Colorado high court rules local bans on fracking are illegal
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that municipalities can’t bar hydraulic fracturing, a long awaited decision in a legal battle that has rippled across this energy rich state.
Archive for year: 2016
Why electric car owners are switching back to SUVs
Edmunds found a mere 27.5 percent of all hybrid and electric vehicle trade-ins in the first quarter of 2016 were applied to the purchase of a new hybrid or electric car. Instead, the rest of customers were found to be switching back to gas vehicles, especially SUVs.
Chevron increases planned job cuts to 8,000
Chevron Corp. plans to shed 8,000 jobs, or 12 percent of its workforce, by the end of the year as anemic oil prices make it too expensive to keep many drilling rigs in the field, executives said Friday.
There will be pandemonium: The end of the old oil order has already begun
It is hard to overstate the significance of the Doha debacle. At the very least, it will perpetuate the low oil prices that have plagued the industry for the past two years.
A cellulosic ethanol milestone
Have we finally reached the long-promised realization of commercial cellulosic ethanol?
‘Keystone-ization’ is the fossil fuel industry’s new nightmare
“Another Pipeline Rejected” is now the go-to headline for updates on new fossil fuel infrastructure in the United States. Does the growing file of scrapped pipeline plans forecast the “Keystone-ization” of our energy future? Yes.
American cars on track to double fuel efficiency
A growing number of vehicles are meeting or surpassing federal fuel economy standards, though improvements to cars outpace those to trucks, according to a new analysis by the Consumer Federation of America.
CNN viewers see far more fossil fuel advertising than climate reporting
CNN aired almost five times as much oil industry advertising as climate change-related coverage in the one-week periods following the announcements that 2015 was the hottest year on record and February 2016 was the most abnormally hot month on record.
Oil jumps 2 percent despite glut, hits 2016 peak
Oil markets jumped 2 percent on Thursday, hitting 2016 highs for a third straight day as a weaker dollar had investors shrugging off record high U.S. crude inventories and relentless pumping by major producers.
Ethanol groups criticize U.S. climate plan for excluding biofuels
Leading up to the Paris Agreement, countries submitted individual plans, known as Intended National Determined Contributions, which outline how they plan to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. While 37 countries have included biofuels in their INDCs, the U.S. has not.
