Tag: oil and gas industry
Is The Big Oil Cartel Losing Its Influence?
A week of the US/Israeli war against Iran continues on unabated, and the Iran military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has infused more turmoil into an already dangerous situation. In a typical day, 20 million barrels of oil passes through the Strait, but nothing seems typical anymore in our … [continued]
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Gulf & Environment Groups Respond To Public Waters Sell-off To Oil Industry
Amid Soaring Energy & Gas Prices, Trump Admin Draws Far Fewer Bids Than Dec. Sale NEW ORLEANS — Gulf and environmental groups responded to the Trump administration’s latest large-scale sell-off of public waters to the oil-and-gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico today. The Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management … [continued]
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Sierra Club Statement on Trump Administration Opening Millions of Acres of Protected Public Lands to Mining
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior announced today it would revoke two public land orders to open more than two million acres of public lands in Alaska to drilling and mining. In an announcement late Friday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order rescinding two land withdrawals north of … [continued]
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Whether The Endangerment Finding Stays Or Goes Will Be Up To The Supreme Court
Repealing the endangerment finding may tick of a lot of boxes for right wing extremists, but the result could be not what they expect.
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Trump’s EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government’s actions to rein in climate change.