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Once Burned, Twice Shy? Utica Shale Touted to Investors As Shale Drillers...
For the past several weeks, the drilling industry — hammered by bad financial results — has begun promoting its next big thing: the Utica shale, generating the sort of headlines you might have seen...
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Back to School: "Frackademia" Alive and Well at U.S. Universities, Says New...
The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) has published a timely “back to school” report concluding that “frackademia” is alive and well at U.S. universities. While only focusing on the people and...
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Fracker Aubrey McClendon Signs Deal in Mexico with Firm Led by Former Mexican...
Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) giant Chesapeake Energy and current CEO of American Energy Partners (AEP), has signed a joint venture with a private equity firm led*...
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Meet the Lobbyists and Big Money Interests Pushing to End the Oil Exports Ban
The ongoing push to lift the ban on exports of U.S.-produced crude oil appears to be coming to a close, with Congress introducing a budget deal with a provision to end the decades-old embargo. Just as...
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"Bait and Switch": Pennsylvania Sues Driller and Pipeline Company Over...
Pennsylvania's beleaguered top prosecutor has filed a civil action against two of the nation's largest oil and gas companies, Chesapeake Energy and pipeline company Williams Partners LP, alleging that...
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Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Bringing Fracking to Argentina
Aubrey McClendon, the embattled former CEO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, has announced his entrance into Argentina to begin hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the country's Vaca Muerta Shale...
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Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank
It was a tumultuous week in the world of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale oil and gas, with a few of the biggest companies in the U.S. announcing temporary shutdowns at their drilling...
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Will LNG Exports Save the Shale Gas Drilling Industry's Profitability? Not So...
Last year, a wave of bankruptcies swept the oil and gas drilling industry as oil prices collapsed, leading to layoffs, lost revenues for communities, and turning former boomtown-era mancamps into ghost...
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Obama Admin Quietly Enables Oil and Gas Drilling on Public Lands and Waters,...
As eyes turned to the most viewed presidential debate in U.S. history, the Obama administration meanwhile quietly auctioned off thousands of acres of land for oil and gas drilling in national forests,...
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The Billionaire Energy Investor Who Vetted Trump's EPA Pick Has Long List of...
Asked for his take on President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), multi-billionaire investor and Trump...
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Trump's Top Regulations Advisor, Billionaire Carl Icahn, Will Profit From...
In a recent “Victory Tour” speech in Des Moines, Iowa, President-elect Donald Trump told the audience that he sought to pick a Cabinet and team of advisors composed of “people that made a fortune”...
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Cool Planet: The Biochar Big Leagues and 'Shoddy Science'
In the world of biochar business, it's been mostly “talk” and little “walk.” Few biochar businesses have scaled up their operations in a serious way, despite big claims — with little scientific proof...
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Congressional Committee Members Pushing LNG Exports Bills Have Deep...
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce held a subcommittee hearing on two bills to expedite permitting for exports of natural gas. Domestic production of this...
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Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
On the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline protesters. One of the Wyoming bill's...
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Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States
During its first year under Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation's expansive federal lands....
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