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President Trump's Energy, Low and Dirty - Paul Krugman, New York Times

Donald Trump has two false beliefs about energy, one personal, one political. And the latter may send the world on a path to disaster. ...

Midwestern Energy Boom Seen as Key to Trump's Win - Ford Carson, RealClearPolitics

Still looking to make sense of the 2016 presidential election? You might want to examine the Utica shale formation, which lies beneath key Midwestern and Northeastern states, for h...

The Crude Politics of Trump's Oil Order - San Francisco Chronicle

Oil prices are in a prolonged slump, gasoline demand is weak, and the international oil cartel is limiting supply. Given California law and public opinion, Trump's order could have...

Trump Revives Energy Industry Obama Tried to Kill - Stephen Moore, Washington Times

Buried in an otherwise humdrum jobs report for March was the jaw-dropping pronouncement by the Labor Department that mining jobs in America were up by 11,000 in March. Since the lo...

Keystone XL Pipeline: Progress at Last - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Despite the implosion of the GOP's half-baked American Health Care Act, and regardless of the latest firestorm over a tweet from President Trump, the administration ......

Trump Can't Stop Our Clean Energy Future - Sen. Michael Bennet, USA Today

The American president has considerable powers, but turning back time is not one of them. President Trump believes his latest “Energy Independence” Executive Order can ...

Trump Making American Energy Great Again - , Investor's Business Daily

Energy: With the swipe of a pen on Tuesday, President Trump will begin to erase the anti-energy legacy of the previous administration. It's one of the most important things he will...

Untapped Revenue: Another Reason to Drill - Moore & Coleman, Weekly Standard

One of President Donald Trump's most urgent policy priorities is to cut taxes for businesses and workers. It's a promise that Republicans must fulfill if they want to restore Ameri...

Low Oil Prices Prove How Wrong Obama Was Yet Again - New York Post

With oil prices struggling to rebound after hitting a three-month low last week, Americans are getting yet another reminder of just how wrong President Barack Obama was about drill...

Don't Ban Fracking in Maryland - Washington Post

TO COMBAT global warming, you need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions — and you have to do so at reasonable cost, because everyone relies on affordable energy. The principles...

Don't Shut Down Fracking--Regulate It Instead - Washington Post

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING — also known as fracking — has been a roiling issue over the past several years. For much of that time, Environmental Protection Agency experts hav...

The Truth About the Shutdown of Dakota Pipeline - Naomi Schaefer Riley, Commentary

'Today we’re celebrating. For the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. government is going to honor tribal sovereignty and the treaties that were signed by the U.S. governmen...

Perry Is the Wrong Choice for Energy Secretary - Lawrence Krauss, New York Times

Much has been made of the irony of Rick Perry’s nomination to be the next secretary of energy. He would oversee a department that he wanted to eliminate as a Republican presi...

Energy-Savvy Cabinet Must Overhaul Obama's Broken Policies - Investor's Biz Daily

Energy: With a spate of major Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump has made one thing abundantly clear: He intends to make reform of U.S. energy policy a major theme of his ...

Contaminated Water: The Fracking Myth That Failed - Timothy Benson, RealClearEnergy

The myth that hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” of oil and natural gas is responsible for the widespread, systemic contamination of groundwater (the stu...

Dismantling President Obama's Radical, Anti-Energy Agenda - Jim Stinson, LifeZette

While President-Elect Donald Trump is focused strongly on keeping jobs from going to Mexico and China, he must also fight to deliver on campaign promises to unleash America's energ...

If Oil Refiners Crash, So Will the Economy - Carl Icahn, Wall Street Journal

Biofuel regulations are ruining merchant oil refiners—bad for business and national security....

Election Could Reverse Decades-Long Environmental Trend - Bill Murray, RCP

The last in a 10-part seriesOnly four miles north of the famed environmentalist Rachel Carson's birthplace in western Pennsylvania, tucked behind a suburban shopping mall and hidde...

Dismantling Obama's War on Coal - Luke Popovich, LifeZette

Donald Trump praised America’s coal workers throughout the recent presidential campaign — and he vowed to get the coal industry back on its feet. Now that a Trump admin...

Trump's Election Jolts Energy and Environmental Policy - Bill Murray, RealClearPolitics

Donald Trump's upset victory in the presidential election changes everything in terms of energy and climate politics in the United States.And many of those changes can be made by t...

Methane Leaks Declining Even as Natural Gas Production Grows - John Fialka, E&E Publishing

College students learn in Economics 101 that no one leaves $20 bills lying on the street. It is a rubric used to fortify the theory that big economic markets are sophisticated and ...

Fight Over Dakota Access Pipeline Intensifies - Kris Maher & Chester Dawson, Wall Street Journal

A protest by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access pipeline has morphed into a broad opposition movement, prompting the Obama administration to review federal per...

Energy, Infrastructure Should Be Part of Presidential Debates - Patrick C. Miller, The Bakken Magazine

Energy and infrastructure development play a key role in the U.S. economy, which is why two organizations say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should discuss the topics during thei...

Gas Industry Leaders Want to See More Pipeline Infrastructure - Christine Manganas, Pittsburgh Business Times

Leaders of the Pennsylvania oil and gas industry said pipeline infrastructure is not keeping up with rising natural gas production in the region.In a conference call Wednesday rega...

Commentary: Arctic Drilling Has Vital Role in Energy, National Security - Erik Milito, FuelFix

By Erik Milito Theyâre calling it âmega,â âmassive,â âmajor.â A new oil discovery in shallow waters off Alaska...

Cutting Off Arctic Drilling Options Would Harm U.S. Energy Security - Erik Milito, The Hill

Maintaining Arctic exploration options in the Obama administration’s next five-year leasing plan is critical for America’s future energy security. Alaska’s Beaufo...

