Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate? The Energy Department awarded up to $7 billion in grants for clean hydrogen “hubs,” but environmentalists warn some of the money could prop up fossil fuels and fail to cut emissions. By Nicholas Kusnetz and Jon Hurdle
Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous By Phil McKenna
A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region By Jon Hurdle
A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It. By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass. By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
Foes of Biden’s Climate Plan Sought a ‘New Solyndra,’ but They Have yet to Dig Up Scandal By Marianne Lavelle
Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave By Dylan Baddour
A US Non-Profit Aims to Reduce Emissions of a Super Climate Pollutant From Chemical Plants in China By Phil McKenna
Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector By Martha Pskowski
Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide By Phil McKenna
Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds By Phil McKenna
As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules By Martha Pskowski
US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows By Phil McKenna
Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’ By Martha Pskowski
A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021 By Phil McKenna
Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases By Phil McKenna, and Lili Pike, Grid China Reporter