Energy

While cleaner than fossil fuels, large-scale hydropower dams come with steep social and environmental costs of their own.

• By Kate Wheeling

A proposed natural gas pipeline is uniting Oregonians across the political spectrum.

• By Kate Wheeling

Women atop the Pyramid of the Sun stretch and get energy from the rising sun during celebrations of the spring equinox on March 21st, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Coal emits more carbon than any other fuel source.

• By Candace Butera

The U.S. is projected to see growth in energy exports as a result of increased energy efficiency, new electricity generation, and a continued projected growth in the production of liquids and natural gas.

• By Candace Butera

The energy terminal would have shuttled 131 million barrels of oil per year down the Columbia River.

• By Kate Wheeling

Here's why that's bad news.

• By Kate Wheeling

Canadian activists call on their government to consider First Nation and ecological interests over those of multinational corporations.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The House Intelligence Committee will investigate an alleged racketeering scheme, dating to 2009, perpetrated by Russian commercial nuclear executives.

• By Morgan Baskin

Exxon claims the study was paid for by activists. It was published in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal.

• By Kate Wheeling

Biofuels can reduce emissions, benefit American corporations, and create jobs. But slashing the budget of the Bioenergy Technologies Office effectively eliminates those possibilities.

• By Michael White

Once a Chicago meatpacking facility, The Plant now serves as an incubator for various food start-ups.

• By Susan Cosier

More than 200 out of the 523 coal-fired power plants that were in operation five years ago are now closed or slated for closure. What should we do with them?

• By Daniel J. McGraw

The Archdiocese of Chicago is acting on the pope’s environmental message.

• By Susan Cosier

Last year, Simi Valley Landfill entered what is becoming a fast­-growing business of transforming fetid odors from decaying trash into fuel, a feat made possible by the miracles of modern chemistry and government subsidies.

• By Olga Grigoryants

In Wyoming, where Philip Anschutz is currently building the largest wind farm in the world, coal, which is cheap and plentiful, is the answer to just about everything.

• By Gabriel Kahn

By air or water, pollution from power plants is a problem no matter which exit it takes.

• By Rachel Cernansky

Until we find a way to effectively store energy, the power on California's electricity grid will rise and fall with the sun.

• By Sinduja Rangarajan

In California, which has been leading the way for the adoption of electric vehicles in the U.S., the revolution is mainly centered around Silicon Valley.

• By Sinduja Rangarajan

Philip Anschutz wants to turn his 500-square-mile cattle ranch into the world’s largest wind farm. The project would generate four times more electricity than the Hoover Dam, enough to power all of the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It would also make Anschutz the nation’s most unlikely environmental hero—if he can ever get the thing built.

• By Gabriel Kahn

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The U.S. coal industry is in unprecedented decline.

• By Brian Palmer

In 2005, Tony Menendez blew the whistle on Halliburton’s accounting practices. The fight cost him nine years of his life.

• By Jesse Eisinger

Requests for consumers to shift their electrical usage when the power grid is strained can have "perverse effects."

• By Tom Jacobs