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The safe, responsible, tightly-regulated development of the Marcellus Shale’s abundant, clean-burning natural gas resources has “helped bring in jobs and boost demand for office space in [Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania’s second-biggest city.” That’s according to a Bloomberg News... Read More

The Obama administration is facing fresh political criticism from the right and the left over its offshore drilling policies. Seven GOP governors from coastal states, in a new letter to President Obama, say the federal 2012-2017 oil-and-gas leasing plan is far too modest, and... Read More

The so-called advanced biofuels industry is applying new pressure to convince lawmakers that their products will be collateral damage if Congress scuttles the national ethanol mandate. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has been warning its political allies on Capitol... Read More

A wholesale removal of oil-and-gas drilling bans that cover many public lands and waters would raise only limited federal revenues over the next decade, according to a new Congressional Budget Office study that could provide political ammunition to drilling foes. The nonpartisan... Read More

High-level White House officials were more aware of the federal program that gave failed solar panel maker Solyndra its $535 million loan than previously noted, The Washington Post reports. Colorado is experiencing a natural-gas “revolution,” pitting natural gas and coal firms... Read More

In the fight to win important swing states in the Midwest and West, both President Obama and Mitt Romney’s campaigns have resorted to stretching facts and figures in the polarized debate over the wind energy production tax credit (PTC), a prominent fact-checking blog found.... Read More

President Obama is directly attacking rival Mitt Romney over the GOP White House hopeful’s view that tax credits for wind energy projects should be allowed to expire at year’s end. Obama’s comments, to be delivered later Thursday in Colorado, are the strongest sign yet that his... Read More