Judge William Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island remanded Rhode Island’s lawsuit targeting 21 fossil fuel companies to state court on Monday. Rhode Island is seeking damages from energy companies to pay for the future costs of climate change. Compared to his peers who have judged similar climate litigation
Read More...Republicans took to the House floor this week to discuss “the American energy renaissance” that’s helped power economic growth, create jobs, boost innovation, lower emissions, and strengthen national security. The members who spoke are from the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) – a caucus of House Republicans led by Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Rep.
Read More...Inspired by the “throw everything at the wall” approach utilized in climate liability cases filed by municipalities across the country, the Rockefeller-funded Conservation Law Foundation is now changing its tactics in its lawsuit against Shell Oil Co. Chief Judge William Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled yesterday to
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Toby Rice, the young, hard-charging guy who just won a war to take over EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, wanted to drill in the DRBC region. Toby Rice is set to become the new CEO of the largest natural gas producer in the United States. He’s
Read More...Voluntary efforts to reduce oil and natural gas methane emissions are seeing significant results, according to recently released federal data. Since its inception in 2016, more than 60 companies from all segments of the oil and natural gas industry have voluntarily participated in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program. These
Read More...New Mexico is poised to receive $1.11 billion in revenue from activities on its public lands in fiscal year 2019, according to the New Mexico State Land Office. This is a 30 percent increase over the $852 million generated in FY 2018 – and it’s being driven by the oil and natural gas industry. As
Read More...On the heels of news in April that Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin is the highest producing oilfield in the word, we now know that the United States hit another record that same month, thanks in large part to production in that region. U.S. crude oil production reached 12.2 million barrels per day in
Read More...Ron StametsVice-President, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC)“More Than A River” … … Representative Ullman, who lives way downriver, speculates fracking is a threat to the Delaware and is determined to make landowners pay for her speculation. On May 29, 2019, Representative Wendy Ullman wrote an opinion piece that pretty much parroted the misleading talking
Read More...Madison WeaverCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs Intern, Pittsburgh … … Gas drilling today is a story of innovation and companies such as Cabot Oil and Gas have been growing their expertise every day for many years now. “It has been such an amazing journey to watch this program develop and to be proud of what
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Holyoke Mayor makes green splash to collect pander points with trendy Bay Staters, while betraying the very cause he espouses and denying others what he has. Is there any public official left in Massachusetts without his head up you know where, who can stand on his own two
Read More...Why do attorney general offices no longer tout their association with billionaire environmentalist Michael Bloomberg and the environmental law center he created at New York University (NYU)? Has this program, the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC), which has placed “Special Assistant Attorneys General” in eight state attorney general offices to push Bloomberg’s political
Read More...The United States is increasingly meeting its own energy needs thanks to American natural gas, new federal data show. Ninety percent of the natural gas used in the United States last year was produced here, according to the Energy Information Administration. For the first time since 1966, the nation experienced back-to-back years where dry natural
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy independence is the result of a shale revolution that is now allowing the United States to produce 90% of its natural gas domestically and export too! Energy independence doesn’t get much clearer than this; 90% of our natural gas is now produced right here in the United
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. “Norwich solar farm will benefit everyone” the pitch goes, but Vic Furman has a different view. It’s just more of the same energy con game he says. Yesterday, a post showed up on Facebook announcing a 76 acre 56,000 panel solar farm in Norwich,
Read More...Flaring is a temporary and necessary practice in oil and natural gas production that is used to ensure safety and mitigate emissions. Despite this, the practice has received negative media attention that is often lacking important context. Production companies strive to find innovative ways to reduce the need to flare, and the results of these efforts are clear: U.S.
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