Fossil Fuels

Texas Billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand’s operations have left a long trail of environmental and safety violations, with few repercussions.

Feds give company two years to install modern pipeline-testing technology.

Hilcorp Energy’s history of violating Louisiana coastal protection regulations leads to citizens’ Clean Water Act lawsuit.

Over the past 12 months, the company has been responsible for more than 23,000 gallons of oil spills.

Owner Jeffery Hildebrand’s emphasis on cost-cutting collides with Alaska regulators.

A planned $12.3 billion coal mine in Australia has been “deferred” for now, a major victory for climate activists and conservationists trying to protect the nearby Great Barrier Reef. The Carmichael coal mine would have reportedly created as many as 5,000 construction jobs, but a study published last week found that it would have doubled Australia’s carbon emissions. The Queensland government had offered Indian billionaire Gautam Adani a “royalties holiday” subsidy that would have saved his company hundreds of millions of dollars, making it a potentially lucrative endeavor, but growing resistance to that tax scheme seems to have paved the way for Adani to pull out—at least for now. 

Cook Inlet pipeline ruptures expose fractures in billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand’s Hilcorp Energy companies.

A conservation success story faces a new threat that could undo the heroic efforts of the past.