by Talia Kaplan (FOXBusiness) Mike Sommers, the American Petroleum Institute president and CEO, argued on Wednesday that a long-term energy strategy is needed to reduce prices and stressed that the U.S. has
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by Adam Mahoney (Grist) Once a magnet for urban oil drilling, the city now moves to curb its dependence on fossil fuel production. — On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved
Daily on Energy: Call to End Oil and Gas Exploration Will ‘Come Back to Haunt Us,’ Top Analyst Warns
by by Jeremy Beaman and Josh Siegel (Washington Times) … He (Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit) also claimed IEA’s (International Energy Agency’s) report informed a decision by organizers
by Alexandria Herr (Capital & Main) Even Texas and Wyoming do a better job protecting communities from oil and gas drilling. — As a child, Ashley Hernandez remembers pretending that the oil
by Matthew Choi (Politico’s Morning Energy) … The California oil spill is drawing scrutiny in Washington, with the White House closely monitoring the situation and Democratic lawmakers pushing to curtail
by Ian Palmer (Biofuels Digest) … Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an escape hatch, or an offset, to be used if there are “leftover” GHG emissions. If a country is
by Camila Domonoske (NPR) … European companies – such as French multinational Total and British-based BP – are staking big bets on a pivot from oil to renewable power. Meanwhile,
by Timothy Puko (Wall Street Journal) Defense of ventures has helped Biden’s relationships with some Western lawmakers — Biden administration lawyers are defending oil and mining projects approved under the Trump
by Brad Plumer (New York Times) A landmark report from the International Energy Agency says countries need to move faster and more aggressively to cut planet-warming pollution. — Nations around the
(University of California Davis) Report to State Outlines Policy Pathways to Meet the Zero-Carbon Time Crunch — Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. In order
by Miranda Green (Washington Post) The long shadows cast here in the San Joaquin Valley come from oil derricks, not palm trees. Two hours inland from the Pacific Ocean, the
by Kelsey Tamborrino (Politico’s Morning Energy) It’s climate day at the White House. President Joe Biden will unveil executive orders today designed to make climate change a national security priority
“Los Angeles is a natural focus for treaty organizers because of its unusually high concentration of oil infrastructure in an urban setting: The city is home to more than 800
by Jacques Leslie (Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is poised to endorse a call for a global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. … Signatory governments would agree to
by Florian Elabdi, Rick Noack and Steven Mufson (Washington Post) Denmark on Friday became the first major oil-producing nation to announce an end to state-approved exploration in the North Sea,
by Myles McCormick (Financial Times) Rystad Energy says its estimate of recoverable barrels of crude has dropped by 282bn — An influential research firm has cut its estimate of potential
by Malcolm Harris (Vox Media Intelligencer/New York Magazine) … I asked Fries (Steven Fries, Shell’s chief economist) if Shell is serious about transition, then couldn’t it voluntarily speed it up
by Clayton Coleman and Emma Dietz (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) A recent analysis published in Nature Energy found that continuing current fossil fuel subsidies would make it profitable to extract half of all
(Center for Biological Diversity) Three-quarters of California’s oil is as climate-damaging as Canadian tar sands crude, according to a Center for Biological Diversity report released today at the United Nations climate change conference
by Tim Meko and Laris Karklis (The Washington Post) There are more than 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, and more than 130,000 have been drilled since
by Amanda Cooper (Reuters) The International Energy Agency expects global oil consumption to peak no sooner than 2040, leaving its long-term forecasts for supply and demand unchanged despite the 2015 Paris
by Geoffrey Smith (Fortune) The U.S. can realize President-elect Donald Trump’s dream of independence from foreign oil “foes” and “cartels”–but he likely won’t live to see it unless he embraces
by Rebecca Penty (Bloomberg) Rate of 21% in 2015 compares to average of 59% previously; Bankruptcies so far this year are double last year’s total — U.S. oil bankruptcies haven’t been
(WNAX) A new study from the National Academy of Sciences says the expansion of corn and soybean acres to supply feed stock for biofuels is hampering habitat for bees. Renewable Fuels
by Doug Stranglin (USA Today) One of the largest earthquakes in Oklahoma rattled the Midwest on Saturday all the way from Nebraska to North Texas. — Oklahoma regulators on Saturday
by Nick Cunningham (OilPrice.com) … one reason that U.S. shale production won’t necessarily spring into action in short order is because the people and equipment that were sidelined over the past
by Nika Knight (CommonDreams.org) ‘This spill shows why there is a new and vibrant movement in the Gulf of Mexico for no new drilling’ — Royal Dutch Shell’s offshore drilling
by Katie Valentine (Think Progress) … Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), along with Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, is introducing a bill Wednesday that would bar new leases on coal,
by By Leonard Brecken (OilPrice.com) … Earlier in the year I documented half a dozen media reports which turned out to be 100 percent false. Now I expose another half dozen in
by Jeff Donn (Associated Press/Los Angeles Daily News) Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of
by Deborah Gordon, Adam Brandt, Joule Bergerson, Jonathan Koomey (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Oil is changing. Conventional oil resources are dwindling as tight oil, oil sands, heavy oils, and others
by Michael T. Klare (Huffington Post) … U.S. oil consumption is on an upward trajectory, climbing by 400,000 barrels per day in 2013 alone — and, if current trends persist, it should rise again both
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) The House and Energy Commerce Committee has released its third white paper on the Renewable Fuel Standard, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Environmental Impacts.” Executive Vice President of the