Tag: Natural gas
Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured
Gunnar W. Schade, Texas A&M University
If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen...
‘Renewable’ natural gas may sound green, but it’s not an antidote...
Emily Grubert, Georgia Institute of Technology
Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use. Although it...
Both conservatives and liberals want a green energy future, but for...
Deidra Miniard, Indiana University; Joe Kantenbacher, Indiana University, and Shahzeen Attari, Indiana University
Political divisions are a growing fixture in the United States today, whether...
Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel...
Cara Daggett, Virginia Tech
As the Trump administration works to weaken regulations on fossil fuel production and use, a larger struggle is playing out across...
Oil companies are thinking about a low-carbon future, but aren’t making...
Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis and Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
The global oil industry stands at a crossroads. Corporate leaders are weighing...
Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives...
Ann Scarborough Bull, University of California, Santa Barbara and Milton Love, University of California, Santa Barbara
Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious...
Trump offshore drilling plan may be dead in the water, but...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
President Trump’s effort to expand offshore oil and gas exploration has stalled, and may be dead in the water....
Underwater mudslides are the biggest threat to offshore drilling, and energy...
Ian R. MacDonald, Florida State University
Like generals planning for the last war, oil company managers and government inspectors tend to believe that because they...