Nov 02 Biden administration acknowledges impacts of oil and gas sales on public land, but hasn’t stopped them By Matthew Brown, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Nov 02 U.S. says oil and gas sales damage climate, but won’t quit them yet By Matthew Brown, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jun 25 Congress votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump By Matthew Daly, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jun 16 Federal judge blocks Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases By Associated Press 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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Jan 14 Watch 7:05 Obama administration announces goal to rein in methane leaks By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching
Jun 19 How innovation in oil and gas production is giving the U.S. a competitive edge By Robert Bryce U.S. oil and natural gas output is soaring. But less than a decade ago, no one saw it coming. Even industry executives were signalling that production had peaked. But innovations that have made drilling technology "smaller, faster, lighter, denser, cheaper"… Continue reading