$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead being funnelled to fossil fuel executives.
Read more...Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...What the Federal Reserve has been up to lately, such as bailing out the shale gas industry.
Read more...Important pipeline legal ruling, plus some context: the Trump administration didn’t pioneer US policy of greenlighting oil pipelines.
Read more...An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
Read more...Collaping oil prices demonstrate the severity of the fall in real economy activity.
Read more...Problems with the oil, gas, and petrchemical industries predate the COVID-19 pandemic – and now will be even more difficult to rseolve.
Read more...Pipeline projects proceed, sometimes on a stealth basis, under cover of the COVID-19 crisis and despite the collapse of world oil prices.
Read more...Why Russia has the upper hand in the oil price war, and what that might mean for US shale players.
Read more...The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?
Read more...Why planting more trees is not a climate change magic bullet.
Read more...Exxon flares more gas than any other company in the Permian Basin, America’s most prolific oil field, emitting massive volumes of greenhouse gases as well as toxic pollution that fouls the air in West Texas.
Read more...So many coronavirus panics that a looming risk is getting little notice: implosion of Italy’s banks, a potential Credit Anstalt event.
Read more...Yesterday’s oil price downdraft, if not meaningfully reversed, will create a world of hurt among US producers, most of all shale gas players.
Read more...Is the seamy side of fracking the only side?
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