Six weeks after entering office, President Donald Trump gave a joint address to Congress on Tuesday, highlighting his administration’s consistent support of American-made energy. The Trump administration’s promises and policies – that continue to be dominant on his priority list – stand in sharp contrast to the previous administration’s attacks on the industry. During the
Read More...Ohio’s top producing Utica Shale counties have collected over $530 million in real estate property taxes from oil and natural gas activity since 2010, according to the latest data from county auditors compiled by the Ohio Natural Energy Institute (ONEi). This is just one of the data points highlighting how essential the Ohio oil and
Read More...Stakeholders across the country are calling on President Trump to swiftly sign legislation passed by the House and Senate this week that would repeal the costly federal methane tax. The methane tax, formally known as the Waste Emissions Charge (WEC), was included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as part of the Methane Emissions Reduction
Read More...The Wisconsin Department of Justice and Attorney General Josh Kaul are facing a lawsuit over serious concerns about outside influence in state legal affairs. At the heart of the controversy is Kaul’s decision to hire a Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) whose salary is paid by the Bloomberg-funded State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at
Read More...In one of the House Committee on Natural Resources’ first oversight hearings, a subcommittee held a hearing focused on restoring American energy dominance through offshore oil and natural gas development – highlighting the continued shift in tone in the new Congress and Administration. Witnesses and members of Congress pointed out the myriad benefits of a
Read More...This month, California State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow Californians, private insurance companies, and the state’s insurer of last resort to sue oil and gas companies for wildfire damages. The new bill takes the premise of California’s climate lawsuit – which is already on shaky legal ground, as similar suits are
Read More...Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to global climate change. In comments to Fox News Digital, AG
Read More...Texas’ leading business associations are calling on the EPA to accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment – the latest in series of efforts that show states and the Trump administration are eager to boost the technology and capitalize on increased momentum. In a joint letter sent Tuesday, the business community in Texas urged the
Read More...On February 11, oral arguments in the City and County of Boulder’s activist-backed climate lawsuit will be heard by the Colorado State Supreme Court. That means today may be the beginning of the end of Boulder’s attempts to pin the blame of climate change on American energy producers. As Axios Denver reports, Boulder “faces an
Read More...The campaign to bankrupt American energy producers via the courts took another blow on Wednesday with the dismissal of New Jersey’s climate lawsuit with prejudice. The judge’s opinion is already the third ruling of the year (following Anne Arundel, Annapolis, and New York City, as well as Baltimore in 2024) that has sent climate plaintiffs
Read More...On Wednesday, the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA) hosted a panel featuring bipartisan policymakers and industry experts regarding the International Energy Agency (IEA) that confirms the agency’s recent shift off-course, its misguided role in policymaking, and how the agency has gone astray from its original mission of ensuring energy security. The panel and the
Read More...Throughout the nationally-coordinated climate litigation campaign, plaintiffs have been determined to use state courts to try and achieve national energy policy. Unfortunately – and a bit ironically – that strategy isn’t playing out well, with a suite of defeats on the merits adding up to a dismal future for climate litigation. On the heels of
Read More...As President Donald Trump officially was sworn into office Monday, energy took center stage with the new President promising to unleash American energy in a series of inaugural speeches and executive orders. In his inauguration speech, President Trump declared: “America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing
Read More...Frank Sinatra says if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. So what does it mean when it’s repeatedly made clear that you just can’t make it in New York? That question is one the climate litigation campaign is grappling with today. In yet another demoralizing defeat for the nationally-coordinated
Read More...Unleashing America’s dominant natural resources, ensuring energy security through LNG exports, and protecting consumer choice through revised tailpipe rules were all central themes of the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) “State of American Energy 2025” event Tuesday. While industry leaders had little debate that the Biden Administration’s many efforts seeking to limit the oil and gas
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