Shale Gas and Fracking Important to Manufacturers’ Competitiveness
Today the National Association of Manufacturers joined 118 other business groups in sending a letter to President Obama on the importance of shale gas and hydraulic fracturing. It’s essential that...
View ArticleWill 2012 Be Another Big Year for Shale?
On the energy front, one of the biggest stories of 2011 was the development of shale gas. And, if the current trends continue, it will likely be the story of 2012 as well. The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleInterior Sends Fracking Regs to the White House
This week the Secretary Salazar, Department of Interior (DOI), sent proposed draft regulations to the White House on hydraulic fracturing activity on federal lands. Typically the regulation of oil and...
View ArticleFacts Get in the Way of a Controversy Yet Again
On Friday, EPA announced that it had finished testing the drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania–a town that has become the epicenter of the hydraulic fracturing debate–and found no contaminants at...
View ArticleStudy Shows Fracking Emissions Lower than EPA Estimates
API and ANGA released a study today calling into serious question the methane emissions data EPA has been using for unconventional gas wells. According to the API/ANGA survey, methane emissions from...
View ArticleMixed Messages on Fracking Regulations
On April 13, President Obama issued an executive order creating an interagency task force to coordinate federal oversight and regulation of shale gas development. The executive order was made in...
View ArticleBLM Redraft of Controversial Fracking Rule a Welcome Sign for Manufacturers
This afternoon, in a victory for manufacturers and energy producers the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it would redraft a proposed hydraulic fracturing...
View ArticleEPA Fracking Regs Would Drive Up Costs, Add Red Tape
This morning Politico reported that former Clinton EPA Administrator and former Obama Director of the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner said that the EPA should regulate...
View ArticleStudy: BLM Rule Will Drive Up Energy Costs
Earlier this week Governor Mary Fallin, of Oklahoma, wrote Jeffrey Zients, the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rule...
View ArticleEPA Study Assesses Hydraulic Fracturing: Key to American Energy Resources
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a much anticipated study looking at the impacts of hydraulic fracturing. As concluded by the EPA, hydraulic fracturing, or the innovative,...
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