Source: Houston Chronicle The CEO of Chevron touted the company’s Texas growth – from the Permian Basin to Houston refining and chemicals – and urged the energy sector to take the lead on emissions reductions to help combat climate change. Speaking at the Greater Houston Partnership’s annual “State of Energy” luncheon, Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth praised the Houston area as
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 ExxonMobil partners with Mosaic Materials in order to pursue carbon capture technology ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM), an international oil and gas supermajor, has partnered with Mosaic Materials, a chemicals and engineering company, in order to explore and advance technology that can be used to remove carbon dioxide from emissions sources. The
From AP News From a helicopter, Greenland’s brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn’t fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide. One scientist called it the “end of the planet.” When U.S.
From Bloomberg Businessweek By Mathew Carr The top 10 energy companies are planning investments approaching $1 trillion by 2030, in everything from finding and tapping new fields to equipment ranging from drones to drilling rigs. If the oil and gas business rolls along as it has for the past century, those projects will likely pay off in fat profits for
From S&P Global/Platts Industry maintains role in ‘logical’ transition to lower carbon system Washington — As debate over responses to climate change gains a higher profile in Washington, the major trade group representing interstate natural gas pipelines said it is making education of new congressional lawmakers a top priority this year. House Dems turn attention to climate change Democrats taking power
From The Hill The Senate confirmed President Trump’s pick for a key energy agency Thursday over Democrats’ objections that he is too biased for the job. The 50 to 49 vote along party lines means Bernard McNamee, a Republican and former high-ranking political official at the Energy Department under Trump, can take his spot in the five-person Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Northern California U.S. District Judge William Alsup has dismissed the climate change lawsuits filed against BP (NYSE: BP), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), and Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland. The lawsuits were filed last September against the five big oil companies alleging that the carbon emissions from their fossil
“…defendants continue to engage in massive fossil fuel production. They also continue to promote fossil fuels, and have developed multi-decade future business plans based upon increased fossil fuel usage even as global warming has progressed into a severe danger zone…” – San Francisco City Attorney It was kind of a ‘say what?’ moment that emerged from the San Francisco Bay area
Three Chief Executives Tackle Climate Change Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Barack Obama, and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto joined forces in Ottawa this week expressly to demonstrate how North America has the “moral imperative to show strong leadership building on the Paris Agreement and promoting its early entry into force.” This meeting was to showcase their resolve to
From the Observer/Op-Ed by Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change There has been a slew of misinformation shared by Progress Conservative Party in recent days about the future of natural gas in Ontario as the province takes the next step in our fight against climate change. It’s time to set the record straight. To be very clear,
Thanks largely to the move by power generators from coal to gas, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions sink to 12% below 2005’s levels: EIA The natural gas industry along with its electric power generation customers have scored a big win for climate change – in the category of carbon emissions reduction. Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions have fallen to a level 12% below 2005’s levels, the EIA
Canada shocks COP21 silly Canada surprised attendees and negotiators at the climate talks in Paris on Sunday by calling for a more ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gases than the UN’s own 2-degree target, the National Observer reported. “Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna told a stunned crowd that she wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming
