Major oil companies are under pressure to invest more money in clean energy — but there's a big hurdle: It's still a hell of a lot more profitable to produce fossil fuels.
Business is pretty good in America's busiest oil patch. Prices are high enough to turn a profit and then some. But instead of going wild, producers have been aiming for something new: Discipline.
The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.
An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
