“Keep It In The Ground” activist groups across the country were out in force this week to applaud the news that three major oil and natural gas pipelines have been halted or outright cancelled despite the tremendous economic benefits the projects bring and the importance...
Energy, the environment, and climate change have played prominent roles in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. Candidates have made these issues a key part of their platforms, pressured by environmental activists pushing for radical “Keep It In the Ground” policy proposals that would undercut American...
Since the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was first introduced in 1973, environmental activist groups – like the Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity – have exploited the ESA as a tool to block infrastructure development and further an anti-fossil fuel agenda. In reality, these...
Colorado is set to get a big Christmas gift after Governor Jared Polish finally got his wish this week by successfully lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency to classify the state as a “serious” ozone pollution violator in a move aimed squarely at the oil and...
“Keep It In the Ground” activist groups have added a self-proclaimed “sophisticated” effort to their misinformation campaign to stop oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands. The groups have bolstered their total war approach by filing formal protests to nearly every lease application across...
Ohio’s shale production has been steadily increasing in recent years. In the third quarter of 2018, the last quarter of available data, Ohio experienced a more-than-30 percent increase in both oil and natural gas production over the same quarter in 2017. Despite the vocal opposition...
California remains one of the nation’s most significant oil and gas producing states but very little of that production happens on public lands. In the past several months, a series of New York Times articles have suggested that the Trump Administration and the energy industry...
A recent National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report calls for a ban on fracking in the Sunshine State by downplaying the importance of Florida’s longstanding oil and natural gas industry while peddling a combination of fearmongering and misinformation. At the heart of NRDC’s argument is...
EID has been exposing the underhanded “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) tactics aimed at halting oil and gas development in the Wayne National Forest for years, including the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) deliberate efforts to obstruct the federal mineral leasing and permitting process....
The New York Times published a story Saturday that attempts to advance the narrative that the Trump administration has created a Wild West free-for-all on federal lands by leasing acreage at a breakneck pace while working “hand in glove” with the oil and natural gas...
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), a Tucson, Ariz.-based environmental activist group, has used the legal system for years to delay federal leasing of minerals. These delays are costly not only for federal and state government coffers, but for the local communities and forests CBD...
Ohio landowners recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to discuss the continued Bureau of Land Management (BLM) delays that have resulted in a seven-year prohibition of oil and natural gas development on private acreage adjacent to and under the Wayne National Forest. The National Association of...