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Editors at National Review Online lament the outgoing president’s approach to offshore drilling. [T]he effort of advisers to disguise President Biden’s declining mental health throughout his time in office, along…
Breanne Deppisch writes for the Washington Examiner about President Biden’s commitment to the green agenda. President Joe Biden campaigned for office in 2020 vowing to halt new drilling on federal…
In 2020, citing risks to the state's coastal economy and ecology, Gov. Cooper got Pres. Trump to add North Carolina to his offshore energy leasing moratorium, finding out later it…
Robert Bradley writes for National Review Online about the environmental lobby’s response to recent Trump administration actions. The Interior Department just revised a series of Obama-era regulations governing offshore oil…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Obama administration had estimated that the mid-Atlantic OCS holds about 2.4 billion technically recoverable barrels of oil and 2.34 trillion technically…
Chris White of the Daily Caller details a potential constitutional fight featuring California and the federal government. California officials plan on preventing the federal government from transporting oil and gas…
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced a new draft proposal for opening up offshore oil and gas exploration, including off the coast of North Carolina.
You probably know about the problem with government incentives. But were you aware of the problem with government disincentives? This update discusses the new presidential administration working to weed out…
In response to the president's executive order, the Department of the Interior has released a report identified "a number of burdens that specifically impede the production and transportation of energy…
President Bush lifted the executive order banning offshore drilling and prior to him leaving office, the Department of Interior had developed a plan that would have allowed drilling all along…
The Minerals Management Service (an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior) has been receiving comments on a proposal to allow offshore drilling along the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).…
(Cross Posted on EnvironmentNC) On Tuesday night, the U.S. House passed its energy bill (H.R. 6899). There are many problems with the bill. The Institute for Energy Research has done…