Matthew Brown

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This undated photo on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, shows cleanup work at the site where more than 300,000 gallons of diesel spilled on Dec. 27, 2021, just outside New Orleans. (Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality via AP)

Corroded diesel pipeline ruptures killing fish and birds near New Orleans

A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons (1.1 million liters) of diesel fuel just outside New Orleans after the operator delayed needed repairs, according to federal records.

In this Dec. 11, 2017, file photo, solar arrays line the desert floor of the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone as part of the 179 megawatt Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 Solar Projects north of Las Vegas. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Biden to expand solar power on federal land

U.S. officials announced approval on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, of two large-scale solar projects in California and moved to open up public lands in other Western states to potential solar power development, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to counter climate change by shifting from fossil fuels.

Race to a Safer World

Cells are seen during a media tour of renovations at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax, on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

Companies bid $192 million in Biden's first Gulf oil sale

Energy companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. auctions off huge crude reserves in Gulf of Mexico

The reserves in the Gulf of Mexico are estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude.

A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D. File photo by The Associated Press/Matthew Brown

US admits fossil fuel sales damage climate yet carries on with oil and gas leases

The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department's conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, according to government documents.

Race to a Safer World

Pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., on April 24, 2015. File photo by The Associated Press/Charlie Riedel

US to gauge climate damage from federal oil and gas sales

U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling on federal lands on a national scale, as the Biden administration steps up efforts to address climate change, the Interior Department said on Friday, October 29, 2021.

Race to a Safer World