Oklahoma becomes the first state to enact an anti-trespass law aimed at pipeline protests. Will this spark a national trend targeting protest and dissent?
Read more...Sunny predictions for oil prices in 2017 are looking a tad premature.
Read more...States such as Oklahoma and North Dakota lead the way in repressing protest over pipeline and fracking activities.
Read more...Both consumer and commercial bankruptcies spiked in March– and the oil bust’s not to blame.
Read more...How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
Read more...California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.
Read more...Although additional regulatory approvals, lawsuits, and protests loom, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline now looks likely to proceed.
Read more...The oil price slump has put pressure on the budgets of the U.S. oil and coal states.
Read more...The OPEC deal last year was weak and is vulnerable to US shale players increasing production.
Read more...A string of oil deals between Russian oil companies and Arab petrostates have shifted the center of political gravity in the Middle East and North Africa towards Moscow
Read more...Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...High gasoline and crude inventories do not bode well for oil prices this year.
Read more...Oil may be a big reason behind the Trump Administration’s aggressive stance towards China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Read more...Texas is about to sacrifice one of its few sources of fresh water, as well as the wildlife in the area, to the oil industry.
Read more...How the US and Nigeria wound up with increasingly similar systems, such as centralized, presidential-focused politics.
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