Cleaning Fracking’s Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States By Dylan Baddour & Inside Climate News ● Energy ● March 31, 2025 One company, Natura Resources, wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.
Oilfield Witness Documents Rampant Flaring and ‘Blowdowns’ across Permian Basin as Gas Prices Cool By Martha Pskowski & Inside Climate News ● Energy ● March 27, 2024 With the new federal methane rule entering the home stretch, stranded gas in the Permian Basin could contribute to more flaring this year.
Witnessing the Permian Climate Bomb By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● January 19, 2024 Meet the methane hunters who exposing the dirty secrets of oil and gas.
Carbon Sequestration Pipelines Poised to Dominate US Landscape By Climate Investigations Center ● Energy ● June 13, 2023 Exploring what the anticipated (and massive) CO2 sequestration pipeline network will look like in the United States. It all starts in Texas.
Premiere: ‘Uncovering the Permian Climate Bomb’ By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● March 8, 2023 A 22-year-old activist confronts the world’s largest source of climate pollution.
