Search results for

Actor Ed Begley Jr. is has appeared in over 300 projects over 55 years. But there's one movie he wasn't in, so we invited him on the show to play, "Ed Begley Jr., Meet Bee Movie Sr."

Despite its pledges to combat the worsening climate crisis, the Biden administration is opening tens of millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas leasing.

The infrastructure law includes money for capturing carbon from power plants and removing it from the air. Scientists say such technologies are crucial to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.

The White House today said it is considering a request from California Governor Gray Davis for the federal government to waive some environmental standards so that the state can generate more electricity. NPR's Richard Gonzales has the story.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that a new study has found that genetic factors alone may not be responsible for Alzheimer's disease. Now, scientists are considering how environmental factors may interact with genes to cause the onset of the debilitating condition.

There are plans for a massive new natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The 750-mile pipe will carry natural gas from Alabama to the Florida peninsula. As NPR's Debbie Elliott report, It's a first for the environmentally-sensitive eastern Gulf.

In the second part of our series on the oil century, NPR's John Burnett reports on the environmental legacy of oil and gas production. For every barrel of oil and gas produced, some 50 barrels of salt water or brine are created. The salinity fouls the well and the land around it. A lot of big oil companies have sold their leases to smaller independent companies and many of them have decided not to take care of their wells, leaving a large number of orphan wells leaking brine. In Texas, both the government and the oil industry are in favor of plugging up these polluting wells. The state plugs 1300-1500 wells a year. The activists in this case are not environmentalists, but land-owners.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with head of the Environmental Protection Agency Michael Regan about the administration's newly announced plans at the COP26 climate conference to curb methane emissions.

In a major expansion, proposed U.S. rules would apply not only to new oil and gas operations but also older ones. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas considered key to slowing global warming quickly.

The Trump administration's rollback of a major clean water rule is sure to face legal challenges.