The United States is producing more fossil fuels than ever and selling them to the rest of the world as climate change increasingly makes its presence known through heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods. The environmental, health and socioeconomic impacts of the energy export binge are being felt from the oil fields of West Texas to the vast ports of Asia.

Blowout: Inside America's Energy Gamble is a multi-part collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity, The Texas Tribune, The Associated Press and Newsy.

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As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s 'extraction colony'

An unprecedented drilling boom in the Permian Basin is great for business. But it’s polluting the air, overwhelming communities and threatening the planet.

How Washington unleashed fossil-fuel exports and sold out on climate

The Trump administration has its predecessor to thank when it comes to 'energy dominance.'

Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America's lands

The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can't even keep up with what's already happening.

Surge of oil and gas flowing to Texas coastline triggers building boom, tensions

For Texas ports, the rise in oil and gas exports is a windfall. For some communities, it’s not so simple.

When it comes to natural gas, the U.S. is 'open for business'

The U.S. government has become a pitchman for the natural gas industry, raising profits and temperatures.

Death in the oilfields

From 2008 through 2017, 1,566 workers perished trying to extract oil and gas in America. About as many U.S. troops died fighting in Afghanistan during that period.

U.S. fossil fuel exports spur Asian building boom, climate worries

As American natural gas production soars, South Korea builds tankers to move that energy to Asia’s top economies

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative newsroom in Washington, D.C.