Energy firms want action on Atlantic drilling
Energy industry leaders are fretting that it could be a decade before the federal government allows them to hunt for oil and gas along the East Coast, unless the Obama administration shifts its...
View ArticleStudy: Atlantic drilling could give economy $23.5B boost
If companies were allowed to drill for oil and gas in Atlantic waters off the East Coast, the work would help create nearly 280,000 new jobs and contribute some $23.5 billion to the U.S. economy each...
View ArticleCritics take aim at upcoming federal report on Atlantic drilling
The Obama administration is on track this week to release a final environmental analysis that would help pave the way for the first seismic studies in decades to pinpoint oil and gas off the East...
View ArticleFederal law blocking cheap Texas fuel from reaching frozen East Coast
As freezing weather drained stockpiles of propane to their lowest seasonal level in two decades on the U.S. East Coast this month, shivering New Englanders couldn’t tap abundant supplies sailing out of...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists tap actor to warn about offshore seismic
A conservation group is hoping a little star power will draw more attention to its concerns about seismic oil and gas research proposed in Atlantic waters off the east coast.
View ArticleFeds OK first-in-decades oil studies off East Coast
The Obama administration on Friday gave the oil industry the green light to use air guns and sonic sensors to search for possible oil and gas under Atlantic waters, overriding environmentalists...
View ArticleFeds urged to put Atlantic waters on auction block
Oil development in Atlantic waters from Africa to Canada should encourage the Obama administration to sell drilling leases in waters hugging the East Coast, a leading industry trade group said Wednesday.
View ArticleGulf Coast drives surge in U.S. exports of petroleum products
The United States is exporting more petroleum products, most of which is coming from the Gulf Coast.
View ArticleObama administration opens door to Atlantic drilling
The Obama administration is poised to unveil a draft plan for selling offshore oil and gas leases that is expected to rule out auctioning drilling rights in parts of the Atlantic Ocean as well as in...
View ArticleTensions ignite on East Coast as White House weighs Atlantic drilling
The prospect of a new generation of Atlantic drilling is stirring a heated debate up and down the East Coast.
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