Climate Change

"Trump Expected to Significantly Weaken Fuel Economy Rules"

"The Trump administration is expected on Wednesday to propose weakening automobile fuel efficiency standards that were set under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to spur the sale of electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan."

Source: NYTimes, 12/03/2025

"Exxon Halts Plans For Massive Low-Carbon Hydrogen Facility In Texas"

"Exxon Mobil has pulled the plug on what would have been one of the world’s largest hydrogen plants, the latest setback for the effort to scale production of low-carbon versions of the fuel."

Source: Canary Media, 12/02/2025

Regulator Stopped Enforcing Gas Flaring Limits After Alberta Pressure: Docs

"The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Alberta bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters."

Source: Reuters, 12/02/2025

"Southeast Asia Storm Deaths Near 800 As Scale Of Disaster Revealed"

"The death toll from cyclone-induced floods and landslides in Indonesia passed 600 on Monday as rescuers battled to clear roads and improved weather conditions revealed the scale of a disaster that has killed nearly 800 people in Southeast Asia."

Source: Reuters, 12/02/2025

Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

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