas as Sweltering State Shatters Energy Records

The Texas Lege’s failure to reform energy-intensive bitcoin mining in Texas means the industry will continue to expand alongside record-setting grid demand, extreme weather disasters, water strain, and rising consumer energy costs. Second thoughts, anyone?

By Paul Krantz

/ 16 Jun 2023

Bitcoin Mining Boom Continues in Texas as Sweltering State Shatters Energy Records

Carbon Sequestration Pipelines Poised to Dominate US Landscape

Exploring what the anticipated (and massive) CO2 sequestration pipeline network will look like in the United States. It all starts in Texas.

By Climate Investigations Center

/ 13 Jun 2023

Carbon Sequestration Pipelines Poised to Dominate US Landscape