Senators Introduce Bill to Reauthorize Pipeline Safety Act
WASHINGTON, DC — Two US senators have introduced what they hope will reauthorize the federal pipeline safety act and strengthen the US Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Administration’s authority to...
View ArticleOil Industry Battles Claims That Leases Are Languishing
Oil industry leaders are fighting back against allegations they are sitting idle on drilling leases covering tens of millions of acres while the cost of crude is climbing. Erik Milito, upstream...
View ArticleAre Natural Gas Emissions a Greater Threat Than Those of Coal?
A study conducted by professors at Cornell University concludes that extracting natural gas from shale formations using hydraulic fracturing generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than burning coal....
View ArticleIndustry Group Criticizes New EPA Ozone Proposal
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed for the first time to control air pollution at oil and gas wells, including those from the process of hydraulic fracturing. Posted...
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Group Appeals Wyoming Oil, Gas Leases The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance filed an appeal before an Interior Department board over planned oil and natural gas leases in potential wilderness areas in...
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API Backs State Leadership in Shale Development
A bill that would keep states in charge of regulating hydraulic fracturing has the support of the industry’s leading trade group, the American Petroleum Institute. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., who...
View ArticleOil Import-Free by 2024? Niobrara and Other Shale Plays Can Make It Happen...
At a meeting of Business Economists this week in Memphis, a spokeswoman of the American Petroleum Institute said the United States and Canada control their own destiny on oil imports because of growing...
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