Tag: Oil

Newer, efficient shipping routes have made it easier to produce yet-to-be-tapped oil, gas and mineral deposits. As such, the Arctic has emerged as a geopolitical hotbed. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Obama should open the Arctic to counter Russia on energy

David Hunt · June 16, 2015 9:00 am

Ernest Moniz said he wants to look at making the Strategic Petroleum Reserve more proactive. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Energy secretary suggests changes to emergency oil stash

Zack Colman · June 15, 2015 6:58 pm

Environmental activists hold a sign during ShellNo flotilla demonstrations against Royal Dutch Shell near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig on May 16, 2015 in Seattle, Wash. On Saturday demonstrators began three days of protests both on land and on Puget Sound over the presence of the first of two Royal Dutch Shell oil rigs in the Port of Seattle. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Energy industry: Arctic drilling needs to grow despite fracking boom

John Siciliano · June 14, 2015 9:00 am

Secretary General of OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri of Libya speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Energy and Environment

OPEC’s fool’s errand

Arthur Herman · June 11, 2015 9:00 am

An Iraqi worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jourani)

Energy and Environment

Oil company: Threat of war would drive up coal use

John Siciliano · June 10, 2015 5:26 pm

A House plan to use the nation's emergency oil supply as a piggy bank to fund a new healthcare initiative is alarming the energy industry. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Trading crude for cures

John Siciliano · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to congress, (D-MN), talks during a press conference with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Energy and Environment

Tar sand pipeline deal protests: ‘Get our leaders to #ActOnClimate’ tweets Ellison

Sean Higgins · June 6, 2015 6:15 pm

Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry of Qatar, and President of the OPEC Conference, and OPEC's Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri, from Libya, from left, wait for the start of the meeting in Vienna, Austria.Â (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

OPEC holds line on oil production

Zack Colman · June 5, 2015 3:41 pm

$A truck used to carry sand for fracking is washed in a truck stop on February 4, 2015 in Odessa, Texas. The industry says the EPA's scope of what is considered fracking was too broad. (Getty Images)$ Energy and Environment

The new environmental fight: What is fracking, exactly?

Zack Colman · June 5, 2015 4:01 am

Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation.

Energy and Environment

EPA: Fracking doesn’t systemically pollute water

Zack Colman · June 4, 2015 5:50 pm

In this Nov. 13, 2013, file photo, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., speaks in Washington. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Top House Republican: Oil exports ‘can be a win’

Zack Colman · June 2, 2015 6:03 pm

Renewable energy advocates say U.S. subsidies are fair considering the subsidies the fossil fuel industry has received. (AP)

Energy and Environment

Renewables need change in global policy, says energy diplomat

Zack Colman · June 2, 2015 4:01 am