Article By: EIA The United States likely surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest crude oil producer earlier this year, based on preliminary estimates in EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). In February, U.S. crude oil production exceeded that of Saudi Arabia for the

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Article By: Kallanish Energy The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation last week 260-146 authorizing small-scale exports of liquefied natural gas. Thirty-seven Democrats joined 223 Republicans in casting yes ballots, Kallanish Energy reports. Three Republicans and 143 Democrats

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Article By: Arabian Industry DNV GL’s latest report, 2018 Energy Transition Outlook, predicts that gas will overtake oil as the world’s primary energy source in 2026, and will account for 25 percent of the world’s energy by 2050. It also predicts that global oil demand will

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Article By: Zacks Energy Transfer Partners L.P.’s mega project, Dakota Access Pipeline, recently marked its one-year anniversary. Disregarding criticism from Native American tribes and environmental groups, the pipeline has been operational for a year now and proved to be a silver bullet for

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Article by: Wiley Online Library Abstract For several decades, philanthropists in the United States have played a behind‐the‐scenes role in framing climate change as a social problem. These foundations have defined climate change primarily as a pollution problem solvable by enacting a price on

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The first ever and award winning Utica Shale study to examine the root source of methane (CH4) linked to fracking has finally been published in a scientific journal. The long awaited multi-year University of Cincinnati (UC) groundwater study that found no impacts from fracking was finally

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Article By: The Vindicator And on the seventh try, the anti-fracking initiative in Youngstown failed again. But supporters won’t rest. “It’s not like we’re going to stop,” said Susie Beiersdorfer, a member of the Committee for the Youngstown Water Protection Bill of Rights, which backed the

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Article By: Forbes In my last column I discussed an apparent paradox: why, if solar panels and wind turbines are so cheap, do they appear to be making electricity so expensive? One big reason seems to be their inherently unreliable nature, which requires expensive additions to the electrical

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Article By: Hometown Source Billboards bearing the phrase “Wind Energy is NOT the Answer,” are springing up along major highways in southern Minnesota highlighting the abysmal failure wind energy has been in our state. The billboards were inspired by a recent report entitled “Energy Policy in

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Article By: Tulsa World OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Senate passed a tax-hike bill late Wednesday to provide funding for a teacher pay raise and a bill to increase those educators’ salaries. House Bill 1010XX passed by a vote of 36-10. The measure needed 36 votes for the supermajority required.

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