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Industry seizes opportunities amid challenges in election year

Feb 6, 2012

Conventional wisdom dictates that not much gets accomplished in Washington, DC, when it's a presidential election year.

Obama administration outlines Arctic energy policy initiatives

Feb 7, 2012 Obama administration officials announced a series of initiatives that they said are aimed at bringing the best available science to energy-related decisions in the Arctic. The initiatives include d...

US House panel passes bill requiring more studies of E15 impacts

Feb 7, 2012 The US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved legislation that would require the US Environmental Protection Agency to further study possible impacts of increasing allowable ethano...

Richardson proposes West Bison Basin waterflood

Feb 6, 2012 The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposed waterflood program in the Jurassic Nugget formation and new oil and gas wells on public land in Fremont County, Wyo., 20 mi...

Watching Government: GOP pushes back on Keystone

Feb 6, 2012 If there was ever doubt that congressional Republicans would accept US President Barack Obama's Jan. 18 ruling against the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, it disappeared completely on Jan....

Cabot questions EPA plans to test water wells in Pennsylvania

Feb 6, 2012 Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has offered to meet with US Environmental Protection Agency representatives to discuss the EPA's plans to test the water wells of some homes in Dimock, Pa., a township wit...

Renewable energy stool

Feb 6, 2012

The Obama administration's renewable energy stool, with its three legs of biofuels, solar, and wind, has now tipped over, as all three legs start to crumble.

API, WEA officials warn of threats from federal over-regulation

Feb 3, 2012 Improved technology and increasing production has improved the US oil and gas outlook, but federal over-regulation could imperil realization of a brighter energy future, officials from two industry...

BLM issues draft programmatic EIS for western oil shale, tar sands

Feb 3, 2012 The US Bureau of Land Management published a draft programmatic environmental impact statement and possible land use amendments for federally administered oil shale and tar sands acreage in Colorad...

Pavillion draft report did not condemn fracing, EPA official says

Feb 2, 2012 The US Environmental Protection Agency’s draft report of its investigation of possible groundwater contamination from natural gas exploration and production near Pavillion, Wyo., never implied that...

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