Amidst attacks on U.S. energy production and continued global instability, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry managed to not only meet but exceed expectations in 2023. The industry broke production records and supplied critical energy resources at home and abroad, all while reducing methane emissions. Oil and Gas Industry Continues to Innovate Amid Record
Read More...We are heading into the twelfth year of the national litigation campaign against America’s energy industry – but you wouldn’t know it from looking at it. Despite this decade of assaults from activists, the lawsuits have failed to deliver a penny of the millions of dollars in damages government officials claim to be seeking, and
Read More...New financial statements reveal that anti-energy activists, the groups that fund them, and the politicians whom the control all continue to profit from the very same industries they routinely demonize. In 2014, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) – a backer of anti-Keystone XL pipeline and nationwide fossil fuel divestment campaigns – pledged to divest the
Read More...After months of build-up and nearly two weeks of negotiations, COP28 has come to an end with a deal agreed by nearly 200 countries. Headlines this morning have honed in on the news that, for the first time, the agreement includes language about the transition away from fossil fuels. Dubbed the UAE consensus, the final
Read More...Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is the ultimate game changer for both energy security and emissions reductions worldwide. LNG has made its way into energy systems all over the globe, helping nations reduce their carbon footprint while also providing reliable supply in a flexible and speedy fashion. American natural gas production has been crucial to U.S.
Read More...A recent poll from Yale’s Program on Climate Change Communications shows yet again that Americans want to continue cooking with gas. Only 31 percent support going all electric and abandoning their gas stoves, furnaces, and other appliances. But the environmentalists at the publication Grist tried to spin this into qualified support for electrification. Their headline
Read More...With calls for a rapid and disorderly fossil fuel phase-out making headlines as we enter into COP28, a timely research report from Carbon Tracker shows just how dangerous such a transition would be for the Global South. Carbon Tracker, an energy transition think-tank, has today released a research report Petrostates Of Decline which finds that
Read More...Deep in the Department of Interior’s recently proposed 200+ page rule updating the Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process is a not-so-welcome surprise for the American energy industry. The proposed rule introduces a “preference criteria,” a brand-new and potentially transformative mechanism that has flown relatively under the radar but could give the Biden administration yet
Read More...For 17 consecutive years, natural gas has been the driving force in reducing U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions, new Energy Information Administration data show, making almost double the impact when compared to renewable power generation. This data is especially relevant as COP28 kicks off this week with activist attempts to dismiss the role of
Read More...Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials will hold a hearing titled “America Leads the Way: Our History as the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions.” It’s an opportune time to be discussing American leadership in greenhouse gas emissions reduction. On Thursday, diplomats, state leaders, advocates, activists, the private sector,
Read More...With data is piling up to contradict any claims of “peak oil” within the next few decades, the IEA’s latest report on the oil and gas industry’s role in the transition to net zero pushes a pathway that would jeopardize global energy security and harm the industry’s emissions reduction efforts. Ahead of COP28, the IEA’s
Read More...On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected environmental groups’ appeal to effectively ban Lease Sale 261 and mandated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to hold an auction within 37 days. The decision is the latest development in the ongoing dispute over offshore leasing in the Gulf of Mexico,
Read More...Democratic lawmakers are citing a not yet peer-reviewed or published study from a biased researcher with a history of flawed work to justify their calls to stop permitting new LNG export facilities in the United States. The research from Cornell University Professor Bob Howarth claims that when considering the lifecycle emissions of LNG, natural gas
Read More...The Center for Climate Integrity – the Rockefeller-funded activist group pushing climate litigation across the country – is openly boasting of targeting energy producing states with lawsuits in blatant attempt to undermine the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. In a new article from E&E News, Richard Wiles, president of the CCI spoke of his
Read More...It is becoming increasingly clear that there are some members of Congress who lack a basic understanding of the makeup of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry and how oil markets work. This week, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and over twenty Senate Democrats authored a letter to the FTC claiming that the
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