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EPA closer to rolling back Obama-era rules on methane, admits added pollution will hurt air, health
The Trump administration moved closer Tuesday to rolling back Obama-era rules reducing oil and gas industry leaks of methane gas, one of the most potent agents of climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency formally released its proposed substitute for a 2016 Obama administration rule that ...
EPA vastly underestimating U.S. oil, gas system methane leaks: study
U.S. oil and gas drilling and related operations give off much more of the powerful greenhouse gas methane than the federal government estimates, wasting about $20 billion in fuel a year, scientists said on Thursday. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is colorless and ...
U.S. EPA bans scientists from independent advisory boards, riling Democrats
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday it will bar certain scientists from serving on its independent advisory boards, a move critics say could open the way to more industry-friendly advisers on the panels. The EPA barred scientists who have won agency-awarded grants in ...
Trump rebrands predecessor's policy to push U.S. 'energy dominance' as exporter
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday launched what he called a "golden era" of energy policy seeking to assert power abroad through a boost in natural gas, coal and petroleum exports. In a policy Trump calls "energy dominance," he rebranded efforts to export liquefied natural ...
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs. The industrial city on the shores of ...
Obama fostered big changes in energy, cuts in pollution but did so quietly
China Mostly unnoticed amid the political brawl over climate change, the United States has undergone a quiet transformation in how and where it gets its energy during Barack Obama's presidency, slicing the nation's output of polluting gases that are warming Earth. As politicians tangled in the ...
Trump looking to pick top fracking mogul Hamm as energy secretary
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to four sources close to Trump's campaign. The chief executive of Continental Resources would be the first ...
Why oil is still headed as low as $10 a barrel
The world is awash in crude, and the once-feared OPEC is pretty much finished as an effective price enforcer.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will deliver his first policy speech on energy on Thursday, hours after locking up enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination. Trump will be speaking at the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is expected to ...
The more oil and gas companies pump their saltwater waste into the ground, and the faster they do it, the more they have triggered earthquakes in the central United States, a massive new study found. An unprecedented recent jump in quakes in America's heartland can ...
Fracking seen turning 'tornado alley' Oklahoma into deemed quake country by USGS
U.S. government geologists now recognize much of Oklahoma as earthquake country, accounting for the bulk of 17 regions newly designated for seismic hazards attributed to underground disposal of wastewater from fossil fuel production. The 17 regions are delineated in the first official map by the ...
How long will the price of oil remain low?
The real struggle over cheap oil prices is between the "frackers" and Saudi Arabia, because the latter is the "swing producer" in the OPEC cartel. Regardless of which side wins, the game should end in two years.
