As Oil Companies Stay Lean, Workers Move to Renewable Energy
Emma McConville was thrilled when she landed a job as a geologist at Exxon Mobil in 2017. She was assigned to work on one of the company’s most exciting and lucrative projects, a giant oil field off Guyana. But after…
They Were Proud Houston Homeowners. After Hurricane Harvey, It All Fell Apart.
The house was supposed to last the Fuentes family for the rest of their lives. They barely got a few years with it. Becca and Sergio Fuentes first met in middle school, and by the summer of 2017 they had…
Losing Your Neighborhood to Climate Change Is Sometimes Necessary
When it hit Houston five years ago, Hurricane Harvey dropped more rain than any other U.S. storm since reliable record-keeping began in the late 19th century, causing $125 billion in direct damage. More than 150,000 homes flooded and over 80…
How to Get Offices to Net Zero Energy Use
It’s true that my co-workers were not happy when I broke the news four years ago that one of the two restaurant-size coffee machines in the office kitchen had to go. One machine went mostly unused, and together the two…
Berkshire Hathaway cleared to buy up to 50% of Occidental Petroleum.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Friday received authorization from federal energy regulators to acquire up to 50 percent of Occidental Petroleum, one of country’s largest oil and natural gas producers. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in its order authorizing…
Saving a Texan Bayou, ‘16 Bottles’ at a Time
No matter how much Bayou Dave hunts, his quarry never goes away. He finds it each time he sets out on Buffalo Bayou, a slow moving river that wends through the country’s fourth largest city and out to its port….
How Redlining Contributed to Air Pollution Across America
Urban neighborhoods that were redlined by federal officials in the 1930s tended to have higher levels of harmful air pollution eight decades later, a new study has found, adding to a body of evidence that reveals how racist policies in…
E.P.A. Chief Vows to ‘Do Better’ to Protect Poor Communities
WASHINGTON — Michael S. Regan, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, traveled to Jackson, Miss., in November to discuss the city’s poor water quality at an elementary school where children have to drink bottled water and use portable restrooms…
The ‘Old American Dream,’ a Trap As the Floods Keep Coming
HOUSTON — In her kitchen, Juanita Hall routinely found opossums staring back at her from the cage trap she kept under the table. In one room, the flooring had simply washed away. The door to the back bedroom — her…
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