Many areas in the U.S. miss out on the full benefits of our energy revolution due to difficulties transporting our resources to where they are needed. Delayed or blocked oil and gas pipelines have negative implications on energy costs and accessibility, and can have lasting impacts on various sectors of the economy reliant on these vital resources. . Pipelines that aren’t built translate to higher energy prices, as residents in the Northeast have discovered firsthand during frigid winters.
What a difference a year makes. Last January, the Obama Administration took one final shot just before Inauguration Day to try to stop the Dakota Access (DAPL) pipeline project by issuing notice that the project would require another environmental evaluation. This after almost three years of review
For the first time in two long years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has reached its full, five-member complement following the swearing in of the new FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre this month. Former Chairman Norman Bay resigned from his post in late January when President Trump
Although the Keystone XL pipeline has been out of the public eye for a number of months, TransCanada has been working in Nebraska to obtain state approval of the pipeline following the federal government’s decision to endorse the project. As you will recall, Keystone XL was first proposed in 2008
Venezuela’s on-going political and economic crisis emphasizes the need for the United States to continue to diversify and grow its supplies of energy, particularly from our neighbor to the north – Canada. More pointedly, it highlights the importance of expanding and building more pipelines from
Previous Energy Institute reports have provided both quantitative and qualitative detail with respect to how the dramatic increase in natural gas (and oil) production in the United States over the past half-decade has benefited businesses, consumers and communities across the nation.
These benefits have come in many different forms, from energy-usage cost-savings for consumers exceeding several thousand dollars per household per month, to the creation of millions of jobs and the lowering of the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions profile to levels not seen since the mid-1990s.
WASHINGTON – The lack of pipeline infrastructure in the Northeast has resulted in some of the highest electricity rates in the nation for families and business—and it will only get worse, according to a new report by the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy. The latest installment in the
Today, President Trump signed what might be the most consequential energy-related Executive Order (EO) ever. The Chamber has been at the forefront of most of the policy issues addressed in the EO, and our Energy Institute president and CEO, Karen Harbert, was in the room at EPA Headquarters when the
