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HELP WANTED: Hypothetical Partner for the Pebble Mine

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Canadian owner of widely condemned Bristol Bay mine desperately seeks new partner with a few billion to spare. Financial, social, and environmental indifference required. No need to apply if you’re fazed by economic infeasibility, relentless local opposition, pervasive risk, and…

U.S. Power in 2018: The Good, the Better, and the Gassy

Expert BlogAmanda Levin, Sophia Ptacek
The first numbers on last year’s energy trends are in, and there are two pieces of great news and one that should worry us: Solar and wind energy are thriving, coal-fired generation sunk to a four-decade low—but natural gas infrastructure…

Florida’s Proposed Fracking Ban Incomplete Without Acidizing

Expert BlogAlison Kelly, Briana Mordick
The proposed fracking ban legislation advancing through the Florida House and Senate fall short of protecting Florida’s sensitive natural resources because these bills do not include a ban of a more commonly used well stimulation technique in Florida known as…

Pebble Mine Fails Financial Feasibility Analysis

Expert BlogJoel Reynolds
Former Rio Tinto permitting expert concludes that proposed mine is “almost certainly not economically feasible,” with an estimated strongly negative net present value of -$3 billion.

A Journey Through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

DispatchArctic, AlaskaClara Chaisson
One of the world’s last pristine wild places is on the front lines of climate change—and threatened by fossil fuel development. These photos speak to why we must fight both.

A Fracking Boom Ransacks the Four Corners

DispatchNew MexicoTim Vanderpool
Native American activists in northwest New Mexico are putting up a firm resistance as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management hands over their homeland to allies in the oil and gas industry.