After weeks of buildup, the first two Democratic presidential debates this week in Miami featured little discussion of the 20 candidates’ views on climate and energy policy, disappointing both those who favor an all-of-the-above energy approach that has seen the United States catapult into a global energy leader and the ”Keep it in the Ground”
Read More...Thanks to the shale revolution, the United States will account for almost a quarter of global oil and natural gas production by the early 2030s, according to the head of Rystad Energy. This rising global footprint comes from continued innovation by American energy companies, which allows them to optimize operations and extract oil and natural
Read More...Cities around the United States are evaluating how to reduce their carbon footprint without harming the economy. For these cities, making smart changes to transportation, construction, and other policies allow residents to maintain a high quality of life while consciously working to mitigate the effects of climate change. In cities like Columbia, SC; Boise, ID;
Read More...Following a “tectonic change” in global energy markets over the past decade from the shale revolution, “there is a bright future for natural gas,” according to American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert. In a recent Columbia Energy Exchange podcast on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry and the infrastructure and regulatory challenges
Read More...New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience. On Monday, at an initial hearing to discuss dismissing five of ExxonMobil’s defenses and other pre-trial motions, Justice Ostrager pushed the AG’s office to whittle down its lengthy witness
Read More...“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups have added a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” effort to their misinformation campaign to stop oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands. The groups have bolstered their total war approach by filing formal protests to nearly every lease application across the country in hopes of overwhelming the Bureau of Land
Read More...The United States shattered the previous record for the largest single-year increase in oil and natural gas production in 2018, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Last year proved to be a truly transformative one for American energy dominance: Although the United States holds less than 4 percent of the world’s oil
Read More...Horizontally drilled wells now account for 96 percent of U.S. oil production from shale formations, as well as about 97 percent of shale gas production – up from 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, in 2004 – according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Horizontal drilling, used in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing
Read More...Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that he is “shooting for the moon” and spending $500 million “to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas,” through a Beyond Carbon campaign led by the Sierra Club. But the proposal is out-of-touch with reality and
Read More...The United States – currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – will surpass Australia and Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG within five years, according to a recent International Energy Agency report. The United States Will Continue to Rapidly Grow Its LNG Exports. The United States exported nearly 1.6
Read More...“Keep It In the Ground” activists have zeroed in on pipeline infrastructure in recent years for activities that risk danger to people and the environment while causing costly construction delays. In response, the U.S. government and multiple states have proposed or passed legislation to address the significant safety concerns created by these activists’ actions. Most
Read More...Environmental activists who have cheered the ongoing power transition in the United Kingdom — which went a record 18 days and 6 hours of powering its electric grid without using coal — are overlooking an inconvenient fact for their cause. The UK was able to maintain its grid stability by increasing its use of natural
Read More...Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is in the hot seat over her use of two privately-funded attorneys in her state government office whose work is focused on clean energy, climate change, and prosecuting oil and gas companies. The attorneys are paid via a $6 million grant from billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael
Read More...The activists at Oil Change International said they wanted to dispel what they call the “myth” that American natural gas is a solution to climate concerns in their latest report on our clean energy future. Instead, they relied on and repeated their own tired “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) myths while ignoring key data
Read More...There is more good news for Americans looking to start a career in the oil and natural gas industry: Petroleum engineering tops the list of highest-paid college majors in 2019, according to CNBC. The network analyzed census data from career planning site Zippia on graduates with 174 majors, and the results are clear: “When looking
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