Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Price Tag to Convert L.A., Long Beach Ports to Zero-Emissions is $14 Billion

From the L.A. Times The nation’s largest port complex will seek to slash air pollution and health risks to Southern Californians by replacing diesel trucks and cargo equipment with zero-emissions technology over the next two decades, according to a plan released Wednesday. The Long Beach and Los Angeles ports’ Clean Air Action Plan aims to further reduce health-damaging and planet-warming

Colorado Activist Study Disregards Economic Benefits of Oil, Gas Development

From the Grand Junction Sentinel An activist group’s study finding a net negative economic impact to Delta County from a proposed drilling project is rife with errors of omission when it comes to the public revenues oil and gas development generates, according to an industry organization’s critique. David Ludlam, executive director of the West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association,

Does the Oil Industry Prefer Rail over Pipelines?

Rail equates to flexibility in a perpetually volatile market From Forbes/Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago After three years of planning, nearly $4 billion in capital investment and a year of legal disputes and protests, the Dakota Access Pipeline began transporting crude oil from the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota to the Gulf Coast last month. The