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Last week the Bidenistas expanded the federal bureaucracy once again by adding two new offices, complete with top-level apparatchiks to mismanage them. The new offices are part of the Department of Energy, which is managed by the dullest tool in Biden's cabinet toolshed--Jennifer Granholm. The new bureaucracies are (1) the Grid Deployment Office, and (2)

We spotted the following headline from EIA's latest "Today in Energy" post: "EIA expects renewables to account for 22% of U.S. electricity generation in 2022." Wow! Look at that renewable energy growing! Except when you dig into the numbers, you find the headline is VERY misleading. Renewables, which include not only wind and solar but

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) two Republican members, Mark Christie and James Danly, sent a letter to Vanguard Group asking the company for detailed information about how it throws its weight around with the companies it invests in. Specifically, the two FERC commissioners want to know if Vanguard, with some $8.5 trillion (!) under

Yesterday MDN poked fun at the gyrating up-and-down predictions from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) with respect to the spot price of natural gas at the benchmark Henry Hub (see EIA 2H22 Henry Hub Price Prediction Continues to Gyrate Up & Down). Our sarcasm and dry wit were lost on at least one humorless

One of the unforeseen "benefits" of the Manchin-Schumer "Make Inflation Higher" bill is that it will empower the jackbooted thugs who control the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by empowering them to enforce onerous regulations that require expensive technologies like carbon capture and storage (CCS) to be used by the oil and gas industry. Welcome

Two weeks ago, MDN brought you the news that a small amount of natural gas--roughly 22 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day)--is once again flowing into the closed Freeport LNG export facility (see Small Amount of NatGas Flowing to Freeport LNG Once Again). The facility is not due to reopen until October. So why is

In June 2017, MDN reported that EmberClear, based in Houston, TX, wants to build a $1 billion, 1,100 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired plant about 15 miles from Springfield, Illinois, in Pawnee (see NatGas and Coal Go to War in Central Illinois). In April 2018, Springfield city alderman approved a deal for what is now called

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s foolish plan to force PA’s coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to begin paying an obscenely high tax on carbon dioxide emissions as part of the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) got blocked on July 1 by PA Commonwealth Court (see PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall

Bitcoin mining is becoming an important customer for Marcellus/Utica natural gas. Gigantic computer server farms run complex mathematical computations and the result of those computations is a blockchain. When a blockchain is formed, the server farm doing the computations gets compensated with bitcoins, a form of digital money. Bitcoin (the generic term is cryptocurrency) mining

New York State has become aggressively hostile to any business remotely connected to fossil fuels. NY is openly prejudiced and discriminates against oil and natural gas companies. In May 2021 we told you about a “bitcoin miner” that uses natural gas