Commercialization, Conventional Fuels
August 8, 2019
Via: ForbesOil prices have tumbled in the past month well into bear-market territory. The market-opening price for WTI on Thursday was slightly above $52 a barrel. The Brent international benchmark price was just above $57 a barrel. The oil sector is […]
Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy
July 25, 2019
Via: ForbesEarlier this year, President Trump gave a speech to energy workers in Louisiana, where he shared his belief that wind power is unreliable: “When the wind doesn’t blow you don’t watch television that night. Your wife says, ‘what the hell […]
July 23, 2019
Via: ForbesWhen Special Counsel Robert Mueller is testifying before Congress this Wednesday, Donald Trump will be the guest of a coal magnate in Wheeling, W.V. He will once again make the case for “big beautiful coal,” although the facts don’t bear […]
Conventional Fuels, Energy Economics, Nuclear
July 16, 2019
Via: World Nuclear NewsIn their filing of January 2018, two mining companies, Ur-Energy USA and Energy Fuels Resources, had contended that imports are pushing US uranium production to the brink of collapse, and asked the Trump administration to impose a quota requiring that […]
July 8, 2019
Via: ForbesDonald Trump’s understanding environmental laws emanate from his days as a builder — a time when he had to work with local officials for zoning and permitting purposes. It has skewed his thinking while necessitating that he donate to those […]
June 6, 2019
Via: CNBC energyThe increasingly hard-line approach toward Iran taken by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is a “strategic mistake,” a former U.S. Energy Secretary said Thursday. At the Ecosperity Conference in Singapore, Ernest J. Moniz — who is currently the CEO of […]
April 29, 2019
Via: ForbesWaivers that allowed certain countries to continue importing Iranian oil without penalty will end next month, leading to a game of chicken between the Trump administration and some of the world’s largest economies. According to the White House announcement on […]
Commercialization, Conventional Fuels
April 26, 2019
Via: CNBC energyPresident Donald Trump on Friday said he “called up” OPEC and told the producer group to take action to bring down fuel costs, making a dubious claim that gasoline prices are already falling. Crude futures extended earlier losses following Trump’s […]
January 22, 2019
Via: ForbesWest Virginia may personify the trade war with China — a state with $84 billion on the line and money that would transform the area. State officials and economic developers are working hard behind the scenes. But they are hampered […]
Commercialization, Conventional Fuels
November 28, 2018
Via: ForbesHow low does President Donald Trump want oil prices to go? It’s become a crucial question for global oil markets and the U.S. oil industry after the president cheered the recent plunge to $50 a barrel, the lowest level since […]
November 1, 2018
Via: ForbesWhen the U.S. president makes his eighth speech in West Virginia, he should finally be honest with the citizens about the state of their economy and the direction that public policies should take. Words count. The economy globally is shifting […]
October 11, 2018
Via: ForbesDonald Trump’s trade war with China is hurting the same states he won in 2016. And that includes Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which sit atop the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale basin. Will the tariffs erode his political support not just […]
Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy
October 9, 2018
Via: ForbesSunday evening, I was watching pro football while my golden retriever cuddled on my lap. A political commercial appeared posing the question of whether America was the “greatest country on earth.” Interestingly, it pertained to a congressional race in West […]
August 21, 2018
Via: ForbesThe green energy economy has hit a red light, or more precisely, the Great Red Wall erected by Donald Trump. Tonight the president will hold a rally in West Virginia touting his latest plan to resurrect the coal sector that […]
August 9, 2018
Via: CNBC energyChina’s threat to slap tariffs on U.S. natural gas exports is injecting uncertainty into a construction boom for the multi-billion dollar facilities that ship American shale gas around the world. By the end of next year, six facilities in the […]
June 18, 2018
Via: Renewable Energy NewsPresident Donald Trump’s latest batch of proposed tariffs includes a familiar target — solar. Buried as an obscure-sounding item in a 10-page Trump administration list of Chinese products that are set to be taxed at an additional 25 percent are […]
June 6, 2018
Via: WSJ BusinessPresident Donald Trump’s efforts to revive coal mining have been criticized as picking winners. Actually, it’s more like picking losers: coal has become a sunset industry as cleaner energy sources rapidly get cheaper. If Mr. Trump succeeds at reversing the […]
May 16, 2017
Via: Greentech MediaA new study confirms what nearly every energy analyst (and even coal executives) have already said: President Donald Trump’s plan to bring back mining jobs won’t work. The report, written by a team at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Center […]
March 29, 2017
Via: Power EngineeringAs expected, President Donald Trump has signed a broad executive order for the Environmental Protection Agency that initiates a review of the Clean Power Plan. Additionally, the order rescinds a moratorium on coal mining on federal lands, rescinds former President […]
February 1, 2017
Via: CNBCU.S. President Donald Trump has promised to boost the U.S. fossil fuel industry and create more jobs by opening more areas to drillers, but there will be little real impact on the market in the short term, an energy consultant […]