Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Tag: petrochemical

House to debate amendment with big implications for expanding petrochemical industry

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is currently considering extending $1.9 billion in federal loan guarantees to the Appalachia Development Group.

Energy Department hires a top cheerleader for petrochemical hub before issuing...

On November 9, the Energy Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) named as its new director former West Virginia University Professor Brian Anderson.

As industry pushes billion-dollar fracked petrochemical projects, state regulators struggle to...

“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”

$83 billion West Virginia petrochemical deal with China on skids due...

The deal would be worth more than the total gross domestic product of West Virginia, which was $76.8 billion in 2017.

POPULAR

Different battles, same struggle: The US war on China, Venezuela, and the international left

We must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all.

Voter backlash defies MAGA’s anti-reality hokum, entrapped by its own BS, rip-offs, venom &...

Trump promised unremitting revenge but that is a sharp, merciless two-edged sword about to redound on him and MAGA.

Trump quietly expands corporate tax breaks while threatening states over food aid

Treasury guidance weakens corporate minimum tax as the Agriculture Department warns states to “undo” full November SNAP payments amid shutdown confusion.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.

Bill Gates gave $3.5M to think tank run by climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg 

Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.