Gas

Members and backers of the Trump administration are profiting from DAPL while scheming to make even bigger bucks shipping oil and petrochemicals overseas.

• By Antonia Juhasz

Justice Beth Walker voted to re-open an already decided case around the time her husband owned stock in a variety of energy companies. And that's not even why she's been impeached.

• By Ken Ward Jr.

The decision would remove protections for up 100 million acres of water, some of which have been closed to drilling for three decades.

• By Morgan Baskin

Legislators in both Capitol Hill and the high country, awash in Big Oil campaign contributions, are rapidly dismantling the pillars of American conservation.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Gas is crazy cheap. Car sales are through the roof. So why isn’t taxpayer support for mass transit tanking?

• By Jeff Turrentine

An explosion in North American fossil fuel extraction has led to a dangerous rise in pipeline spills and oil train derailments.

• By OnEarth

The main federal fund for roads and bridges runs at a deep deficit. If even red states can raise the gas tax, why can’t Congress?

• By Alec MacGillis

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

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

• By Jesse Eisinger

An initial review of rules issued by the Interior Department shows the federal government has taken important steps to protect drinking water resources, while not adopting the strictest regulations in place in some states.

• By Abrahm Lustgarten

A combination of location, credit card fees, and brand: basically, nothing worth paying for.

• By Rick Paulas

A Pennsylvania gas company offers residents cash to buy protection from any claims of harm.

• By Naveena Sadasivam

Our neighbor to the north’s once-celebrated record of environmental science research and climate change policy has been thoroughly turned on its head over the past decade. And tense negotiations over the Keystone XL pipeline may have damaged Canada’s relationship with the U.S.

• By Jordan Larson

In Ohio, where gas drilling is booming and toxic waste abundant, legislators acted modestly to address concerns about public safety.

• By Naveena Sadasivam

The energy giant raised the cash it needed to survive by slashing royalties it paid property owners to drill on their land.

• By Abrahm Lustgarten

Income from oil and gas production doesn’t always trickle down to landowners, as companies find ways to minimize the share they pay in royalties.

• By Abrahm Lustgarten