Fortune - 04.2020

CLIMATE CHANGE LIKE AN OLD RACEHORSE, the West Seminole oilfield, a 12-square-mile patch of dirt on Texas’s far western flank, h ...

60 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 about the coronavirus—and a global petroleum-price war—sent oil-company shares tumbling this March, Oxy wa ...

created to engineer this shift, is even more direct. Buffeted by today’s push for lower-carbon energy, “oil companies need a rea ...

62 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 among the surest signs that global capitalism is undergoing a fundamental transformation to adapt to a war ...

Today, Lagano says, NRG has new hopes for Petra Nova’s profitability. One reason is Texas know-how: NRG and its partners expect, ...

64 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 aged project. What’s more, the IPCC says, CO 2 tends to grow more “immobilized” over time, and thus a proj ...

Plainview, Texas, lies between Lubbock and Amarillo, on a highway whose speed limit is 75 miles per hour but doesn’t seem to muc ...

nally, for instance, CARB wanted Oxy to insert fiberoptic “geophones” into each West Seminole CO 2 -injection well to listen for ...

the agency relent. And only after that did Oxy hand over a heavily redacted version that it had submitted to CARB. That version ...

PROJECTED CLIMATE-RELATED DAMAGES IN THE U.S., 2080–2099 CHANGE IN GDP PER CAPITA BY 2100 COMPARED WITH A WORLD WITHOUT CLIMATE ...

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ACCORDING TO A GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, the single largest threat to the health of the planet in the decades to come is clim ...

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72 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 With the world drowning in plastic, the need for recycling is more acute than ever. But the industry t VIC ...

CLIMATE CHANGE OVERFLOW Plastic waste in Smithtown, N.Y., where plunging prices have pushed the recycling system beyond its limi ...

74 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 end of an odyssey of as much as 8,000 miles. The fact that the waste has traveled to this distant corner o ...

waste shipped by the boatload from across the world. And we saw how the consequences of the broken plastics economy spill over i ...

STILL IN FIRST USE 3,000 MILLION TONS STILL IN SECOND USE 200 MILLION TONS SECOND USE (MOSTLY NOT RECYCLABLE) 700 MILLION TONS I ...

Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble—have argued that improving these recycling numbers is the solution to the plastic-wast ...

78 FORTUNE APRIL 2020 National Sword. The country had long allowed enormous quantities of plastic-waste imports. But the vibrant ...