WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy today offered a conditional commitment to guarantee loans of up to $2 billion to Lake Charles Methanol, LLC to construct the world’s first methanol production facility to employ carbon capture technology in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The captured carbon would be utilized for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in Texas.… Keep reading →
As previously reported here, President-elect Donald Trump’s victory could have profound implications for federal environmental regulation.
By now you may have heard that Rick Perry, former Governor of Texas, is President-elect Trump’s pick for Energy secretary. If appointed, he will be succeeding Samuel Bodman, Doctor of Science in chemical engineering from MIT; Steven Chu, PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley; and Ernest Moniz, PhD in theoretical physics from… Keep reading →
The Renewable Fuel Standard is one of many policies facing an uncertain future as power changes hands in the federal government.
Recent statements out of Washington and Riyadh have inadvertently widened the differences between the two allies, hindering the incoming U.S. administration’s options for resolving the Yemen conflict. On December 13, U.S. officials announced that the sale of about 16,000 guided munition kits to Saudi Arabia would be blocked due to concerns that the kingdom’s poorly… Keep reading →
In a piece authored for The Hill’s Congress Blog, the Institute for Policy Innovation’s Merrill Matthews argues that EPA’s final hydraulic fracturing study should keep the conclusion set out in the report’s 2015 draft, in which the agency said it found no evidence fracking has led to “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in… Keep reading →
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule.
The legal fight to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recent efforts to prevent oil and gas companies from wasting methane on public and tribal owned land continued yesterday. EDF and a coalition of local, regional, tribal and national allies filed a brief opposing efforts by industry organizations and a handful states to block… Keep reading →
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically change the federal government’s role and policies in relation to energy, the environment and climate change.
On Nov. 23, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final 2017 volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
