The Green New Deal for Public Housing recently introduced in the Senate completely shut residential natural gas use out of consideration in new public housing standards. The plan would upgrade building efficiency and reduce overall energy costs but erases any savings from efficiency by forcing all-electric appliances into new buildings and retrofitted homes. Cost to
Read More...Just a few weeks after moderate Democrats in the California state legislature stopped legislation that would have phased in a fracking ban, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced his own plan to ban not only fracking, but eventually all oil and natural gas development in the state. This sort of aggressive opposition to safe domestic development
Read More...A report by researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy presents a well-rounded view on the role that natural gas infrastructure will play in reaching net-zero targets and bridging emerging energy technologies. Researchers had the Leaders Summit on Climate – during which countries, led by the United States, committed to more ambitious emission
Read More...Gordon TombSenior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Nothing rises above freedom in importance to human life, but climate cultists would steal it in the name of human life, based on nothing more than their ideology.] When my buddy Bill and I were 16 we’d jump into his 1954 Mercury for a day away from
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Drilling, hydraulic fracturing and geoscience are very complicated science, arguably much more so than Elon Musk’s rocket science! Elon Musk’s space adventures get all the media attention but one only need to think about a bit to realize modern oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing represent a
Read More...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will discuss electrification and the future U.S. energy grid during a technical conference that should highlight the major role natural gas plays in lowering emissions from the power sector, serving as the top fuel source for U.S. electricity generation and providing reliable, affordable energy. Yet representatives from the natural gas
Read More...On Tuesday, Anne Arundel County, Maryland became the latest municipality to file a public nuisance climate change lawsuit against energy companies and a trade association representing the industry. While the county’s decision to file a lawsuit in unsurprising – as Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman announced back in February that the county was “considering”
Read More...Activists aiming to shutter American energy production are returning to an old campaign: trying to block oil and natural gas exports. A group calling itself Defend the Gulf is reigniting the debate over energy exports with a list of demands to the Biden administration, including a permitting and construction moratorium on energy export infrastructure and
Read More...The nationally coordinated climate litigation campaign against energy companies is plagued by flaws and failures (and has been for years), according to a group of legal experts who discussed the lawsuits during a recent panel discussion. Hosted by George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law & Economics Center, the event focused on the United
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM, 1600 AM, 104.1 FM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about the Trolley Trail, carbon, wet sand and much more last week. The Shale Gas News has grown again to the Williamsport area
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. A Tiny Dose of Reality on CO2, Please! Our friend Gordon Tomb, Senior Advisor to the CO2 Coalition, reports on the
Read More...Bill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Cabot Oil & Gas and its suppliers helped open a new section of the Trolley Trail in Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties recently.] Though the ceremony had to be put off for a year, it was still exciting to gather in LaPlume on Monday to mark the
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI is no solution to anything. It’s going to cost New Yorkers some $92 Billion, in fact, for nothing more than green virtue signaling.] he New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) report New York’s RGGI-Funded Programs Status Report – Semiannual Report
Read More...Politicians in New York just can’t seem to break their climate lawsuit habit despite being dealt three devastating defeats in the past four years. The latest effort is from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who, with just eight months left in his term, introduced a consumer fraud climate lawsuit aimed at several energy
Read More...Production of natural gas in Texas remained strong enough to meet the increased demand during February’s historic winter storm and power losses across the supply chain, according to a new report commissioned by the Texas Oil & Gas Association. As TXOGA president Todd Staples explained: “Missing from many of the post-storm accounts and opinion pieces
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