May 7, 2019
Stories tagged "oil and gas"
April 25, 2019
Earth Week Exclusive Interview with Carol Browner, Conservation Champion
Carol Browner has had a long career in public service on environmental conservation. She was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1993-2001 and served as President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change...April 11, 2019
Norway to End Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling
In a decision that caught oil and gas industry executives by surprise, the largest governing party in Norway announced it is withdrawing its support for fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic ocean near the sensitive Lofoten Islands, thereby effectively putting them...April 9, 2019
Pipelines Remain a Flashpoint
The President will travel to Texas tomorrow to sign a controversial executive order regarding streamlining the permitting process for oil and gas pipeline projects. This comes just more than a week after the President signed another controversial executive order to...April 4, 2019
President Trump Issues XL Pipeline End Run
Last Friday, with no fanfare or boasting, the President signed a new Executive Order approving the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which had been held up in extended litigation over whether environmental reviews of the project were sufficient. The new...April 3, 2019
Texas chemical explosion kills worker, 3rd plant explosion in 3 weeks
Yesterday in Crosby, Texas (about 25 miles northeast of Houston) a tank holding a flammable chemical caught fire at a KMCO chemical plant, killing one worker, critically injuring two others and sending panicked employees fleeing over a fence to safety. This was the...April 1, 2019
Judge Tosses Trump Plan To Drill Offshore In Alaska
A federal judge in Alaska dealt a major blow late Friday to the Trump Administration’s plan to allow drilling for oil and gas in the ocean waters off the North Slope of Alaska and in deep-sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. President Obama used his statutory...March 29, 2019
A Pair of Capitol Hill Hearings Making News
Yesterday President Trump’s nominee to run the Interior Department, David Bernhardt, had his confirmation hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and he was questioned hard by the Democrats about his alleged conflicts of interest and how...March 26, 2019
New Poll: Most Americans Support Reducing Fossil Fuel Use
In the latest Gallup poll, 60% of Americans favor reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, including 37% of Republicans and 60% of Independents. Interestingly for the prospects of passing Green New Deal legislation, 60% of Americans also believe it is “very...March 21, 2019