Minor levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in water samples taken in Leadville and Lake County 12/4/24

Minor levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in water samples taken in Leadville and Lake County Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Christopher Higgins contributes to an article about the minor levels of PFAS, a class of chemicals that can cause serious health effects, that...

Five Bipartisan Actions on Energy Security as Trump Returns to the White House 12/4/2024

Five Bipartisan Actions on Energy Security as Trump Returns to the White House Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian, Accelerated Methane Program Manager Simon Lomax, and Roger Pielke, Jr. write about how Republicans and Democrats can meet in the middle on the...

Underground voids from abandoned mines pose danger to people and property when land collapses 12/3/2024

Underground voids from abandoned mines pose danger to people and property when land collapses Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Paul Santi contributes to this article about how swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can...

Lights Dim at Giant Russian LNG Construction Facility as Energy Sanctions Bite 11/21/2024

Lights Dim at Giant Russian LNG Construction Facility as Energy Sanctions Bite Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Mikhail Zhizhin contributes to this article about how activity appears to have slumped at Russia’s only construction yard for liquefied natural gas...