As part of its climate strategy, Los Angeles agrees to curb, and eventually end, its fossil fuel production. California is seen as a leader in renewables. However, it continues to have a high oil and gas output, supplying energy to the rest of the country. Finally, California, LA in...
The Biden Administration is hot on the heels of U.S. oil and gas producers by ramping up new regulations for methane emissions associated with drilling. Biden chose the 27th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, known on the street as COP27, to unveil his new regulatory framework, funding priorities,...
The United States and the United Kingdom hold a special relationship when it comes to politics and security. They have worked together in several areas of foreign affairs in previous decades and supported one another in times of political and economic turmoil. Now, the leaders of the two countries...
The U.S. has long relied on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its oil and gas, which it produces under the OPEC intergovernmental organization of 13 oil-exporting nations. However, it appears that the connection between the two states will go deeper than just fossil fuels as the two powers...
There’s a lot of talk about tackling climate change these days. If you listen to the media, you’d think that the solution is to electrify everything, but that’s meaningless if you do not have access to a clean, efficient, sustainable, low-cost way of generating electricity. However, not everywhere has...
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), recently signed into law by President Biden, is a wide-reaching piece of legislation that includes the largest climate investment ever made by Congress. With $369 billion allocated for cutting emissions, developing clean energy technology, and advancing environmental initiatives, the IRA is projected to reduce...
In late August, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced an agreement on a massive bill titled the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — a slimmed-down version of the Build Back Better (BBB) bill Democrats had been negotiating since President Biden took office. The primary focus of the tax incentives in the...
This week, in a huge turn of events, the United Kingdom said it would be lifting its ban on fracking for shale gas to improve its energy security by increasing production, as Europe faces a major energy crisis. But, for many, this move is a giant step backward in...
Despite Biden’s highly-touted trip to Saudi Arabia just last month, leaders of the oil-rich nation are already proposing cuts in production to stabilize global supply and demand. Biden made the trip to secure a boost in production and the Whitehouse made a show of highlighting what they deemed as...
In recent years, the global push to make energy operations cleaner was accelerated during the pandemic when the international community saw the possibilities of a world curbing its oil and gas consumption. In response, energy firms have been quick to invest in, and promote, their ESG initiatives to show...