BIG GAS POLLUTERS BLOG

Civitas Resources claims to be Colorado’s first carbon-neutral oil and gas producer. Since the start of 2025 Earthworks’ investigations have detected 9 pollution events from 8 different Civitas facilities within Colorado’s Front Range urban corridor.

Civitas Resources claims to be Colorado’s first carbon-neutral oil and gas producer. Since the start of 2025 Earthworks’ investigations have detected 9 pollution events from 8 different Civitas facilities within Colorado’s Front Range urban corridor.

The BigGasPolluters website launched in May 2024 to track the methane claims and actions of the fossil fuel industry. Nearly one year later, our first annual update of the site’s interactive database reveals a number of key insights.

CNX Resources spent most of 2024 promoting its “Radical Transparency” program, but the only thing transparent about this company is the gas spewing from its operations – good thing Earthworks methane detecting cameras can see through their PR tricks.

During President Trump’s first term in office, oil and gas companies made headlines for opposing his efforts to rollback methane safeguards. Now, the industry that brought us to the edge isn’t just silent; they are quietly pushing us over the edge.

For years, oil and gas companies have publicly talked about their support for the EPA’s efforts to cut methane from the sector. Yet, two of their Texas-based industry trade groups are making an aggressive appeal to scrap these efforts.

In 2025 Trump will enter office just as the Biden Administration finalizes a multi-part effort to slash methane emissions from oil and gas, and, once again, Trump has signaled his intentions to reward the oil and gas industry with actions to weaken and altogether gut Biden-era rules.

Just a few years ago, companies like Shell, Bp, Total, Equinor, EQT, and even ExxonMobil claimed to support EPA methane standards. Now they stand in silence.

Talk is cheap. Look at what big oil and gas polluters do, not what they say when it comes to cleaning up leaky pipelines.