Last week, U.S. Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm sent a letter to refining companies instructing them to limit fuel exports in anticipation of peak hurricane season and elevated domestic demand in the winter months. Sec. Granholm wrote: “Given the historic level of U.S. refined product exports, I again urge you to focus in the near term
Read More...In a heated political environment, energy issues—from fracking to natural gas bans and energy access—can quickly become contentious topics. Even so, it is important for the industry and its partners to find ways to talk with the public about energy issues and how policies to restrict energy choice would affect business and household budgets. Addressing
Read More...Environmentalist groups have been trying to chip away at residential natural gas for several years with increasingly restrictive building codes and building decarbonization mandates. Now the campaign is taking a leaf out of the climate litigation playbook, turning to the courts to try to pressure utilities to reduce emissions by reducing the type of energy
Read More...California is once again struggling with an energy supply crisis, causing the state to look to natural gas power generation facilities to try to prevent blackouts and brownouts. As Politico recently reported, ”California scorns fossil fuel but can’t keep the lights on without it.” Officials have warned that up to 3.75 million homes – about
Read More...Energy exports from the United States are securing Europe’s energy future and will only continue to grow following the European Parliament’s vote to classify certain uses of natural gas as a green, or a climate-friendly, energy source, in its taxonomy of sustainable activities. The vote is a tidal shift in Europe’s view of natural gas,
Read More...A new study from an anti-natural gas activist group is high on scare tactics around gas stoves but acknowledges it found low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and never assessed the actual risks, if any, to residents. The study, yet another published by authors from Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE), a
Read More...Democrats from oil producing states are pushing back against the Biden administration’s prospective proposal to reinstate the crude oil export ban as a hopeful solution to bring down the price of gasoline for American consumers. The letter, signed by Reps. Henry Cuellar (Tex.), Vicente Gonzalez (Tex.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.), Lizzie Fletcher (Tex.), Tim Ryan (Ohio)
Read More...High efficiency natural gas furnaces could soon be on the chopping block if a proposed new rule from the Department of Energy is implemented. The proposed rules would raise minimum efficiency standards from 80 percent today to 95 percent efficiency by 2029. If approved, it would ban cost-effective and highly efficient natural gas furnaces in
Read More...The city of Los Angeles has joined the list of California municipalities banning the installation of most natural gas appliances like stoves and furnaces in the construction of new buildings. The policy from the city council will also direct departments to develop a plan by the end of 2022 “that will require all new residential
Read More...The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s 2021 International Energy Outlook describes a promising future for the role of natural gas throughout the next 30 years or so, particularly for Canada. This year’s report looks at what long-term consumption, production and electricity trends will emerge between now and 2050. And for Canada, the energy future will definitely
Read More...Thanks to the development of America’s abundant shale resources, energy supply shocks seemed to be a thing of the past. But with winter approaching, the Biden administration’s refusal to allow timely lease sales for production on federal lands is set to contribute to the highest energy prices in years. Now that summer has come
Read More...American LNG exports to Europe are all the more essential since dwindling natural gas stockpiles and lower-than-anticipated wind generation have caused energy prices to spike. Energy prices in Europe and the United Kingdom are surging in the wake of a shortage of natural gas and have reached levels not seen in a decade. This has
Read More...Natural gas is supporting Europe’s energy transition and plan for a low carbon future. Today, natural gas supplies over 20 percent of the continent’s energy mix and is expected to remain integral to regional energy planning with the buildup of pipeline and liquified natural gas (LNG) infrastructure. U.S. LNG exports to Europe will continue to
Read More...Despite a drop in global energy demand due to COVID-19, natural gas emerged from the pandemic in a position of strength, according to BP’s recently released 2021 Statistical Review. As the report explains, global primary energy demand fell by 4.5 percent in 2020 – the largest decline since World War II. Yet, natural gas performed
Read More...For decades, the natural gas industry has addressed customer demand for increased energy efficiency by incorporating incentives and partnering with the federal government. The resulting improvements have been a benefit to consumers, who want to save on their energy bills, and for businesses worried about their carbon emissions. The Department of Energy (DOE) should review
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