In an increasingly partisan world, there is one facet most Americans have in common: a desire for a thriving local economy. For Ohioans, that shared goal is attainable because of the state’s (and region’s) abundant energy supply. The Appalachian Basin, nicknamed the “Shale Crescent” region...
Armed with absolutely no evidence, ”Keep It In the Ground” activists Earthworks recently accused Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection of failing to adequately inspect contamination complaints during the COVID-19 outbreak. This serious accusation was not only false, but also a wholly irresponsible attempt to cause...
Colorado families scored a big win in federal court last week when a judge granted a motion to dismiss filed by the natural gas and oil industry, effectively ending a lawsuit that would have greatly inhibited energy production, the Denver Post reported. The lawsuit, filed...
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...
University of Colorado researcher Detlev Helmig is out with another study falsely blaming oil and natural gas production for poor air quality in the Denver Front Range. Helmig doesn’t actually publish anything new, instead reviewing old work that uses inaccurate measurements, ignores key context, and...
Consumers in New York may face the consequences of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to stymie natural gas pipeline development across the Empire State once again. In a new report, utility National Grid hints that it will “have to restrict new gas customer connections,” if the...
Flaring intensity in Texas is well below the historic highs of the 1950s and much lower than other nations around the world, according to a new Texas Railroad Commission report. As Commissioner Ryan Sitton, author of the report, explained: “Currently, Texas flaring levels – and...
Protesters have been wreaking havoc in Canada recently in attempts to block the construction of a pipeline that would move natural gas from British Columbia to an LNG facility on the Pacific coast. While these “Keep It In the Ground” activists say they are acting...
While Pennsylvanians continue to prosper thanks to growing natural gas production, their neighbors to the north in New York are meeting a much different fate, despite shared access to the Marcellus Shale. In the midst of the Great Recession, Pennsylvania experienced job and wage growth...
2019 was an all-around record-setting year for the Texas oil and natural gas industry, according to the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association’s fifth “State of Energy Report.” Thanks to technological innovation, Texas set historical oil and natural gas production records and increased job...
Rolling Stone author Justin Nobel has been spending a lot of time in the Appalachian Basin recently, and not because some of the biggest bands in history will be touring here this year, as one would expect from the music magazine. Instead, Nobel has been...
Despite all of the rhetoric to the contrary, the need to reduce global emissions is something the oil and natural gas industry and environmental activists alike agree on. And yet, in a move that is completely at odds with their claimed purpose, one of the...