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Floodlight is a nonprofit news organization that partners with local outlets and the Guardian to investigate the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action

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    BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

    Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects
  • Polish President Andrzej Duda visit to the United States<br>epa11219212 A general view of the Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant, during a visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda, in Waynesboro, Georgia, USA, 13 March 2024. The technology used here is also to be used in Poland, in the first nuclear power plant planned in Pomerania. President Duda continues his visit to the United States. EPA/Leszek Szymanski POLAND OUT

    Why is US energy demand soaring – putting climate goals at risk?

    New industries such as cryptocurrency and cannabis are boosting industry forecasts, straining efforts to cut emissions
  • Jeff Landry speaks in the house chamber in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 15 January.

    What has Louisiana’s governor done his first month in office? Boost fossil fuels

    Republican Jeff Landry, who has labeled climate change ‘a hoax’, has elevated fossil fuel executives to key environmental posts
  • ‘By controlling the media, they [Alabama Power] are able to present as good neighbors to the public.’

    ‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news

    A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution
  • Solar panels on a roof with buildings and trees in the background.

    Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the US south. They became loyal industry advocates

    A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009
  • Smoke rises near Pinoche Peak on the east flank of the Ferguson Fire looking towards Chowchilla Mountain in this Yosemite Fire and Aviation photo from California, U.S. released on social media on July 23, 2018. Picture taken on July 23, 2018. Courtesy Yosemite Fire and Aviation/USDA/US Forest Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests

    Groups seek more time to comment on US Forest Service proposal to store carbon dioxide amid fears over safety and impact
  • The Denka, formerly DuPont, factory in Reserve, Louisiana. The state already emits more than 4% of the United State’s greenhouse gases.

    Carbon-capture gold rush an ‘insult’ to locals in emissions-hit Louisiana

    US government plans to roll out carbon capture rather than phase out fossil fuels prompts outcry in heavily industrial state
  • Gas power plants near Waynesboro, Georgia.

    US utilities oppose Biden efforts to make gas power plants cleaner

    Lobbying group’s pushback is out of step with voters and raises questions about industry commitment to reducing pollution
  • Women talk near a market as cars pass at a roadside market on George W Bush highway in the Tesano neighbourhood

    Will Ghana’s gas gamble perpetuate a cycle of fossil-fuel related debt?

    West African country is enduring hard times – and critics say plan to import liquefied natural gas will only make things worse
  • A man climbs up the side of his family’s destroyed storage unit after Hurricane Ida, in Houma, Louisiana, in August 2021.

    Property insurance disappears for Louisianans – but not for gas facilities

    Oil and gas facilities along the Gulf coast have long been a major market for speciality insurance carriers
  • The referendum presents a threat not only to Avangrid’s business model in Maine but to the utilities it operates in Connecticut and New York.

    Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility

    The US’s first state-run public power company could be created when Maine votes later this year – but utilities are fighting it
  • While dark money giving to tax exempt groups is legal, a number of utilities have faced criticism for it.

    Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups

    Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators
  • Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" - Landscapes<br>BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - OCTOBER 12: Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area October 12, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images.)

    In ‘Cancer Alley’, US chemical giants mount campaign against grassroots organizers

    Chevron and ExxonMobil are among the companies in a ‘sustainability council’ countering grassroots activists
  • Snow covered transfer lines are seen at the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas terminal in Maryland.

    Global banks pledged to cut emissions – but still invest billions on US gas exports

    Many banks promised to work toward net-zero emissions – but their targets explicitly exempt liquefied natural gas projects
  • The Cameron LNG export terminal in Louisiana, the first phase of which began operating in 2020.

    ‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas

    As the war in Ukraine sent natural gas prices skyrocketing, liquid natural gas (LNG) plants are springing up all along the fragile Gulf Coast – seriously harming not just local communities but the world’s ability to keep the entire climate crisis at bay
  • A National Grid vehicle is seen near downed wires in Buffalo, New York, on 25 December 2022.

    US utility firms spent big preparing power grid for storms – and still failed

    Electric utilities spent billions after 2014’s polar vortex to ensure power plants and the grid could handle extreme cold, but this winter it still wasn’t enough
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    Major US railroad merger could bring more tar sands to south-east Texas

    $27bn deal would create first direct route from Canadian mines to Gulf coast, while another would ship controversial oil from Utah
  • NextDecade claims a gas export terminal near Port Isabel, Texas, will be the ‘greenest in the world’, but opponents say its carbon capture plans will negate only a tiny fraction of its climate impact

    Carbon capture project is ‘Band-Aid’ to greenwash $10bn LNG plant, locals say

    Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG regain interest over claims of carbon capture
  • Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, in a file photo from 2019, is charged in a $60m  bribery case

    Ohio Republicans accused of taking $60m in bribes as corruption trial opens

    Prosecutors built their racketeering case with wiretaps, undercover agents and confidential sources
  • A picture of an offshore wind farm in Rhode Island.

    How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry

    The government wants to lease offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico – but the oil industry wants it for its own needs
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