EPA Uses Revisionist History, Ignores Recent Studies
Perhaps the oil and natural gas industry has become a victim of its own success. In the face of an onslaught of new methane regulations, Western Energy Alliance has pointed repeatedly to industry’s success in reducing methane emissions...
Ever since President Obama handed a major victory to the environmental lobby by stopping the Keystone XL pipeline, Big Green needed a new fight. The answer was the Keep-It-in-the-Ground movement,...
The costs to taxpayers of recent Keep-It-in-the-Ground protests in Colorado are beginning to surface. According to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) spent $2,500 on overtime pay for the Lakewood Police Department, which...
Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege to work with some of our friends in other resource industries. Leaders from oil and natural gas, mining and agriculture have come together because we face similar challenges from government overreach. However, we’re also experiencing success... 
The staff of Western Energy Alliance recently went on a rig tour in Weld County courtesy of PDC Energy. I love getting out into the field and seeing an operation firsthand and meeting the hardworking men and women working on the front lines. In all of our regulatory and... 
After years of collaboration with the Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8, and the Ute Indian Tribe, we have the first phase of the 2014 Uinta Basin Emissions Inventory. This... 
The oil and natural gas industry has undergone significant technological transformation, and wildlife is truly gaining ground. Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) have just released a report, Gaining Ground: Industry Innovation Reduces Impacts on...
The Keep-It-in-the-Ground’s global Break Free 2016 campaign came to Colorado last week and was disruptive as promised. Two protests around Denver coincided with other demonstrations in California, New York, Washington, Europe, South America and Australia. Colorado was... 
It appears the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) doesn’t believe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.Last week FWS announced an expansion of its take rule that allows wind energy companies to kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles each year, and also to kill or injure...
BLM’s proposed venting and flaring rule is the administration’s latest regulation targeting oil and natural gas production. BLM’s proposal suffers from wide-ranging problems including jurisdictional overreach into air quality, technologically infeasible requirements, and implementation costs...
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