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A pump jack operates at a well site leased by Devon Energy Production Company near Guthrie, Oklahoma

Nation Apr 14

Oklahoma has only slightly increased oil and gas production during the Ukraine war. Here’s why

By Adam Kemp

World Nov 02

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Biden administration acknowledges impacts of oil and gas sales on public land, but hasn’t stopped them

The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change.

By Matthew Brown, Associated Press

Science Nov 02

FILE PHOTO: Pump jacks operate in front of a drilling rig in an oil field in Midland
U.S. says oil and gas sales damage climate, but won’t quit them yet

The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change.

By Matthew Brown, Associated Press

Politics Jun 25

Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. The primary component of natural gas is methane, which is odorless when it comes directly out of the gas well. In addition to methane, natural gas typically contains other hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane, butane, and pentanes. Raw natural gas may also contain water vapor, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen, and other compounds. (Source: www.earthworksaction.org). As of July 2014, roughly 30 percent of the Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images
Congress votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump

The House gave final legislative approval Friday to a resolution that would undo a Trump-era rule that relaxed requirements of a 2016 Obama administration rule targeting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Politics Jun 16

Federal judge blocks Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states.

By Associated Press

Apr 01

Biden infrastructure plan would spend $16 billion to clean up old mines, oil wells

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

President Joe Biden’s plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines.

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Mar 09

U.S. officials say report on oil and gas sale ban due by summer

By Matthew Brown, Associated Press

A long-term ban on sales from the nation's vast, publicly-owned oil and gas reserves to address climate change would fulfill a campaign pledge from Democratic President Joe Biden.

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Apr 21

The price of oil fell below $0. What happens next?

By Ryan Chilcote

The stuff that makes the world go round, the lifeblood of the global economy, was worthless -- more stunning evidence of how this pandemic is rocking the global economy.

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Aug 30

Politics of climate change put corporations in tough spot

By Tom Krisher, Associated Press

Companies are being forced to choose between supporting the Trump administration's deregulation policies that could boost profits or opposing them to win over environmentally conscious consumers.

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Jan 14

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Obama administration announces goal to rein in methane leaks

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The Obama administration announced a plan to significantly cut methane emissions produced by gas and gas wells by the year 2025 through executive action. Judy Woodruff talks to Coral Davenport of The New York Times and Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton…

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