Tag: gas
‘Nero drilling while Rome burns:’ US oil and gas production soars...
Experts warn that the rush for new oil and gas drilling in 2018 will have consequences for the climate, but there are ways to slow it down – or even stop it.
BLM lists sacred land outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in...
"Oil and gas has already devastated our state's air quality, water quality and flow, and public health. It's clear the Trump administration will stop at nothing to sacrifice public interest for private profits."
The fracking industry’s flaring problem may be worse than we thought
And even with the Trump administration rolling back a number of environmental regulations like the rules for methane flaring and venting, the oil and gas industry is looking for still more deregulation from the federal government.
At least 66 killed as pipeline explosion rocks Central Mexico
"What happened here should serve as an example for the whole nation to unite behind the fight that the president is carrying out against this ill."
Dakota Access Pipeline company misses deadline to plant 20,000 trees along...
"This really is not as much about the monetary amount as it is about awareness and influencing future behavior."
First ‘Red’ level tremor at UK fracking site put legal pause...
Cuadrilla Resources was forced by law to pause operations at its site in Lancashire, England when a tremor with a magnitude of 0.8 took place in the area Friday morning.
Why plans to turn America’s Rust Belt into a new plastics...
Climate implications make a petrochemical build-out risky, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from a fiscal perspective.
Arctic drilling a go with recent approval from the Trump administration
“This project sets us down a dangerous path of destroying the Arctic. An oil spill in the Arctic would be impossible to clean up and the region is already stressed by climate change.”
US oil exports are exceeding almost all predictions – thanks to fracking
The fracking boom in Texas and New Mexico and subsequent export boom is a shining example – illuminated by the flares of fracked gas – of exactly what not to be doing.
Trump’s pick to lead energy tech innovation program is invested in...
The backdrop to Lane Genatowski’s nomination is an overall uncertainty over the future of the very agency he’s supposed to lead.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.