Sustainability
The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
oil
The (Un)Scientific Method
Big Oil lauds Paris pullout but warns of rising seas, severe storms
Fossil fuel companies are among the biggest supporters of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord. Yet federal documents reveal that some companies are well aware of the severe risks of a warming planet.
Chasing Energy
Standing Rock and beyond
On Reveal, we team up with Inside Energy to go behind the scenes at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and meet the young people who started the oil pipeline protests.
Chasing Energy
Fuel’s rush in: US oil companies hurry to lay pipelines under Trump
A high-stakes battle is underway on multiple front lines across America, as Native American and climate change activists square off against oil and pipeline companies racing to lay as much infrastructure into the ground as quickly as possible.
Chasing Energy
Big Oil’s grip on California
Known nationally as a laboratory of progressive values and environmental protection, California is perhaps the last place one would expect Big Oil to hold sway.
Oil and Mining
EPA: North Texas earthquakes likely linked to oil and gas drilling
Federal regulators believe “there is a significant possibility” that recent earthquakes in North Texas are linked to oil and gas activity, even if state regulators won’t say so.
Bakken energy producers stop fracking
Plummeting oil prices have prompted two of the largest energy producers in the Bakken oil fields to stop fracking, according to the Financial Times.
Oil and Mining
Another look at the perilous price of American energy
On this hour of Reveal, we take another look at three of our major investigations that explored energy production in the United States. We’ll revisit how fracking has opened new realms of oil and gas production and examine some of the complex consequences of so-called energy independence.
Environment
Mining and energy sectors pummeled as commodities plummet
After three years of record American oil production, a gloomier reality is taking hold in the energy and mining sectors as commodity prices slip.
Environment
Quakes near key Oklahoma oil depot draw regulator attention
Oklahoma’s earthquakes are threatening a strategic crude oil storage depot, and the state’s regulators are shutting down some disposal wells in response. That’s the latest in a string of developments as Oklahoma tries to slow down an explosion of earthquakes that seismologists blame on the injection of wastewater from oil exploration.
