The city of Los Angeles has joined the list of California municipalities banning the installation of most natural gas appliances like stoves and furnaces in the construction of new buildings. The policy from the city council will also direct departments to develop a plan by the end of 2022 “that will require all new residential
Read More...The Oil and Gas Threat Map, a newly launched interactive map from two anti-fracking activist organizations, simply rehashes flawed research in an updated format. The map, a product of Earthworks and the FracTracker Alliance, is a virtual tool with a dynamic user interface that purports to map out “threat zones” around the country where the
Read More...Corporatism Is Killing Civil Society As We Are Distracted Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Corporatism, the merger of government and business for phony “profits” is invading every part of civil society and threatens its very existence. We must resist! Corruption has seeped deep into every major institution today. It is part ideological,
Read More...Climate Change Superfund Act A Clueless Cash Cow Exercise Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s proposed Climate Change Superfund Act is the latest of absurd, clueless, but politically correct, initiatives designed to kill fossil fuels and raise cash for green
Read More...Ethanol Mandates Resulting in Crazy Unintended Consequences Gregory Wrightstone Geologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Ethanol mandates are among the dumbest things trendy governments have ever done and the chickens of unintended consequences are now coming home to roost.] Expanded use of ethanol — enabled by President Biden’s lifting a
Read More...UPDATE (6/16/2022, 2:30 PM EST): The Colorado Department of Public Health and Envrionment (CDPHE) has issued a statement on the survey acknowleding the limitations of the authors’ findings: “Surveys of this nature contribute to the scientific evidence by identifying potential public health concerns that may need further investigation, but there are limitations, as there is
Read More...Oil and natural gas is contributing in a big way to help New Mexicans improve education and other public services for its residents. As ABC News recently reported: “Government budgets are booming in New Mexico: Teacher salaries are up, residents can go to an in-state college tuition-free, moms will get medical care for a year
Read More...With gasoline prices soaring, the Biden administration is scrambling to find a way to give Americans some relief at the pump—including bringing back a ban on crude oil exports. But banning exports of American energy would do little to lower gasoline prices and could even cause prices to increase in the long run. Speaking to
Read More...Pittsburgh is known for energy innovation, which in recent years has centered around the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). In May 2022, PIT announced a partnership with exploration and production company CNX Resources Corporation (CNX) to convert PIT-produced natural gas into alternative fuel, which will result in major emissions reductions for the airport. Pennsylvania has kept
Read More...In an odd turn of events this week, President Biden appeared to do a complete 180 from the previously stated White House position that the administration is using every tool in its toolbox to encourage increased U.S. oil production, as a tool to lower the price at the pump. Let’s hear the president’s seemingly new
Read More...Researchers with a long history of publishing deeply flawed studies targeting Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry – who have been previously criticized by state regulators – are out with a $55,217 survey that polled residents in Broomfield, Colo. on the health impacts of development that relies on faulty methodology. A public meeting to present
Read More...climate change Kevin MooneyThe Commonwealth Foundation … . [Editor’s Note: Kevin Mooney suggests climate change capitulation seems to be the current policy of oil and gas majors and is completely self-defeating; a dead-end policy that will achieve zilch.] ExxonMobil has not backed away from its commitment to carbon taxes contrary to what media reports built
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Totalitarianism has arrived and free speech is being erased by the actions of an unholy alliance of news organizations and a corrupt government and plutocracy. Whoever thought it would get this bad this quickly? Sunday morning we learned Southwest Airlines pilots had exercised their power not
Read More...Pipelines Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pipelines are needed to ensure energy supplies and avoid the crisis Europe has brought upon itself but elitist special interests have connived to thwart them.] According to a Bloomberg article, the energy crisis that’s led to electricity shortages and blackouts in Europe and
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. While many have strongly suspected Russia of underwriting American fractivism, that is speculation. What is not speculation is the role of Chinese communists. Three years ago, I testified at a public hearing regarding “Foreign Influence on the Pennsylvania Gas Industry.” I talked not only about the
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