Wednesday’s House Oversight and Accountability hearing will take a closer look at the motivations behind the Biden administration’s LNG pause and will likely see Department of Energy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Brad Crabtree face pointed questioning about the status of DOE’s study of the climate, economic, and other impacts
Read More...Just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey showed his appreciation for the industry that supplies about half of his state’s residents with the fuel to warm their houses in winter – a larger share than any other state – and about 41 percent of the state’s electricity generation by filing a
Read More...In a recent interview with E&E News, Dr. Robert Howarth – the controversial “Keep It In the Ground” researcher whose study the Biden administration used to justify its LNG export pause – again promoted claims about natural gas, energy prices, and LNG that were anything but accurate. Here’s a few things to keep in mind:
Read More...A coalition of oil and gas companies which cumulatively produce more than 40 percent of the world’s oil announced this month that they have reduced their upstream methane emissions by 55 percent and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from flaring by nearly half since 2017. The companies are members of the Oil and Gas Climate
Read More...With the incoming Trump administration sure to impact the energy world, the U.S. oil and gas industry is working to put forward policy roadmaps to encourage a robust, competitive American energy sector. New comments and policy plans from the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Ocean Industries Association, and the
Read More...Late Friday evening the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved new amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), likely sending gas prices in California, Arizona, and Nevada higher beginning next year. California’s LCFS program was established in 2011, ostensibly to reduce emissions from transportation. However, the new amendments – , which target a 30
Read More...October marked the 20th anniversary since the first Marcellus Shale well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2004. Like Pennsylvania’s Drake Well, which launched commercial oil drilling across the world in 1859, Range Resource’s Renz #1 has been a game-changer for the Commonwealth and the United States. As Jeff Kotula, president of the Washington County Chamber of
Read More...President Trump won election as America’s 47th President with a victory speech promising to expand U.S. energy production, stating: “We have more liquid gold — oil and gas — we have more liquid gold than any country in the world. More than Saudi Arabia, more than Russia.” Energy was indeed on the ballot Tuesday as
Read More...Once a central plank of the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda, the White House’s enormous environmental justice (EJ) spending programs are instead rife with “cronyism,” according to a new report from the House Energy & Commerce Committee. The Inflation Reduction Act’s EJ programs routed billions in taxpayer dollars to the Environmental Protection Agency, which was then
Read More...Multnomah County’s experimental climate lawsuit keeps getting weirder. After years of pressure from climate activists to add gas utilities to the list of industries targeted by lawfare, the Oregon County finally granted their wish by adding a local utility company to its complaint, which already features over a dozen defendants. It’s a déjà vu moment
Read More...On Wednesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, Rachel Reeves, delivered the Labour party’s first Budget since taking office, laying out her plans to “rebuild Britain” and “make every part of the country better off”. Yet, in a counterintuitive move, Reeves confirmed that the government will raise the Energy Profits Levy (windfall
Read More...“Energy is very much on the ballot here” Pennsylvania Democratic Attorney General nominee Eugene DePasquale denounced the climate lawfare movement targeting natural gas and oil companies in a Pennsylvania Chamber candidate forum posted Monday. WATCH: https://www.energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ScreenRecorderProject1_1.mp4 TRANSCRIPT: Moderator: “Energy is very much on the ballot here [in Pennsylvania]. Recently Vice President Harris has called on
Read More...This week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland released a ruling extending the deadline for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to issue a new critical conservation statute. This new development came only after pleas from both the NMFS and the oil and gas industry, stating that vacating the conservation statute in
Read More...Billionaire-funded climate activists are embedded across the Michigan government, likely including Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office – which is in the process of bringing forth a lawsuit against oil and natural gas companies – according to public records. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports that public records obtained by the watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight reveal
Read More...With less than a month before election day, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed new refinery supply mandates into law, threatening to hike gas prices not just in California, where prices now top $4.68/gallon, but also in swing neighboring states like Arizona and Nevada. The bill, which was introduced in a special session convened by the
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