The Texas Gulf Coast oil terminals sent abroad more crude than they received in April, the Energy Information Administration said this week. During that month, crude oil exports from the Houston-Galveston port district exceeded imports by 15,000 bpd. Over the next month, the advantage of exports over imports welled further, to an impressive 470,000 bpd. […]
EPA Forced to Ban Pesticides Based on ‘Secret Science’ It Wants to End…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fewer than 60 days to ban a commonly-used pesticide after a federal court ruled in favor of environmental activists in early August. The Natural Resources Defense council (NRDC) celebrated the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, arguing that EPA’s decision not to ban chlorpyrifos ignored “solid science” from its […]
ADP Private Payrolls: 219,000 Jobs Gained, 23,000 More Manufacturing Jobs…
The ADP national employment report is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of companies served by ADP. The report measures approximately 24 million U.S. workers along with employment trends in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. For July 2018, ADP has calculated payroll increases of […]
What Does It Take to Put a Waterfall on a Skyscraper?…
You don’t see this very often—a 350-foot artificial waterfall pouring out of a skyscraper. It looks cool, but it also looks expensive. Gushing water isn’t free: You not only have to get the H2O, but you need energy to bring it to the top of the building. This is why the building only runs this […]
Zinke Is Shipping the Headquarters of the Largest Land-Owning Agency Out of DC…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making plans to move the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C., to a city in the West. The federal government owns 640 million acres in the U.S., or roughly 28 percent of the nation’s entire landmass. The BLM manages 248.3 million acres of public […]
Trump Revokes Obama’s Response to BP Oil Spill…
President Trump on Tuesday formally revoked an order that former President Barack Obama issued after the massive BP oil spill eight years ago, an effort to promote domestic offshore energy production. Trump replaced the Obama order with a new executive order that extols environmental goals, but does not include Obama’s conservation directives and task forces. […]
Rolls Back Obama’s ‘Uber-Bureaucratic’ Ocean Policies…
Hypocritical G7 Ministers Rail Against Audacity of the U.S. Trade Position Requiring “Reciprocal and Fair” Trade Deals…
From the G7 Mission Statement outlining the objectives of their meeting: “From May 31 – June 2, 2018, G7 Ministers responsible for development cooperation met in Whistler, Canada, to discuss their shared priorities on some of the most pressing global development and humanitarian challenges, including advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls”…
California Becomes First State Requiring Solar Panels on New Homes…
California on Wednesday became the first state to require solar panels on all new, single-family homes. The California Energy Commission voted 5-0 to approve changes to the state’s building code to require single-family homes be equipped with solar panels starting in 2020. The regulations also apply to new multi-family buildings of three stories or fewer. […]
Trump’s DOI Releases the Results of the Largest Oil Lease Sale In U.S. History…
The Department of the Interior released the results of the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history Wednesday, reflecting the state of industry interest in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The results were similar to what experts expected, bringing in $124.7 million in high bids, slightly higher than the $121 million […]
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