Tag: Oil

Snyder wants review of radioactive waste standards

Snyder wants review of radioactive waste standards

John Flesher · August 25, 2014 9:35 pm

Mexican oil firm Pemex is poised to enter joint ventures with U.S.-based companies. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

Energy and Environment

Reforms could boost Mexican oil production 75 percent, says Energy Department’s statistics arm

Zack Colman · August 25, 2014 4:26 pm

A Delta Air Lines jet flies past the company's billboard at Citi Field in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Delta’s good fight on Export-Import Bank marred by support for crony capitalism

Timothy P. Carney · August 24, 2014 4:52 am

The Environmental Protection Agency sent the Office of Management and Budget a long-awaited proposal for review that would set the federal target for blending biofuels into gasoline. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Lobbying fight kicks off as ethanol rules sent to the White House

Zack Colman · August 22, 2014 6:08 pm

Larose oilfield manufacturer to add 150 jobs

Larose oilfield manufacturer to add 150 jobs

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 12:31 pm

In this Aug. 14, 2014 photo, the contaminated Sonora river makes its way near the town of Ures, in the northern state of Sonora, Mexico. Eighty-eight schools in Sonora state did not open Monday along with the rest of the country because of the danger of water contaminated by the spill of 10 million gallons (40,000 cubic meters) of acids from a copper mine into this and another river in the region. (AP Photo/El Imparcial, Julian Ortega)

Mexican mining firm complains about probe of spill

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 12:50 am

Mexican President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto predicted big production gains in the oil and gas sector beginning in 2018. PeÃ±a Nieto also stated that state-owned oil company Pemex "will be more competitive and will have the autonomy needed to operate as a modern company, as well as the opportunity to forge alliances and reduce operating costs." (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Mexican president predicts oil and gas gains from energy reform

Zack Colman · August 21, 2014 1:03 pm

Cleanup is underway near the Beckjord Power Plant, in New Richmond, Ohio, after an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Ohio River, closing about a 15-mile section of the waterway southeast of Cincinnati, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Amanda Rossmann)

Feds say oil spill sheen dissipating in Ohio River

Lisa Cornwell · August 20, 2014 9:18 pm

Oil train in deadly crash passed through major U.S. cities

Energy and Environment

Oil train in deadly crash passed through major U.S. cities

Zack Colman · August 19, 2014 9:39 pm

$Which uses more water, growing vegetables or hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas? (AP Photo)$ Beltway Confidential

Does it take more water to frack an oil well or keep a golf course green?

Mark Tapscott · August 19, 2014 12:18 pm

Communities fight back over transportation of fossil fuels

Energy and Environment

Communities fight back over transportation of fossil fuels

Zack Colman · August 19, 2014 9:00 am

Neil Young, left, and Willie Nelson perform during the 25th anniversary Farm Aid concert Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Energy and Environment

Musicians team up to kill Keystone XL

Zack Colman · August 18, 2014 8:53 pm