Category: US energy policy

Nuclear Power: A Now-Embraceable 3rd Rail of Bipartisan Accord in Energy Debate

Behind long-dredged but deepening trenches, Democrats lobby for renewables—wind, solar, biomass—and Republicans rally for fossil fuels—oil, gas, coal—with both sides claiming their polar policies plot the best ways forward to a national future secured by reliable, affordable domestic energy. Between both lines, but not drawing partisan fire, shimmers nuclear energy, the one power neither party…


Critics: GOP Push to Boost Oil, Gas Exports Won’t Lower Americans’ Energy Bills

Republicans and industry executives say Biden administration policies are preventing the nation’s oil and gas producers from going full throttle and expanding exports, which they say will lower costs for consumers in the United States and make global energy supplies more secure and cleaner. With Republicans regaining House majority after November’s midterm elections, GOP leadership…


House GOP Puts New Methane Tax, ‘Greenhouse Gas’ Fund on Chopping Block

House Republicans want to eliminate a tax on methane emissions and do away with a “greenhouse gas” reduction grant program as part of their “Unleash America’s Energy” campaign to roll back regulatory restraints on domestic production in the United States. A proposed ‘Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act,’ sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), would eliminate…


Biden’s Declared War on Oil and Gas Hits Home Hard in West Texas’ Permian Basin

When President Joe Biden openly advocates for phasing-out oil and gas as primary energy generators in the United States within a decade, what appears as a news scroll blip for most Americans is a clap of thunder across the rolling West Texas sage of the Permian Basin. “The messages, virtue signaling, and rhetoric that have…


Texas Panel Hearing: Biden Lease Policy Puts ‘Oil Patch’ Workers, Communities at Risk

The Biden administration is only putting about 20 percent of eligible federal land up for new oil leases in many areas of the country, Congressional lawmakers have been told during a Feb. 13 “field hearing” in Odessa, Texas. And industry, community, and government leaders say it is “slow-walking” applications through a “broken permitting process” without…