This weekend our country celebrates 239 years of independence, as well as our collective belief in equality and unalienable rights – enumerated in the Declaration of Independence as “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Heading into Independence Day 2015, it’s fitting to draw some connections between American energy and American life, liberty and the… Keep reading →
Elite Oil Fields Redefine Meaning of Crude’s ‘Big Three’ CNBC: Move over ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips—there’s a new “Big Three” in U.S. energy production. And they’re not companies. In a new update to its drilling productivity report from last week, the Energy Information Agency said North Dakota’s Bakken and Texas’ Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale are quietly generating… Keep reading →
Coal remains the workhorse of the US electricity sector, but its future is murkier than ever.
The industry has been on a campaign for nearly a decade to educate Americans about the extent to which their electricity comes from coal, but have had difficulty turning that into a wider recognition of the contributions comparatively cheap power have made in boosting US economic performance. Keep reading →
