Tag: gas

"Oil and gas has already devastated our state's air quality, water quality and flow, and public health. It's clear the Trump administration will stop at nothing to sacrifice public interest for private profits."

And even with the Trump administration rolling back a number of environmental regulations like the rules for methane flaring and venting, the oil and gas industry is looking for still more deregulation from the federal government.

"What happened here should serve as an example for the whole nation to unite behind the fight that the president is carrying out against this ill."

"This really is not as much about the monetary amount as it is about awareness and influencing future behavior."

Cuadrilla Resources was forced by law to pause operations at its site in Lancashire, England when a tremor with a magnitude of 0.8 took place in the area Friday morning.

Climate implications make a petrochemical build-out risky, not only from an environmental perspective, but also from a fiscal perspective.

“This project sets us down a dangerous path of destroying the Arctic. An oil spill in the Arctic would be impossible to clean up and the region is already stressed by climate change.”

The fracking boom in Texas and New Mexico and subsequent export boom is a shining example – illuminated by the flares of fracked gas – of exactly what not to be doing.

The backdrop to Lane Genatowski’s nomination is an overall uncertainty over the future of the very agency he’s supposed to lead.

And construction appears to be speeding up, with over 40 percent of those projects permitted between 2016 and mid-2018.