DeSmog

Facebook-f X-twitter
Subscribe
Donate
Donate

DeSmog

Donate
Search
Search
More

Energy

us/Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
By Justin Mikulka
on
There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
us/Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
By Sharon Kelly
on
Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to double the amount of oil that flows through the state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
us/The Oil War in the Permian May Not Have Any Winners
By Justin Mikulka
on
At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil a...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
By Dana Drugmand
on
Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst of ...
us/Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help
By Nick Cunningham
on
The $2 trillion stimulus bill that the U.S. Congress rushed to pass in order to respond to millions of job losses provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity for corporate lobbying. The oil and gas...
us/Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Members Silent After Group Opposed Using Wartime Law to Produce Medical Supplies
By Guest
on
By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
us/Oil Refineries Face Shutdowns as Demand Collapses
By Nick Cunningham
on
A growing number of refineries around the world are either curtailing operations or shutting down entirely as the oil market collapses.  Oil prices have fallen precipitously to their lowest level...
us/Will Pandemic Relief Become a Petroleum Industry Slush Fund?
By Guest
on
By Amy Westervelt, with additional reporting from Emily Gertz, Drilled News. Originally published on Drilled News. Recently, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin both made clear th...
us/$3 Billion 'Bailout' for Oil Producers Dropped From Economic Stimulus Package
By Dana Drugmand
on
Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from t...
us/Exxon May Crush Bailout Hopes for Suffering Fracking Companies
By Justin Mikulka
on
The Washington Post reported March 10 that the Trump administration was considering some type of financial help for the failing U.S. shale oil and gas industry, “as industry officials close to the ...

All Articles

us/Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
ByJustin Mikulka
on

There are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices. While activis...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
BySharon Kelly
on

Last Friday, the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order that would allow the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to double the amount of oil that flows through the state from 550,000 barrels a day to 1.1 m...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
Analysis
us/The Oil War in the Permian May Not Have Any Winners
ByJustin Mikulka
on

At the same time a price war is raging in the global oil markets, a regional price war is playing out in the shale fields of Texas. The Texas oil war is between the major oil companies ExxonMobil a...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
ByDana Drugmand
on

Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst of ...
us/Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help
ByNick Cunningham
on

The $2 trillion stimulus bill that the U.S. Congress rushed to pass in order to respond to millions of job losses provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity for corporate lobbying. The oil and gas...
us/Chamber of Commerce’s Energy Members Silent After Group Opposed Using Wartime Law to Produce Medical Supplies
ByGuest
on

By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Major electric utilities and fossil fuel producers that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
us/Oil Refineries Face Shutdowns as Demand Collapses
ByNick Cunningham
on

A growing number of refineries around the world are either curtailing operations or shutting down entirely as the oil market collapses.  Oil prices have fallen precipitously to their lowest level...
us/Will Pandemic Relief Become a Petroleum Industry Slush Fund?
ByGuest
on

By Amy Westervelt, with additional reporting from Emily Gertz, Drilled News. Originally published on Drilled News. Recently, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin both made clear th...
us/$3 Billion 'Bailout' for Oil Producers Dropped From Economic Stimulus Package
ByDana Drugmand
on

Bucking President Trump’s directive for buying oil to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Senate Democrats last week nixed what they say was a $3 billion bailout for oil producers from t...
us/Exxon May Crush Bailout Hopes for Suffering Fracking Companies
ByJustin Mikulka
on

The Washington Post reported March 10 that the Trump administration was considering some type of financial help for the failing U.S. shale oil and gas industry, “as industry officials close to the ...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances