Tax reform groups call for open bidding in infrastructure projects
Leaders from more than a dozen advocacy groups have signed a letter urging legislators to support “open competition” in infrastructure projects. Read More »
Leaders from more than a dozen advocacy groups have signed a letter urging legislators to support “open competition” in infrastructure projects. Read More »
The Trump Administration may be bad for the policy agenda of environmental activism groups but good for those groups' fundraising, as some of them have signaled their intention to ramp up protests to a number of the administration's energy policy proposals. Read More »
According to the International Energy Association (IEA), the increase in natural gas supplies brought about by the growth in fracking has contributed to "global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions" remaining flat for a third straight year in 2016, "even as the global economy grew." Read More »
The term “energy infrastructure” has found its way into the headlines recently, spurred in part by President Donald Trump’s executive orders to advance the long-delayed Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil and gas pipelines. Read More »
Three organizations funded, in part, by hedge-fund billionaires are opposing Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's nomination to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read More »
President Donald Trump's executive order this week to advance the construction of the long-delayed Keystone XL Pipeline is drawing praise as a much-needed boost to America's energy infrastructure. Read More »
Meetings arranged by the Department of Justice have “unquestionably failed” to diffuse tensions in North Dakota, according to the sheriff of a county where protests against the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline are concentrated. Read More »
As the debate over new energy-infrastructure projects garners headlines across the country, attention has turned to the safety record of oil and natural gas pipelines. Read More »
Fracking is "a winning lottery ticket" for the U.S., something opponents of the practice do not understand, according to a veterans’ organization that advocates for energy independence to strengthen national security. Read More »
The benefits brought to America by the oil and gas energy renaissance are miraculous, a former Marine Corps sergeant major and volunteer chairman of New Hampshire’s Vets4Energy chapter said. Read More »
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette spoke favorably about the petroleum industry and stressed the need to keep energy production local when he addressed the Michigan Oil and Gas Association at its annual meeting on Sept. 15. Read More »
A new study out of Clemson University shows that regions in which the hydraulic fracturing (or, "fracking") boom has taken place are less likely to have seen mortgage defaults. Read More »
U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) recently said Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi, has been awarded a $1.49 million federal grant for construction of a multi-purpose safe room. Read More »
Nineteen Virginian chambers of commerce have joined forces to urge the state’s U.S. senators to support the construction of a natural gas pipeline through the state. Read More »
A major university study on the impact of hydraulic fracturing indicates that this method of extracting natural gas is safe, a veterans group that advocates for energy independence said. Read More »
Former US Coast Guard officer Nicholas Porta sees many similarities between his old job helping defend the nation, and his new profession in the oil and gas industry, one he describes as a great fit for veterans. Read More »
U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) announced that Grand Junction Airport will receive a $3.3 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant. Holyoke, Sterling and Wray Municipal airports will also receive funding for a variety of infrastructure improvement projects. Read More »
Mississippi airports will receive $20.3 million in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) announced last week. The Airport Improvement Program grants are intended for airport infrastructure improvements. Read More »
The U.S. Senate approved a comprehensive energy infrastructure bill this week on a bipartisan vote of 84-3. Read More »
Because the process of hydraulic fracturing is said to create more energy and less pollution in the U.S., the federal government should not want to ban it, retired U.S. Army Capt. James McCormick, program director of Vets4Energy, said. Read More »