Republican budget plan would force Keystone XL approval
The House Republican budget plan unveiled on Tuesday would force the Obama administration to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and and assumes that expanded oil and gas drilling on federal...
View ArticleHouse passes amendment banning carbon tax
The amendment by Louisiana conservative firebrand Steve Scalise passed Friday as part of a bill called the REINS act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny), which would require...
View ArticleGOP Chairman: Keystone XL will get approval if Republicans win Senate
Getting approval for TransCanada's pipeline would be among the top priorities for a Republican-controlled Senate.
View ArticleThey’ll be back: Republicans vow to try again on Keystone
GOP leaders have signaled that Keystone XL is one of their top priorities when they take control of the Senate in January.
View ArticleAlaska House advances operating budget with broad cuts
The budget advanced includes $273.8 million less for agency operations compared with the current fiscal year.
View ArticleRick Perry pushes Keystone XL during Iowa GOP event
Speaking before roughly 1,300 people gathered Saturday night at an Iowa Republican Party dinner, Perry said the pipeline would drive down the cost of electricity and help lower taxes and boost wages.
View ArticleHouse Majority Leader McCarthy announces vote to repeal crude export ban at...
The vote is a victory for a broad coalition of Houston-based oil producers, who have lobbied for the change since a glut of oil flowing from shale pushed the price of U.S. oil below international...
View ArticleIn slap at Obama, GOP-led House moves to block climate rule
s President Barack Obama worked to hammer out a global climate agreement in Paris, Republicans in Congress were moving to block his plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power...
View ArticleOil export ban in play in final-stage talks on budget deal
Lifting the ban is a top ask for GOP negotiators working on the sprawling legislation.
View ArticleWhite House, Congress getting closer to budget deal ending crude export ban
House Speaker Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers he expected compromise legislation to be publicly released Tuesday — a measure that would deliver victories for to both sides.
View ArticleFiscal deal will end crude oil export ban, Ryan says
Republican leaders predicted the package would come to a vote in the House and Senate on Thursday, allowing lawmakers to head home for the holidays having completed their needed tasks.
View ArticleBig Oil among biggest winners from budget deal
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., welcomed the tax side of the massive deal but is lowering expectations about GOP victories in the $1.1 trillion spending bill.
View ArticleNo export ban? No problem for U.S. refiners getting tax break
The House and Senate on Tuesday evening reached a deal on tax and spending plans that included an end to the oil-trade limits that were implemented in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo.
View ArticleWind and solar sectors applaud federal budget deal
While the lifting of the crude oil ban received the lion's share of the attention in the budget compromise, the bill also renews the federal production tax credit, or PTC, that benefits the growth of...
View ArticleCongress OKs year-end budget deal that would end crude export ban
Obama will sign the measure, which includes many of the spending increases he fought for all year and is largely cleansed of GOP attempts to block his moves on the environment, financial regulation,...
View ArticleObama: Cheap gasoline prices drove oil tax decision
The proposal faces an uphill battle in the Republican-led Congress, which has repeatedly pushed back against the president's climate change initiatives.
View ArticleAPI president attacks Obama’s oil tax as “extremist agenda”
Gerard expressed astonishment at the president's proposal Monday, saying his group was only notified of the tax as the administration was "getting ready to roll it out."
View ArticleA lonely GOP voice on climate change
Jay Faison, entrepreneur and son of a wealthy North Carolina real estate developer, decided three years ago to take a break from heli-skiing and trekking across Africa. He offloaded his stake in the...
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