permitting reform

Trump Administration Issues Executive Orders on Day One to Achieve U.S. Energy Dominance

As President Donald Trump officially was sworn into office Monday, energy took center stage with the new President promising to unleash American energy in a series of inaugural speeches and executive orders. In his inauguration speech, President Trump declared: “America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing

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3 Key Questions Ahead of Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing

The upcoming confirmation hearing for Chris Wright to serve as Energy Secretary will put a spotlight on how the incoming Trump administration will shift the future of U.S. energy production, specifically for oil and gas. Wright, the founder and CEO of Denver-based oilfield services company Liberty Energy, has spent his career developing U.S. energy and

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IPAA, API, and Leading Trades Outline Key Energy Policy Priorities for the Incoming Administration

With the incoming Trump administration sure to impact the energy world, the U.S. oil and gas industry is working to put forward policy roadmaps to encourage a robust, competitive American energy sector. New comments and policy plans from the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Ocean Industries Association, and the

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Sens. Hickenlooper and Cassidy Make Bipartisan Call for Permitting Reform

Last week’s American Petroleum Institute “State of American Energy” program provided hope that a bipartisan approach to contentious energy development issues may have a path forward in Congress.   Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), both members of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, recently participated in an API panel earlier that covered

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Natural Gas Hand Up for Renovo Slapped Away by the Unknowing

Natural Gas Hand Up for Renovo Slapped Down by the Unknowing Rhonda Balchun Renovo Borough Councilwoman ….   [Editor’s Note: Renovo residents have lived with natural gas for decades but a new gas-fueled, job-creating power plant was killed by those who know and care not about the town.] My name is Rhonda Balchun, and I

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Big Ugly Grifters (BUGS) Are Out to Destroy the Common Man

Big Ugly Grifters (BUGS) Are Out to Destroy the Common Man Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. ….   [Editor’s Note: Big Ugly Grifters are destroying places such as Renovo in rural Clinton County, Pennsylvania and killing the common man with green scam politics and corruption.] So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and

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Renovo Gets Rolled Over by Pennsylvania’s Ugly Rich Elites

Renovo Gets Rolled Over by Pennsylvania’s Ugly Rich Elites Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)   [Editor’s Note: Renovo, Pennsylvania needed help and got it with a new natural gas fired power plant proposal. It has been ripped from them by the Commonwealth’s rich elites.] The same three radicalized environmental groups

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JP Morgan Chase Goes Full Fascist?

JP Morgan Chase Goes Full Fascist? Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)   [Editor’s Note: Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase CEO, thinks condemnation of your land should be allowed to enable corporatists such as himself to grift off global warming schemes.] We’ve often written about “permitting reform” needed to build new

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Mountain Valley Pipeline Shows Federal Courts Out of Control

Mountain Valley Pipeline Shows Federal Courts Out of Control … … There is no justice to be had from our Federal court system today, as the 4th Circuit’s treatment of the Mountain Valley Pipeline perfectly and sadly shows. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) water

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