A new national survey out today by the Pew Research Center shows 48 percent of Americans favor the increased use of fracking, while 38 percent are opposed. Unsurprisingly, differences of opinion fall along partisan, gender, and regional lines. Women are divided on the issue, with 41 percent favoring fracking and 42 percent opposed. Men support [...]
Esquire’s Politics Blog is focusing on energy this week, taking a close look at the environmental consequences of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. The first article in the series centers on Nebraska Congressman Lee Terry, who concedes processing the pipeline’s crude oil would lead to massive carbon emissions, but supports the project anyway. He knows [...]
Sometimes you just can’t win. Yesterday, Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Casey crossed party lines to try and authorize the Keystone XL pipeline, which President Barack Obama rejected earlier this year. As the LA Times reports, Thursday’s vote to attach the Canada-to-Gulf Coast pipeline project to a must-pass transportation bill failed 56-42, with 11 Democrats joining [...]
Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senator, Pat Toomey, said he was “disappointed” by President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. That’s despite the relatively low expectations Toomey said he carried into the speech. Toomey spoke to reporters during a Tuesday night conference call. What about Obama’s call for expanded natural gas drilling? Toomey said he was [...]
Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey isn’t happy about President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone X.L. Pipeline’s application. Here’s the statement Toomey’s office just sent out: “President Obama has been trying to campaign against a do-nothing Congress, but he is the one who is impeding job creation and economic growth in this country,” Sen. Toomey [...]
President Barack Obama is rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline – but not completely. The Democrat is pinning the decision on Congress’ demand for a final administration answer on the controversial project within a two-month window. He says the company building the pipeline, TransCanada, is free to reapply once a new route through Nebraska is finalized. [...]
A Texas-based company plans on building a 1,230-mile pipeline to transport ethane from the Marcellus Shale to the Gulf Coast, according to the West Virginia State Journal: Enterprise Products Partners L.P. of Houston announced this week that it has received sufficient transportation commitments to support development of its 1,230-mile Appalachia-to-Texas pipeline to deliver ethane to [...]
Trying to bone up on federal energy regulation? AOL Energy’s “Politics Year In Review” article is a good place to start. The post reviews this year’s major Washington, DC energy stories, including the Solyndra bankruptcy and Keystone XL Pipeline debate. Energy politics have been more partisan than ever this year. Republicans have been consistently supporting [...]
Greenwire has a good look at the critical role the Obama Administration will play in breaking the Delaware River Basin Commission’s deadlock over whether or not to proceed with new hydraulic fracturing regulations. As the article points out, fracking along the Delaware and the controversial Keystone XL pipeline put the White House in the same [...]
It’s been a good week for environmental advocates. A day after the Delaware River Basin Commission postponed a vote on new hydraulic fracturing regulations, Nebraska lawmakers approved a bill rerouting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline away from environmentally sensitive portions of the state. The Keystone pipeline and fracking in the Delaware River Basin have been [...]
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