Trump executive order could lead to reversal of drilling bans in US Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic oceans A newly signed Trump executive order could extend offshore oil and gas drilling to areas that were previously deemed off limits. The move is an effort to increase domestic production, however, industry demand for acreage is close to […]
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How low can the costs of US shale oil production go? By Ross McCracken, Platt’s Managing editor, Energy Economist Even with oil prices hovering around the $50/b mark, the US rig count has increased rapidly while E&P companies continue to record substantial reductions in well drilling costs. The increase in new well oil production per rig
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Governor Cuomo banned fracking in New York, yet to provide sustainable solution for job loss, taxes, and other revenue Nicole Jacobs, EnergyInDepth As expected, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill Tuesday that officially bans fracking in Maryland. This development became an inevitable after Hogan’s March 17 announcement that he would support such a measure
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River report uses scare tactics pushing misinformation about threats that don’t actually exist by Nicole Jacobs, EnergyInDepth American Rivers has just released its annual list of the top-10 “most endangered” U.S. rivers, which is based on decisions the group feels could impact the rivers and communities around them. Virginia’s Rappahannock River happens to come in
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National monuments may be rescinded or resized On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order which could see over two dozen national monuments either rescinded or resized. The move is part of the Trump administration’s push to open up more federal lands to drilling, mining and other development and has industry cheering and environmentalists
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Executive orders would make it easier to develop onshore, offshore energy President Donald Trump will sign executive orders later this week which will be on energy and the environment, making it easier for the US to develop energy on and offshore, according to a White House official on Sunday. “This builds on previous executive actions that have
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Hardest hit sectors would be iron and steel WASHINGTON, DC – Meeting the commitments President Obama made as part of the Paris climate accord could cost the US economy $3 trillion and 6.5 million industrial sector jobs by 2040, according to a comprehensive new study prepared by NERA Economic Consulting. The study was commissioned by
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Exxon Valdez is most studied industrial incident to date, no study on Valdez spill and climate change by Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth How irrelevant and desperate has the #ExxonKnew campaign become? Well, they’re now claiming that global warming caused the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, and that Exxon should have known it would happen. The claims
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by Jackie Stewart, EnergyInDepth After the Columbus Dispatch exposed how teachers at Little Dreamers, Big Believers daycare forced preschool children to submit public comment to protest fracking around the Wayne National forest, criticism from the community has come pouring in. According to the Columbus Dispatch, the teachers told children to make drawings of their opposition
