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April 23, 2012 In the News, Newsroom From Pa. and Across the Country, Newspaper Editorials Tout American Natural Gas Job-Creating Marcellus Shale Continues to Fuel Economic Growth, Strengthen U.S. Competitiveness Canonsburg, PA – Expanding America’s manufacturing base, creating... Read More

Elizabeth Warren won the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters Monday in her bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.). The news, while not a surprise, officially aligns the environmental movement’s two biggest political campaign operations with Warren’s... Read More

Vice President Biden delivered a speech on the Obama administration’s efforts to preserve the Florida Everglades while Mitt Romney campaigned with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). “The truth of the matter is people around the country, people know the Everglades,”... Read More

Two Republican senators are bashing the Energy Department for using taxpayer funds to support production of a luxury electric car that costs six figures. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Thune (R-S.D.) are the latest GOP lawmakers to raise questions about federal support... Read More

State of Play: The House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin considering two energy bills Tuesday aimed at expanding domestic oil-and-gas leasing and ensuring that federal environmental regulations don’t raise prices at the pump. The bills are part of a broader GOP campaign... Read More

A BP executive, writing on the Gulf oil spill two years later in the Alabama Press-Register, said: “Many of the dire predictions for the Gulf, made in the days and weeks after the accident, have not turned out to be true.” Climate change could affect corn prices, The New York... Read More

The week of April 23 will bring the next phase of House Republicans’ push to speed oil-and-gas drilling, high-level White House attention to Everglades restoration, and perhaps the next chapter in the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline. This week House and Senate leaders may... Read More

Mitt Romney on Monday accused President Obama of imposing an “onslaught” of regulations and restrictions on domestic energy production. “Holding off on drilling in the Gulf, holding off on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, holding off on drilling in Alaska, trying to... Read More