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Plans for Alaskan oil drilling ignore climate change realities, say experts within the interior department

Apr 25, 2019

Disagreement over the effects of climate change have led to criticism from within the US Interior department over the Trump administration’s plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), ...

Judge rules drilling projects must consider emissions, in blow to Trump’s energy policy

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Mar 21, 2019

Environment, Policy, Science

A federal judge has issued a ruling against new drilling projects on public land, saying they had failed to account for greenhouse emissions, in the first major rebuke of the Trump administration’s push to incr...

Trump administration issued 1,700 exemptions to offshore drilling rules

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Feb 25, 2019

Environment, Policy, Science

Trump’s Interior Department has issued a large number of exemptions to an Obama-era offshore drilling rule put in place after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Critics say the readily available waivers...

US expected to become net energy exporter by 2020

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Jan 27, 2019

Environment, Science

New projections from the Energy Information Administration show that the US is on course to become a net exporter of energy for the first time in almost 70 years, according to CNBC. The nation is expected to...

Investors offer lukewarm response to Trump’s Gulf oil lease sale

West Side Story

Mar 29, 2018

Business, Environment, Science

A record sized US government sale of oil development leases in the Gulf of Mexico has elicited a lukewarm response from investors. So far, companies have bid on just 1 percent of the largest oil lease sale in A...

Opec agrees to limit production after two-year slump in global oil prices

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Sep 29, 2016

Policy, Science, World

On Wednesday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to limit oil production as part of an effort to boost prices following a two year slump. The deal will cut production by about 700,000 ...

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