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Fracking: not just natural gas, but oil
Last night I debated an oil shale proponent on CBNC on Texas’ Eagle Ford shale development, which, in its infancy, has already become a major new potential source of domestic oil production. But, as...
View ArticleEPA Releases Hydraulic Fracturing Case Study Locations
Due to the growing awareness and warranted concern over the controversial and under regulated natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the House Appropriations...
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The Need for Federal Hydrofracking Legislation
With myriad exemptions in place for the natural gas industry in federal environmental legislation, most of the regulation is left to the states. This has led to a hodgepodge of regulation that leaves...
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68 Groups Urge Obama to Halt Fracking
Today, 68 leaders of public health, environmental, academic, faith-based, and other organizations, urged President Obama to do everything in his power to halt the largely unregulated expansion of...
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Frack, Baby, Frack?
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama embraced the development of unconventional natural gas. In step with the theme of the address, the president highlighted both...
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Stop the Frack Attack
Natural gas companies are contributing more money than ever to lobby politicians to support fracking. The current governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, has received almost $1 million from the natural...
View ArticleReporters Forget Lobbyist Connection
This week National Journal reports that former Senators Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. and Trent Lott, R-Miss “are working together on a blueprint for energy legislation” through their role as co-chairs of the...
View ArticleNatural Gas Pricing Dynamics Are Driving the Market
This is a repost of my blog at National Journal. As I wrote in the Expert Blog at the beginning of this year, the primary attraction of natural gas today is its price advantage over competing fuels....
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Watch my TV Interview on LNG Exports
I recently appeared on CNBC to discuss problems associated with exporting natural gas. Despite the numerous problems domestic fracking poses to the environment, the process remains lightly regulated....
View ArticleNIMBYism Is Democracy
The following is a repost of my National Journal Energy Experts blog Electricity policy faces enormous challenges—three different federal agencies (EPA, DOE, FERC) and 10 Congressional committees...
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