Tag: regulations

July 22, 2024

The UAE Consensus agreed at COP28 to triple global renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency gains by 2030 requires countries to overcome structural barriers impeding the energy transitions progress. The World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) […]

May 16, 2017

A 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 […]

February 2, 2017

The Republican-led US House of Representatives on Wednesday killed two Obama-era rules, one intended to root out corruption in the extraction sector and one aimed at reducing stream pollution. Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Securities […]

August 30, 2016

Many U.S. taxpayers would probably be surprised to learn they subsidize oil and gas production by at least $4 billion each year. Indeed, given federal budget concerns, not to mention the urgency of climate change, President Obama tried to cut […]

June 29, 2016

Environmental groups and the Obama Administration say they plan to appeal a federal judge’s decision to overturn Bureau of Land Management’s fracking rules. A ruling an attorney for these groups said the ruling will have far-reaching impacts over future regulation of […]

June 23, 2016

California’s oil and gas industry emitted approximately 270,000 tons of methane in 2014 – nearly three times the gas released during the Aliso Canyon storage facility disaster. This wasted methane – primarily natural gas – is worth over $50 million, […]

June 23, 2016

A ruling by a federal judge that blocked the Obama administration’s rules for hydraulic fracturing has set a very comfortable precedent for oil and gas companies, David Deckelbaum, analyst and director at KeyBanc Capital Markets, said Wednesday. “They are going […]

March 28, 2016

The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday it would partner with a private firm hoping to build a transmission line to carry wind power from the High Plains to the southeastern United States, angering Arkansas politicians who believe the federal […]