Last year, American companies flared and vented the lowest volume of natural gas in almost two decades. The U.S. Energy Information Administration preliminary estimate for 2023 reports volumes of vented or flared gas declined to .5 percent of gross withdrawals, demonstrating how industry best practices have worked to keep natural gas in the pipes and
Read More...New Yorkers may be in for a new energy tax if Governor Kathy Hochul enacts climate Superfund legislation that attempts to stick energy companies with billions in new fees for alleged climate adaptation costs. The Superfund bill in New York comes as Vermont recently enacted a similar law, while states like Maryland and California discarded
Read More...A D.C.-based, Rockefeller-funded, anti-energy organization that recruits municipal and state plaintiffs is increasing pressure on Wisconsin to join the climate litigation campaign. The Center for Climate Integrity published a report this week on the estimated costs of climate change adaptation in Wisconsin, where activists and billionaire donors have worked overtime to push the state’s attorney
Read More...The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, or 28 percent of the United States. More than 90 percent of those lands are located in the 11 contiguous western states and Alaska. Senators from Western States across the country recently voiced concerns over the abuse of that land during a Senate Committee on Energy and
Read More...Recent polling proves President Biden’s pause on liquified natural gas (LNG) export approvals remains unsupported. The American Petroleum Institute (API) released polling showing 89 percent of Americans, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, believe the United States should continue to supply natural gas to our European allies and other countries. On the results of the poll,
Read More...Professor Severin Borenstein from the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, one of the preeminent experts on California’s energy market, expressed reservations about a budding effort by California Governor Gavin Newsom to implement profit restrictions and penalties on California refiners. Soaring gas prices remain a top concern for many Californians, with state
Read More...Gas prices are set to surge across Colorado this summer as a new rule from the EPA goes into effect June 1st. The mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency requiring the use of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in Denver comes as the agency failed to approve a last minute appeal for a waiver from Colorado
Read More...Nineteen state attorneys general are challenging the “radical” climate policies of five Democrat-run states, alleging in a new complaint filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the states’ climate lawsuits are jeopardizing access to affordable and available energy across the country.Nineteen state attorneys general are challenging the “radical” climate policies of five Democrat-run states, alleging
Read More...After nearly five years of deliberation and activist pressure, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced her intent to file a climate lawsuit against American energy producers. This time, however, out-of-state activists are calling on the attorney general to turn the dial up a notch and include auto manufacturers and utilities in its meritless “deception”
Read More...California’s relentless war against oil and natural gas companies is poised to increase costs not only in California but also in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona. But when California Attorney General Rob Bonta took to the stage at San Francisco Climate Week last month to promote the Golden State’s climate suit against the state’s energy producers, he had
Read More...A Pennsylvania state senator plans to introduce legislation prohibiting municipalities that file climate lawsuits against energy companies from reaping the economic benefits of the oil and gas industry. Announced in light of Bucks County’s recent climate lawsuit and the activist group Center for Climate Integrity (CCI)’s pitch to Allegheny County, the legislation marks the latest
Read More...Researchers from Stanford University recently teamed up with Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE) on a new gas stove study (Kashtan et al.) that attempts to link the appliance to increased asthma risk. But like the team’s previous research, the findings relied on unrealistic cooking conditions to conclude: “Gas and propane stoves increase
Read More...The Senate Budget Committee took the House Democrats’ political-theatre-esque investigation into energy companies and turned it into a complete political dud. At a hearing Wednesday intended to build off of the House Oversight Committee’s (HCOR) failed investigation into energy companies back in 2022, Democratic politicians and activist witnesses failed to produce anything of substance to
Read More...UPDATE (4/30/24): Today, Joint staff from the Senate Budget Committee and the House Oversight Committee released their long-awaited report concluding a “nearly three year-long” investigation into oil companies. Spoiler alert: as E&E News put it the first time around, the investigation continues to show that “oil and gas companies, for the most part, want to
Read More...Despite local resistance from Pennsylvania workers, on April 10, a Rockefeller-funded activist organization that recruits municipalities, cities, and states across the country to join the litigation campaign pitched their anti-energy playbook to the Allegheny County Council Committee on Sustainability and Green Initiatives. The Center for Climate Integrity’s (CCI) presentation came days after a wide variety
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