USGS: Wolfcamp shale holds 20 billion undiscovered barrels of oil
Drillers have wrung oil out of West Texas for a century, but there’s still plenty left in untapped shale rocks.
Archive for year: 2016
U.S. officials say world climate-change efforts to continue despite Trump’s views
Senior U.S. officials at a major climate change conference Monday, echoed by President Barack Obama, contended the world will seek to keep cutting carbon emissions, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to turn back the U.S.’s own efforts.
One small step for Chrysler, one giant leap for minivan-kind
While I’ve driven many electric cars, getting behind the wheel of the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid was the first time I experienced electric drive in a minivan.
What Trump’s pro-drilling stance means for oil, gas industry
The election of Donald Trump as president raises the hopes of oil and natural gas producers, thanks to his full-throated support for the removal of regulations that many say hamper the industry.
Texas leads U.S. oil production to 43-year high
According to a report released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S crude oil production in 2015 reached its highest level since 1972.
What it would really mean if Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement
It does indeed appear that the consequences for international diplomacy, and for the planet, would be considerable.
Trump has a chance to pull U.S. out of climate accord
“If a country wants to just walk away from its obligations,there’s little recourse for the rest of the world other than diplomatic pressure, I think.”
Trump win raises questions about U.S. pledge in climate deal
The election of a U.S. president who has called global warming a “hoax” alarmed environmentalists and climate scientists and raised questions Wednesday about whether America, once again, would pull out of an international climate deal.
Taking aim at the clean-energy holy grail: Turning water into fuel
It’s not exactly alchemy, but something magical is taking place inside an 8-foot-tall steel box at a Bucks County industrial park: The humming SimpleFuel machine is converting water into clean hydrogen motor fuel.
After years of delay, climate talks face a new problem: speed
Efforts to build a new global deal to tackle climate change were for many years criticised for moving at a glacial pace. But this week climate negotiators meeting in Morocco find themselves facing an entirely new problem: a deal that, astonishingly, has come into effect more than three years ahead of schedule.
