US Airstrikes Take Out 10 Percent Of ISIS Oil Fleet To Crush Revenues
Jonah Bennett The U.S. is finally taking the fight to one of Islamic State’s main revenue generators: oil. As part of a new campaign called...
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Trump Doubles Down On Wild Idea About Iraqi Oil
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Andrew Follett Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that former President George W. Bush should have “kept the oil” after invading Iraq. “And, I said, keep the oil,”...
Fracking, Not Renewables, Is Responsible For Emissions Reduction
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Andrew Follett The biggest cause of CO2 emissions reduction is America’s fracking natural gas boom, not solar or wind power, according to a study by the Manhattan Institute. The...
Environmentalists Help to Halt Another Shell Oil Project
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Steve Birr With pipeline projects mired in environmental battles and oil prices trapped below $50 a barrel, Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it is halting...
Study: Shale Gas Emissions Are Massively Overestimated
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Andrew Follett The amount of methane leaked from shale gas production has been massively overestimated according to a new study. The study was authored by University...
US Fire Sale On Oil Reserves Has China Buying
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Steve Birr The U.S. will start selling millions of barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as part of the bipartisan budget deal...
Judge To Obama: You Can’t Regulate Fracking On Federal Lands
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Michael Bastasch on September 30, 2015 A federal district court judge has sided with the petroleum industry and granted an injunction against enforcing the Obama...
Sorry, Saudis — Oil Prices Fall On Iran Nuke Deal
By Michael Bastasch U.S. and Iranian diplomats have agreed to end sanctions on the world’s largest Shi’ite Muslim country, causing oil prices to tumble as...
No Peak Oil: Proved U.S. Oil and Gas Reserves Continue To Increase
By Michael Bastasch Published: December 4, 2014 It was only four years ago that economist and New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman sounded the alarm...
North Dakota Oil Production Surpassed 1 Million Barrels Per Day
By Michael Bastasch Oil production is booming in North Dakota, hitting more than one million barrels per day in April and May, according to government...