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Communities Fight Gas Industry to Keep Pipelines Off Their Land
Michelle JohnsenIn January, protesters of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline were arrested in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Communities are turning to new tactics to keep oil and gas pipelines off their lands....
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Birds Vs. Blades: Wind Power’s Threat To The Sage Grouse
Jeannie Stafford/USFWS & US Energy Dept.The US Fish and Wildlife Service is mulling whether to list the greater sage grouse as endangered this September. Impacts from wind energy development may...
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When The Largest Machine In The World Fails
Trottier, Armand / La PresseThese transmission towers in Saint-Césaire, Quebec, collapsed during the ice storm of 1998 under the weight of the ice. Part 1 in our Inside Energy series Blackout:...
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Our Electric Grid, So Misunderstood
Dan BoyceSubstations like this one in Thornton, CO are necessary to keep the grid running smoothly. But, installing them in neighborhoods can be a tough sell for utilities. Part 2 of an Inside Energy...
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Why Smart Meters Don’t Make A Smart Grid
Stephanie Joyce / Wyoming Public MediaPower transmission lines march across the Shirley Basin in central Wyoming. Part 3 of an Inside Energy series Blackout: Reinventing The Grid On an overcast Florida...
View ArticleSneak Peek: Blackout!
The U.S. electricity grid finds itself today at a critical juncture: old and falling apart, while at the same time more important than ever. The Inside Energy team has been digging into the...
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Texas Weighs Waste
Travis BubenikLucy and Clay Furlong, West Texas ranchers and the owners of this old mercantile store in Kent, TX., are gearing up to fight a proposed nuclear waste site in Culberson County. Nuclear...
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IE Questions: What Keeps Our Electric Grid Humming?
“Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?” A former police officer turned...
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What A Storm 93 Million Miles Away Means For Your Power
NASAA solar flare, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. If you’ve ever seen the Northern Lights, you’ve seen the most visible evidence of a solar storm. Bursts of electrically charged...
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EPA Releases First-Ever Federal Limits On Methane
Rebecca Jacobson / Inside EnergyNatural gas compressor station. Methane is a key component of natural gas. It is also a greenhouse gas that is around twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide. On...
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Hacking The Grid: Rural Colorado And The Realities Of Cybersecurity
Jordan Wirfs-Brock / Inside EnergySteve Metheny, of the Delta-Montrose Electric Association, illustrates the utility's back-up to the back-up: a floor to ceiling paper map of their service area and...
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Lost In Transmission: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant...
How much energy is lost along the way as electricity travels from a power plant to the plug in your home? This question comes from Jim Barlow, a Wyoming architect, through our IE Questions project. To...
View ArticleElectricity Losses State By State: Interactive
As part of our IE Questions project, Inside Energy investigated how much energy is lost as electricity travels from a power plant to the plug in your home. In the U.S., five to six percent of the...
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Southern California Gas: “We’ve Never Had An Escape This Large”
Environmental Defense FundInfrared images like this one taken Dec. 9, are making it possible to see the massive escape of methane and other gases from the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Field in Los Angeles...
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Massive Gas Leak Points To Vast, Aging Natural Gas Infrastructure
Methane is spewing from an underground natural gas storage field in southern California called Aliso Canyon at a rate of 50,000 kg per hour – the equivalent of 5 million full-grown cows. The leak is...
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No More Blackouts: How New York Is Protecting The Power Grid
David Shankbone / Creative CommonsMidtown New York skyline with the Empire State Building in the background (with electricity), in the foreground is Alphabet City and the East Village without power,...
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Methane Leak Spurs Call For Greater Oversight Nationwide
Ingrid Lobet / inewsourceSigns like these asking for the complete closure of the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage facility, which Southern California Gas considers an essential asset, are beginning to appear...
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Video: What Coloradans Need To Know About Methane Leaks
The massive methane leak in California brings a spotlight not only to the leaking Aliso Canyon facility, but also to the integrity, regulation and monitoring of Colorado's own natural gas...
View Article“Safety Margin Lost” In So-Cal Methane Well
The Southern California well that has gushed climate-changing methane into the sky for 89 days was operated in a way that is legal but risky, some well experts say. Southern California Gas Co., a unit...
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“Senseless Exposures”: How Money and Federal Rules Endanger Oilfield Workers
Emily GuerinTruck driver Ryan Ehlis checks his tires before heading out for a night of hauling crude oil around the Bakken oilfield. Ehlis says being exposed to petroleum gas is an unavoidable part of...
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