During a week when starved Israeli hostages, resembling Holocaust survivors, were finally returned by Hamas in a macabre ceremony, few people focused on a story involving natural gas. However, in the long term, this could...more
The election of General Joseph Aoun as president of Lebanon ended a two-year stalemate in which the position was vacant, and Lebanon basically had no government at all. The cause of the stalemate was obvious. Hezbollah, the...more
Saturday, February 1, 2025 may go down as the date the great Trade War began. On that date, less than two weeks following his second inauguration, President Donald J. Trump announced 25% tariffs on both Mexico and Canada...more
Great Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shaken up the British political scene since July 2024, including making a priority of a “Net Zero” policy regarding energy generation and use in the United Kingdom. Led...more
2/10/2025
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
EU ,
International Trade ,
National Security ,
Net Zero ,
Renewable Energy ,
UK
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently doubled down on the Empire State’s refusal to allow fracking by signing a bill that would ban the technique outright using carbon dioxide instead of water. The ban extends the...more
1/10/2025
/ Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Fracking ,
Infrastructure ,
Marcellus Shale ,
Natural Gas ,
New Legislation ,
New York ,
Oil & Gas ,
Renewable Energy ,
State Bans ,
State Legislatures
In the early hours of Monday, January 6, 2025, a severe winter storm fell on much of the MidAtlantic region and extended into New England. Forecasters predicted that this would only be the first in a series of significant...more
1/9/2025
/ Biden Administration ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Infrastructure ,
Jones Act ,
Natural Gas ,
Russia ,
State and Local Government ,
Trump Administration
As I predicted might happen in a previous article, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stopped Russia from exporting oil and natural gas pumped in Russia through pipelines traversing Ukraine to Austria, Hungary and other...more
1/8/2025
/ Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Foreign Policy ,
Military Conflict ,
National Security ,
NATO ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Russia ,
Ukraine
The FAA ended 2024 by issuing a National Part 139 CertAlert (No. 24-11) concerning Output Based Testing After Completion of Fluorine Free Foam (F3) Transition. The Alert specifies the types of testing that must be done on...more
Canada's troubled Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, faced growing calls to resign last week after his Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Director, Chrystia Freeland, resigned over disagreements about government spending....more
By a 3-2 vote on November 11, the Board of Supervisors of Cecil Township in Western Pennsylvania increased the setback distance for fracking operations to 2,500 feet from protected structures like residences and businesses,...more
The collapse of the Assad Regime in Syria is the latest in a series of political and military defeats that have staggered the Kremlin. In just two short weeks, the 54-year-old Assad family dynasty fell to a collection of...more
Paradoxically, the world of the mid 2020s is a world in which countries otherwise rich in energy supply nonetheless have been having trouble keeping the lights on, both undermining their political, societal, and economic...more
Despite being at war for almost three years, Russia has continued to ship natural gas via pipelines through Ukraine to other countries in Europe. That has kept money flowing to both countries, which helps as they try to kill...more
The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) ended at 2:40 am local time in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday, with the nations involved finally reaching agreement to provide...more
In 2019, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation denied a Section 401 Clean Streams Certification for the Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE). NESE would have connected the natural gas fields of...more
When he assumes office again on January 20, 2025, newly reelected President Donald J. Trump can make one move regarding energy that not only will facilitate the increased availability of domestic oil and gas production but...more
11/12/2024
/ Clean Water Act ,
Electricity ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
FERC ,
Fracking ,
Interstate Commerce ,
Jurisdiction ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Renewable Energy
On November 5, a few issues have come to dominate the national discourse. The right of a woman to an abortion, the fate of our porous borders and of those illegal/undocumented immigrants, and the wars in the Middle East and...more
Ever since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon, France’s President Emmanuel Macron has been taking an increasingly strong public stance against the actions of the Jewish State, if not against the...more
11/6/2024
/ Energy Sector ,
Fracking ,
France ,
Investment ,
Israel ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
Middle East ,
Military Conflict ,
Popular ,
Qatar ,
Ukraine
As the Ukraine war progresses toward its third winter, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds himself besieged on numerous fronts. During the first 30 months of this conflict, Putin used his vast energy resources to hedge...more
With the whole world watching events in Lebanon to see if Israel next launches a threatened ground invasion into that country, following its recent “culling” of the entire Hezbollah high command, another area that bears...more
A win for business. The Supreme Court ends Chevron Deference in a spate of recent decisions limiting administrative authority and assisting regulated parties in challenging agency rulemaking.
Loper Bright and Relentless-...more
8/28/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Anti-Fraud Provisions ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Air Act ,
Corner Post Inc v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ,
Enforcement ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) ,
Ohio v Environmental Protection Agency ,
Rulemaking Process ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Statutory Interpretation
As much of the world marveled while Serbia's national basketball team almost upset the heavily favored United States at the Paris Olympics, back home in the capital city, Belgrade, a more important national event took place –...more
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries enacted a series of embargoes against Russian goods and raw materials, including natural gas and oil, that many did not think possible or implementable given...more
8/13/2024
/ China ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Embargo ,
EU ,
Exports ,
Fertilizers ,
Imports ,
International Trade ,
NATO ,
Natural Gas ,
Russia
During recent Senate hearings pertaining to energy and appointment made by the Biden administration to the United States Department of Energy, some of the most interesting questions have been asked by Senator John Kennedy of...more
7/1/2024
/ Biden Administration ,
Climate Change ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Infrastructure ,
Minerals ,
Natural Gas ,
Nuclear Power ,
Permits ,
Pipelines ,
STEM ,
Transmission Grid
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it lost access to many world markets, including much of Europe. Countries like Germany, which for years had relied on Russian gas and oil, now turned sharply away and sought to...more