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Ohio River Corridor

Circuit Court Judge Rules Virginia Can’t Leave RGGI Carbon Tax

In 2021, as he was running for Governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin pledged that if he won, he would remove the state from the onerous carbon tax on coal- and gas-fired power plants called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Youngkin kept his promise, although it took longer than he had hoped. Unfortunately, the left-leaning…

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Mountain Valley Pipe Dinged Small Fine by Va. for Erosion Violation

Antis did their best, but their best wasn’t good enough. Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) victoriously began to flow up to 2 Bcf/d of Marcellus/Utica molecules in June (see Confirmed: M-U Gas Now Flowing Through Mountain Valley Pipeline). Construction of the project, which crosses steep mountains, has not been without its challenges, chief among them erosion…

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Range Resources Extends Southpointe Office Lease Extra 10 Years

Range Resources, the very first company to drill a Marcellus well back in 2004, leases office space in the Southpointe II business park in Cecil Township (Washington County), PA. Yeah, that Cecil, the one that has banned all new drilling by Range or anyone else via a 2,500-foot setback regulation (see Cecil Twp Supervisors Pull…

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NY Whistling Past the Graveyard by Blocking New Gas-Fired Plants

Living in New York State, as MDN editor Jim Willis does, is like watching a slow-motion train wreck. You can see it coming; you warn those nearby to get off the tracks and leave the area, but no one is listening. We’re talking about the coming brownouts and blackouts across the state (especially in New…

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Look for Increase in U.S. LNG Exports to Europe in Coming Weeks

Reuters predicts a sharp increase in U.S. LNG exports to European destinations “in the coming weeks.” Why? Because “the price spread between domestic natural gas and Europe’s main gas pricing hub hit one-year highs.” What the heck does that mean? We will explain it below. To view this content, log into your member account. (Not…

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IPAA’s Plan to Make American Energy Great Again

We’ve brought you Harold Hamm’s top energy priorities for the incoming Trump administration (see Harold Hamm’s Oil & Gas Priorities for Trump’s Second Term) and the top five priorities from Jeff Eshelman, the president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (see Top 5 Energy Issues for Trump-Vance to Tackle Starting Jan. 20)….

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NLPC: It’s Time to Fire ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods

ExxonMobil is the second-largest oil company (by market capitalization) in the world, second only to the Saudi-owned Saudi Aramco. Exxon is the definition of “Big Oil.” Unfortunately, Big Oil isn’t always a positive thing. Exxon CEO Darren Woods wants to keep American taxpayers locked into forking over trillions of dollars to other (corrupt) countries in…

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