U.S. President Joe Biden announces the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as part of administration efforts to lower gasolin...
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Alex Epstein’s Case For Using More Oil, Coal And Natural Gas
SEPTEMBER 19: Picture taken 19 September 1984 in the North Sea of the Norwegian oil drilling rig … [+] “Statfjord B”. (Photo credit should read STF/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Gett...
Biden announces new funding to make homes more energy efficient
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles, a...
5 New Reports Show Wind And Solar Power Can Cripple Putin, Secure Climate Goals
Solar technology in Hemau, Bayern, the world’s biggest aerea for solar energy, Constructed in 2002, … [+] Germany, The total module area amounted to 34, 960qm2. (Photo by plus49/Constructi...
Fact Checking The Fact Checkers
RUSSIA-MANIPULATED PICTURE-YEZHOV From left to right: Kliment Vorochilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Josef … [+] Stalin and Nikolai Iejov aka Nikolai Yezhov, pose at the shore of the the Moscow -Volga ...
Farmers Can Profit By Setting Aside Marginal Lands As Habitat
A combine harvester amid wheat in Kent, United Kingdom, using computerised technology and GPS to … [+] record yield at each point in the field. Getty Images Farmers may lose money when they fill...
The Concept Of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, And How To Measure Them For Carbon Management By Fossil Energy And Other Companies. Part 1.
Emissions from petrochemical plant on Teesside, UK. Getty Images There is a growing need for companies to adopt carbon management, meaning to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Bankers and p...
With The Ukraine War, The Green Chickens Have Come Home To Roost
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian servicemen ride on tanks towards the front line with Russian forces in the … [+] Lugansk region of Ukraine on February 25, 2022. – Ukrainian forces fought off Rus...
‘In The 1920’s They Were Talking About Global Freezing’
Fox Business host Stuart Varney interviews Donald Trump on “Varney & Company” Fox Business Network In an exclusive interview Monday on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company Monda...
Coal is a ‘stupid investment’: UN chief Antonio Guterres
UN Secretary General António Guterres photographed at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 11, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.N. Secretary General issu...
California slashes supplies to water agencies amid record drought
A cracked lake bed at Nicasio Reservoir during a drought in Nicasio, California, on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California water officials on Friday said the...
Dictator Inspires UN To Adopt Resolution Promoting Cycling To Combat Climate Change
Cyclists attach banner to their bicycles on the transport day at COP26 in Glasgow. Carlton Reid The 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 15 March stating that the...
Russia And Ukraine — Oil And Gas Fallout For The World, Now And Looking Ahead.
Smoke rises from a power plant in eastern Ukraine after being shelled. AFP via Getty Images Martin Rylance is the Discipline Lead and Distinguished Advisor for Reservoir and Well Enhancement at THREE6...
Democrats urge Biden to restart climate negotiations in stalled plan
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Germanna Community College February 10, 2022 in Culpeper. Virginia. Win McNamee | Getty Images More than 80 House Democrats this week called on Presi...
Europe’s ocean energy installations surge back to pre-Covid levels
An overhead view of a tidal turbine from Orbital Marine Power on September 6, 2021. William Edwards | AFP | Getty Images European installations of tidal and wave energy capacity jumped in 2021, as the...
Biden restores California ability to set its own auto pollution rules
Cars make their way toward downtown L.A. during the morning commute on April 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration is restoring California’s aut...
Good For The Environment, Consumers, And Auto Companies, Bad For Oil Companies
Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks during an event at … [+] the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Regan announc...
Why a California city is trying to build the state’s last power plant
People gathered in Glendale in February to protest the city’s approval to build a fossil-fueled power plant. Courtesy of Morgan Goodwin Glendale, a Los Angeles suburb that’s home to Walt D...
Exxon To Mount A Major Hydrogen, CCS Project At Its Baytown Complex
BAYTOWN, TX – The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery Complex. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Getty Images As part of its expanding Low Carbon Solutions business unit, ExxonMobil announced plans on...
Biden’s Clean Industry Policies Could Be Among Most Consequential U.S. Climate Actions
President Biden’s State of the Union speech highlighted actions he has taken to address climate change and strengthen the United States economy. This includes a range of ambitious policies to reduce U...
Climate Change Worse Than Expected, UN Report Finds
Topline Human-driven climate change is already causing widespread devastation and the world has a “brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future,” according to the latest assessment of ...
More Than 3 Billion Lives Now Threatened By Global Warming, UN Warns
A young climate activist wears an oxygen mask at a demonstration protesting deforestation in … [+] Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP via Getty Images Human-caused climate change is now dealing damage to e...
US offshore wind auction in NY, NJ raises a record $4.37 billion
Offshore wind farm. davee hughes uk | Moment | Getty Images The federal government on Friday announced a record $4.37 billion sale of six offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York and New Jersey...
Biden administration pausing new oil and gas leases amid legal battle
An oil pumpjack (L) operates as another (R) stands idle in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration is delaying decisi...
USPS moves ahead with plan to spend billions on gas vehicles
A U.S. Postal Service worker prepares packages for delivery during Cyber Monday in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. Postal...
Soaring Gas Prices Could Have Been Mitigated If Energy Sector Plugged Huge Methane Leaks, IEA Says
Topline Methane leaks from the energy sector are much higher than what national governments claim, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, adding the industry could slash emissions of the high...
Climate Change Could Drive Wildfire Risk Up 50% By End Of Century, UN Warns
Topline Global warming and changing land use is set to drive up the risk of extreme wildfires by 50% by 2100, according to a landmark report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) publishe...
Kerfuffle Between Texas And BlackRock Is Not As Simple As It Seems
Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Financial Management Inc., speaks … [+] during the One Planet Summit in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. Photographer: ...
Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year
Transmission towers are shown on June 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which controls approximately 90% of the power in Texas, has requested Texas residen...
$1 Billion USDA Program Will Fund Pilot Projects For The Development Of Climate-Smart-Commodity Markets
No-till soybeans following corn – a practice that can lead to carbon sequestration NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service, USDA) On February 7, 2022, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a...
Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever
That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...