Big Red The Arithmetic Of Fracking Forbes - Ed HirsWill a ban on fracking benefit the nation? Could it happen? Democratic presidential candidates and some incumbent officeholders have recently called for a ban on the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas
Big RedOil Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown VICE - Nafeez AhmedWe are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible. A government research report produced by Finland warns the
Big RedOil Refineries Refineries are spewing cancer-causing benzene as Trump slashes enforcement Salon - Mike LudwigExhaust billows from Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) On a spring evening in 2018, the sky across the New Orleans metro area
Big RedNews Trump Opens National Monument Land to Energy Exploration The New York Times - Coral DavenportWASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to allow mining and energy drilling on nearly a million acres of land in southern Utah that had once been protected as part of a major
Big RedFracking Rust Belt residents aren't as enthusiastic about fracking as the media depicts Salon - Nicole KarlisA large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images) President Donald Trump's
Big RedClean Water Rule The Trump Administration Wants to Set Water Safety Back 50 Years ecowatch.com - By Jeff Turrentine Land developers, manufacturers and Big Agriculture — among other interested parties for whom polluting streams and wetlands has been a normal part of …
Big RedPolitics The Trump Administration Wants to Set Water Safety Back 50 Years NRDC With their latest rollback, the president and the EPA chief show that they either don’t understand how water pollution works—or simply don’t care. By …
Big RedBernie Sanders Sanders Introduces Bills to Ban Fracking, Require National Cleanup Effort of Drinking Water ecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson While Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been in Washington this week for the impeachment trial, he has put forth two bills to help the environment. On …
Big RedBusiness Is America’s Fossil Fuel Empire Collapsing? Forbes - Daniel ArayaSince the close of World War II, the United States has overseen an expanding global order built on fossil fuels. That era has come to an end. Where coal powered the British Empire, and oil powered the
Big RedOil & Gas Industry Oil Bankruptcies Are Piling Up Forbes - Robert RapierLaw firm Haynes and Boone recently released its updated Energy Bankruptcy Reports. These reports cover North American oil and gas producers, oilfield services and midstream bankruptcies from the beginning
Big RedEnvironment US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought The Guardian - ReutersThe contamination of US drinking water with manmade “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report
Big Red Integrity Tests Done on Arkansas Oil Pipeline That Ruptured U.S. News & World Report - Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A company tested the integrity of a segment of pipeline that has been idle since it ruptured in 2013, spilling 5,000 barrels …
Big Red California sues over Trump plan to open land to fracking USA TODAY - Gabrielle CanonCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday said he and other high-ranking California officials and agencies are joining the fight to stop the Trump Administration from opening more than a million
Big Red Trump Admin Ordered ‘Climate Censorship’ in Plans to Lease Texas Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane An environmental group has uncovered another case of "climate censorship" ordered by the Trump administration. Administration officials had references …
Big Red The Philly Oil Refinery That Exploded Was Already Leaking Tons of a Toxic Chemical That Causes Leukemia and Infertility VICE - Alex LubbenThe enormous explosion at the East Coast’s largest refinery last June spewed tons of corrosive chemicals into the air, but a new investigation has found that the Philadelphia facility was previously leaking
Big RedVenezuela Three years after $1 billion Venezuela deal, U.S. oilfield firm shuts doors Reuters - Liz Hampton(Reuters) - An Oklahoma oilfield company that played a central role in Venezuela’s high profile attempt to convince the world it could halt production declines at its dilapidated oilfields has shut its
Big Red The Hidden Signs That the Oil Industry Is Heading for a Reckoning VICE - Geoff DembickiA major U.S. oil and gas producer whose business model is premised on denying the urgency of global temperature rise was forced last month to acknowledge reality. In a move that reverberated across the
Big Red Shale's Amazing, World-Changing, Lousy Decade Bloomberg - Liam Denning A historic boom in production was a bust for stock prices. A historic boom in production was a bust for stock prices. In between dealing with margin …
Big Red Oil Companies Were Not Held Accountable for 10.8 Million Gallons of Oil Spilled in Gulf of Mexico ecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson Now, 14 years later, not one assessment of the damage to natural resources has been carried out. There is no plan to help restore impacted …
Big Red The Permian natural gas problem is growing Los Angeles Times - BloombergAmerica’s top shale field is becoming increasingly gassy as drilling slows down, undercutting profits for explorers at a time when investors are demanding better returns. Natural gas has long been a nuisance
Big Red 600 Gallons of Diesel Fuel Just Spilled Near One of the Most Biodiverse Islands in the World VICE - Alex LubbenMore than 600 gallons of diesel fuel have spilled into the ocean near the Galapagos archipelago, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. A crane loading an electric generator flipped over
Big Red Catastrophic Ohio Methane Leak Stayed Hidden Until a Satellite Found It Live Science - Rafi Letzter A little-noticed 2018 methane leak at an Exxon Mobil site in Ohio was one of the worst in recent memory, outpacing the methane emissions from the …
Big Red Shale Slowdown Takes Economic Toll The Wall Street Journal. - Rebecca ElliottMIDLAND, Texas—America’s hottest oil-drilling regions—such as this one at the heart of the Permian Basin—are seeing their economies soften as shale producers slash spending, leading to emptier hotels,
Big Red Fracking leaves heavy footprint in Argentina's Patagonia phys.org - by Nina Negron Pumpjack oil wells peck like giant birds at the ground, plumes of yellow flames flare from gas pipelines, lakes accumulate contaminated …
Big RedOil & Gas Industry America blows past the world in oil and natural gas - Axios Axios - Amy Harder America is poised to produce far more oil and natural gas over the next five years than any other country in the world, according to a new report. Why …
Big Red Mexico makes biggest oil discovery in 32 years as ‘500 MILLION barrels found in field’ thesun.co.uk - Nika Shakhnazarova MEXICO has made the biggest oil discovery in 32 years after finding the equivalent of 500 million barrels of oil in a field in the Gulf coast state …
Big Red The U.S. Dominates New Oil And Gas Production Forbes - Jude ClementeThe American fracking for oil and natural gas boom will continue on through the 2020s. And why not? Since fracking took off in 2008, we have more than doubled our proven oil reserves to ~65 billion barrels.
Big Red Oil & Gas Leaks Crocodile Tears Over Nuclear Waste Storage Forbes - James ConcaIn the absence of a permanent disposal site for America’s commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and the lousy characteristics of Yucca Mountain, the obvious and best path forward is to put all of the waste
Big Red Major pipeline reaches milestone as Line 3's Canadian section goes into service CBC News - Tony Seskus A major pipeline project — long anticipated by the Canadian oilpatch — reached a significant milestone Sunday as Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline from …
