In October, the Trump Administration announced it would instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to adjust regulations to allow the year-round sale of E15, a cleaner-burning, higher-octane gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol. Read more →
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The Trump administration’s new standards, cleverly referred to as SAFE standards, claims to reduce traffic fatalities by as much as 1,000 deaths a year, according to the language of the proposal. The justification for that argument is incredibly shaky however.
The proposed change in standards, rolled out in August, would cost Americans nearly 17,000 days of work a year because of increased illnesses, the analysis by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says.
Much of the debate surrounding the recent proposal to lower fuel economy standards focuses on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. Read more →
The head of the California’s clean air agency doesn’t expect a protracted court fight from President Donald Trump’s proposed challenge to the state’s legal authority to regulate tailpipe emissions.
Besides the criminal trial that wrapped up on Friday, the state responded with increased regulation and opposition to new drilling.
There is one issue that unites America like no other: the pursuit of genuine energy independence. Our national security demands it. Our national economy demands it.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as the market prepared for potential supply disruptions due to a hurricane forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, but gains were capped by a report that Cushing, Oklahoma, stockpiles rose last week.
How far and how long gasoline prices will fall, of course, depend on crude prices, which have rallied this week as supplies appear to tighten.