API Will Pursue RFS Reform During 2016 Lame-Duck Congress and Beyond - Nick Snow, Oil & Gas Journal

The American Petroleum Institute plans to press members of Congress to reform the federal Renewable Fuel Standard when the federal lawmakers return for their 2016 lame-duck session...

API Wants "Outdated" Ethanol Mandates Ended - Dave Strandberg, KDAL

UNDATED (KDAL) - The American Petroleum Institute (API) says the Renewable Fuel Standard and its ethanol mandate is outdated and its continued implementation could result in dire c...

Felmy: The Renewable Fuel Standard Failure - John Felmy, Roanoke Times

When the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was passed by Congress about a decade ago, it was supposed to be the answer to America's so-called 'addiction to oil.' By forcing refiners to...

API Calls for RFS Repeal Rather Than Point of Obligation Change - Erin Voegele, Biomass Magazine

The American Petroleum Institute recently spoke out against efforts to move the point of obligation under the renewable fuel standard (RFS). The American Fuel and Petrochemical Man...

Letter: LNG's Role in Energy Mix Overstated - Elizabeth Treseder, Gloucester Times

To the editor:Mike Dyer’s response to the recent op-ed by Carl Gustin (“Gas pipeline needed to ensure energy mix,” Sept. 7) on the need for additional natural gas...

Fracking Has A Week Of Huge Legal Wins In Ohio - Andrew Follett, Daily Caller

Anti-hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activists suffered a pair of major legal defeats in Ohio when the state Supreme Court refused to put anti-fracking measures on the ballot in...

After Early Losses, Industry Stops Anti-Fracking Measures - Tripp Baltz, Bloomberg BNA

Sept. 20 — The oil and natural gas industry in Colorado was losing the public relations game.One industry association executive said it was “caught flat-footed” a...

Oil Group Says Disputed Pipeline Went Through Proper Process - Kyle Feldscher, Washington Examiner

The lobbying group representing the oil industry wants to see the rule of law upheld in a court case over the future of a controversial pipeline in North Dakota. Speaking to report...

Pipeline Protesters Out of Step with America, Oil Industry Leader Says - Kyle Feldscher, Washington Examiner

Native American protesters blocking the construction of an oil pipeline from North Dakota southwest to Illinois are stopping critical energy infrastructure, a top energy official s...

Fracking Denied Credit as Obama Administration Touts 20-year Carbon Emissions Low - Valerie Richardson, Washington Times

The Obama administration is heralding the nearly 20-year low in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as President Obama prepares to talk climate change in China, but so far the fracking r...

API Outlines Initial Concerns with BOEM's Draft Gulf PEIS - Nick Snow, Oil & Gas Journal

Mitigation measures that would require halting of oil and gas operations when dolphins are in the vicinity and proposed minimum separation distances for seismic surveys running sim...

Industry Stands for Dakota Access Pipeline - Daniel Graeber, UPI

Industry leaders said moving forward with the Dakota Access pipeline is central to keeping the U.S. shale oil sector a strong component of the national economy....

Oil Industry To Obama: We Have Done Way More To Slash CO2 Emissions Than You - Andrew Follett, Daily Caller

The oil and gas industry has done more to cut U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through hydraulic fracturing than the Obama administration's anti-fossil fuel policies, according ...

API Chief on Obama Halting Dakota Access Pipeline: We No Longer Honor the Rule of Law in the United States - Penny Starr, CSN News

Jack Gerard, CEO and president of the trade association American Petroleum Institution (API), said on Thursday that President Barack Obama’s decision to override a federal ju...

Safety is the Top Value of the Oil and Gas Industry - Tim Wigley & Dan Haley & Tracee Bentley, Denver Post

Oil and natural gas workers are tough people. They work hard, often in very difficult environments. Their work is critical to each and every one of us....

U.S. Could Meet Climate Goals without Obama Rules, Industry Analysis Shows - Kyle Feldscher, Washington Examiner

Even without the Obama administration's signature environmental regulation, the U.S. could meet its carbon emissions goals for the global climate agreement if natural gas use in th...

Progress: U.S. Carbon Emissions Decline - Benjamin Hulac, ClimateWire

Thanks mostly to less coal use at power plants, emissions in the first half of 2016 were lowest since 1991. The release of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in the first half of t...

EPA: U.S. Carbon Emissions Down 4.9 Percent - Robert Moore, Daily Energy Insider

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released figures on Tuesday showing that carbon emissions from power plants, oil drilling, factories and other industrial sources are down...

The Path to a Bipartisan Energy Agenda - Mark Mills, RealClearPolicy

POLICIES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION. PART 11: ENERGYThis is the last in a series on the major policy ideas from Left and Right that should guide the next presidential......

Knowledge Is Power: The Future of Energy - Rob Tracinski, RealClearPolitics

Matthew Boulton, of the 18th-century engineering firm Boulton & Watt, once boasted of his company's steam engines, "I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have: power....

Vote Republican to Keep the Lights On - Washington Examiner

Many people have heard of Ken Bone, the red-sweater-wearing undecided voter who stole the show at the second, town hall-style presidential debate. But few remember the question he ...

Docs Illuminate AGs Politicized Campaign Against Exxon - Chris Horner, RCEnergy

On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is subject...

Trump and Clinton: A Tale of Two Energy Futures - Bill Murray, RealClearPolitics

With Ken Bone’s 15 minutes of fame officially over, readers may take a moment to direct silent praise at the man who injected the one serious policy question on energy and th...

How New Energy Dynamics Fuel the Economy - M. Anthony Mills, RealClearPolitics

The seventh part in a weekly series of articles RCP is publishing through Election Day to explore policymakers' decisions regarding this crucial sector of the economyIn 1973, the m...

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