Tag: Oil

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, with Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, hold a news conference about Alaska's energy future, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Keystone XL set for Thursday Senate vote

Zack Colman · January 29, 2015 12:19 am

U.S. Energy Information Administration projections show the average American family will save $750 this year at the pump. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

GDP getting ‘significant’ help from low oil prices, feds say

Zack Colman · January 28, 2015 5:19 pm

President Obama has an oil and climate change conundrum. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy boom muddles Obama’s climate agenda

Zack Colman · January 28, 2015 10:00 am

Combined with his tax plan, Sen. Ted Cruz's budget would still increase the deficit by about $250 billion over 10 years. But that's peanuts compared to the $10 trillion increase proposed by Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Sen. Ted Cruz pulls back on oil exports

Zack Colman · January 27, 2015 11:02 pm

Senators are hoping to vote on legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline this week after Democrats blocked a procedural move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

McConnell wants Keystone XL vote this week

Zack Colman · January 27, 2015 8:04 pm

Obama to allow drilling in the Atlantic

Energy and Environment

Obama to allow drilling in the Atlantic

Zack Colman · January 27, 2015 5:00 pm

"What it says is their sole priority when it comes to the Arctic is climate ... I think that what we're seeing coming out now is they're saying that this is all that matters when it comes to the Arctic," Murkowski said. (AP File Photo)

Energy and Environment

Alaska delegation declares war on Obama over ANWR

Zack Colman · January 26, 2015 9:14 pm

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Energy and Environment

Obama boasts of cheap gas but he didn’t build that boom

Zack Colman · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

Obama closes off much of Alaska refuge to drilling

Energy and Environment

Obama closes off much of Alaska refuge to drilling

Sarah Bedford · January 25, 2015 6:34 pm

The Development Driller III, which is drilling the relief well, is seen at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill May 11, 2010 off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by Gerald Herbert-pool/Getty images)

Energy and Environment

Obama expected to allow drilling in Atlantic

Zack Colman · January 23, 2015 10:00 am

Abdullah was considered a relative moderate in an absolute monarchy that ruled according to the strict dictates of Islam's Wahhabi sect. (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. ally Saudi King Abdullah dies

Charles Hoskinson · January 23, 2015 3:01 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands as they meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Strategist Putin strikes an ominous deal with Iran

Austin Bay · January 21, 2015 5:13 pm