The Shale Revolution improved upon technologies the oil and natural gas industry had been using for decades and enabled a transition from energy scarcity to energy security, reduced emissions, lowered prices and helped entice manufacturing and other investments across the country. Despite this and more than a decade of evidence demonstrating the safety of fracking,
Read More...On Thursday, a U.S. District Court Judge in Louisiana barred the Department of Interior (DOI) from limiting acreage available to energy production in its upcoming offshore oil lease sale, which is scheduled to take place on September 27th. The decision was a blow to activists and the Biden administration, who hoped to restrict oil drilling
Read More...On Tuesday, members of Congress grilled the Bureau of Land Management over “the Biden Administration’s Mismanagement of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Program,” and heard from stakeholders with a vested interest in responsible federal land development, from tribal leaders to local elected officials. During Tuesday’s House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing, recent efforts from the
Read More...Four years after the climate lawsuit pushed by the New York Attorney General’s office was dealt a comprehensive defeat, California is putting forward its own case based on the same debunked theory that completely fell apart for Eric Schneiderman all those years ago – ironically, on New York’s turf and apparently ignorant that the Empire
Read More...In a wide-ranging, nearly four-hour hearing this Wednesday, members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform took a deep dive into the shadowy third-party litigation financing industry and the ethical issues that arise when well-funded activists manipulate the civil justice system. While some members of the Committee framed this potentially ethically-challenged financing method as providing
Read More...The U.S. oil and natural gas industry continues to drive methane reductions across the supply chain, making progress across key performance categories even as production increased, according to data released by the Environmental Partnership in their fifth annual report. The Partnership, a voluntary initiative representing nearly 70 percent of U.S. onshore oil and gas operations,
Read More...This Wednesday, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing to shine a light on the lack of oversight and ethics rules that allow billionaires to push political agendas through the civil justice system with little to no transparency. For a case study of how shadowy nonprofits and foreign billionaires influence litigation, and
Read More...Just months after approving the Willow project in Alaska, the Department of Interior has doubled back on oil and natural gas development in Alaska and canceled the only active leases in the state’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). At the same time, the DOI announced new rules to prevent future oil and natural gas development
Read More...Grid reliability – driven by natural gas – is paramount to ensuring equitable, affordable access to energy for Americans across the United States, especially those living in areas prone to extreme weather events. This summer, many parts of the United States. saw record-breaking temperatures, which increased demand. Peak demand, alongside the shift towards electrification,
Read More...Natural gas is a critical component of the future energy system, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Willie L. Phillips. Chairman Phillips, a Biden appointee, made the remarks at the Gastech Conference – the leading LNG global event – in Singapore this week, explaining: “This convening of global energy leaders at Gastech in Singapore
Read More...Natural gas trade associations recently called out the Biden administration for their overreaching and unrealistic proposed rule on gas pipeline leak detection and repair that would place an undue burden on operators who are already committed to reducing emissions. Reminder: Following the rules announcement in May, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) hosted
Read More...Ceding to activists’ demands to limit oil and natural gas development in the Gulf of Mexico under the guise of protecting the Rice’s whale, the Biden administration has announced “a lease sale in name only” that removes millions of acreage from the parcel and adds burdensome restrictions on operators. In response to the “arbitrary and
Read More...New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is rolling full steam ahead with his electrification initiative, without considering the voices of opposition ringing throughout the state. With the release of the second iteration of its Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Strategic Funding Plan last month, New Jersey continues to push its aggressive agenda aimed at shifting its
Read More...American energy production was top of mind at the GOP debate in Milwaukee as several candidates voiced support of the oil and natural gas industry. While no question was asked specifically by the moderators about American energy, many of the candidates pointed to unleashing domestic energy production as a means to increase energy security and
Read More...Election season is approaching, prices at the pump are rising, and just like clockwork, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is pushing for his proposed windfall profit tax, again. Yesterday, Rep. Khanna tweeted: Big Oil is making empty climate pledges. Congress must step up and pass my windfall tax on fossil fuel companies to rein in their
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