Tag: oil and gas industry
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Big Oil’s Investment in the NRA Could Reshape U.S. Energy, Land and Wildlife Policy
As part of a major effort since 2008 to bolster its lobbying and political power…
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New Report Reveals Additional Fossil Fuel Subsidies Equaling $4 Billion Each Year
Though eliminated for most U.S. industries more than a quarter century ago, special rules protected eligibility for fossil fuels, and have allowed a growing range of oil and gas activities to escape corporate income taxes entirely …
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States Turn Blind Eye as Fracking Industry Routinely Violates Laws
A scathing new investigation from EnergyWire confirms the worst fears of citizens across the country who live near fracking sites: state regulators are not doing everything they can to prevent oil and gas companies …
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Fracking Industry’s Faulty Claims Cast Doubt on Shale Investments
The way that oil and gas companies describe their prospects in their financial statements matters because investors—and not just the uber-wealthy ones but also pension funds, university endowments, average folks with retirement savings …
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WY Groups Call Foul as EPA Hands Fracking Groundwater Contamination Investigation Over to State
Pavillion-area citizens, landowners and environmental groups today condemned Gov. Mead’s announcement that the state is assuming control from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the investigation into groundwater contamination …