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Energy Hearings This Week
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By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
The oil and gas industry has a massive wastewater problem. And if the growing dialogue about new ways of dealing with it are any indication, it may get worse if we aren’t careful. Cost concerns, pressure to conserve water, and other factors have led some oil and gas companies to consider new ways to manage… Keep reading →
Myanmar’s growing humanitarian crisis is fueling calls for jihad by global extremist groups and threatening to draw Middle East and Asian fighters into a new front. The Myanmar military’s crackdown on the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority group, has emerged as a major policy dilemma for the Trump administration as it seeks to calm the… Keep reading →
New Poll: Voters In Ohio Counties Oppose Nuclear Bailouts
By Energy Tomorrow Blog
Ohio voters continue to oppose bailouts for nuclear plants. As a statewide poll showed this summer, a new poll by API Ohio shows big opposition to a proposal to let nuclear plant owner FirstEnergy charge its customers a special fee to increase funding for its plants in three counties that are near FirstEnergy’s headquarters and its Davis-Besse and Perry… Keep reading →
In Tackling Methane, Exxon Signals Commitment To Maximize Opportunity For New Mexico
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
An announcement last week from one of the country’s largest natural gas producers may have a major positive impact on revenue and clean air in New Mexico. XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil that made a $6 billion investment in acreage in New Mexico’s Permian Basin earlier this year, has now announced a set of commitments to “continually… Keep reading →
What’s New In The Methane Debate?
By Charles Sartain | Gray Reed & McGraw
Here are a few selected stories on the extent to which fracking contributes to rising levels of methane and, maybe, to climate change.
API and a number of other groups are pleased to be participating in National Clean Energy Week, which is highlighting readily abundant energy needed to power homes and businesses that’s also helping the U.S. reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We realize not everyone thinks API and some others fit in the clean energy conversation. But the fact… Keep reading →
Leading Methane Commitment From Exxon’s U.S. Driller: Why It Matters
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
The degree to which the oil and gas industry can be trusted to play a constructive role in a low carbon future depends in no small measure on whether and how it reduces climate pollution today. That’s why company insiders, investors, and policy makers should take careful note of the sensible and innovative commitments announced by… Keep reading →
What The Frack Is Up With BLM’s Fracking Rule?
By SETH JAFFE | FOLEY HOAG LLP - ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed as prudentially unripe appeals of last year’s District Court decision striking down BLM’s 2015 fracking rule.
Here are some of my thoughts after this week’s news that San Francisco and Oakland have filed lawsuits against five oil and natural companies, arguing that the companies should pay for sea walls to protect the cities in case ocean levels rise due to changing climate: First, the courts aren’t the place to address climate change… Keep reading →
