The politics of energy don’t fit neatly on a scorecard but some things are predictable, including legislation to thwart fractivist pipeline obstruction.

Pipeline construction continues to be the prime mover in summer energy news. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection gave Sunoco Logistics permission to restart completion of two of the four remaining unfinished areas of Mariner East 2 pipeline. Work has been suspended since May…

Vic Furman reacts to Governor Cuomo’s “America was never that great” comment and explains how Andy has systematically destroyed hope for Upstate New York.

“As for making America great, America was never that great!”

So says the great divider who serves as our New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo; the man-child raised with a silver spoon in his mouth and a ticket to political office in his rear pocket.

You have to live in Upstate New…

Three recently released reports highlight natural gas industry economic benefits, as well as its resiliency and bright future in delivering consumer savings.

Natural gas touches every aspect of our daily lives, from fueling our stoves and cars, to producing electricity that charges our mobile phones, provides us with light and keeps us cool. Without energy, and in particular affordable natural gas, our lives and economy would come to a…

Environmental extremists such as the NRDC and Sierra Club are exploiting environmental impact rules to slow energy infrastructure development for profit.

The Update to the Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) could not…

It was no slip of the tongue or mistake. It was deliberate. He meant it. He wanted to shock his audience so as to stand out from his primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon. He wanted to tell the radical leftists who sway so much of what happens in New York that he will never be outflanked in their rankings. He lied to attract their votes when he said “America was never that great” and he did so because he’s a craven politician.…

Fractivists and other “keep-it-iin-the-ground” folks cannot resist the lure of judicial activism and neither can some judges, which is why they pursue it.

When it comes to legal strategy, the “Keep It in the Ground” folks are taking their cue from Frank Sinatra’s hit song “High Hopes” about a “silly old ram [who] thought he’d punch a hole in a dam.” Against all logic and multiple courtroom losses, they keep launching the same fatally flawed argument—that the…

Colorado landowners have taken the initiative to protect themselves from fractivist policies intended to steal their land and deprive them of their rights.

There’s something exciting happening in the mountains and Colorado landowners are at the center of it. They are striking back at fractivist attempts to take their land under the guise of ludicrous regulations designed to stop all oil and gas development.

They have put forth a Colorado Constitution…

Cabot, Seneca and Chief have been ramping up production in preparation of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline coming online this month.

According to a report from BTU Analytics, the top three shippers who will soon flow natural gas along Williams’ Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline (ASP), …

A bill has now been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would put pipeline water quality certification manners on New York Gov. Andrew “Corruptocrat” Cuomo.

Finally, Congress is starting to pay attention to the great gas robbery that has taken place in the Northeast. New York Governor Andrew “Corruptocrat” Cuomo has done everything he can stop pipelines that would provide much needed natural gas to places such as Boston. He’s primarily done it by instructing…

Stephen Heins reveals the insanity of a California solar mandate, which will deepen the impacts of the energy debacle in which the state is already mired.

California’s new solar mandate will cost much more than anyone was told, writes Steven Sexton at the Wall Street Journal. Essentially, the public sector,…

Scotland officially opposes fracking out of a fear of being politically incorrect, but hope arises in the once Land of the Brave as “fracking” is whispered.

The recent history of Scotland, home of William Wallace and “Land of the Brave,” where freedom was once worth fighting for, has been one of a long descent into feckless political correctness. Fracking is one of the latest victims, but …

The DRBC is fiddling with fracking games while Camden, Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington burn with a pollution fever caused by raw sewage in the Delaware.

The DRBC has spent massive energy, time and money pursuing an unjustified fracking ban at the behest of special interests. Those special interests (e.g., the Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a Povertykeeper and the Clean Air Council) have been financed by uber-rich foundations such as the Heinz Endowments…

Vic Furman does a fictitious “Dear Abby” column asking for advice on how to save Upstate New York from a corrupt, tyrannical governor bent on destroying it.

Dear Abby,

I live in Upstate New York. It is the highest taxed state in the country with respect to combined state and federal taxes. It is such a beautiful and scenic state and therein lies the problem, or at least part of it. You see, although New York City has grown in population, Upstate New…

New York energy policy is now being determined through elitist mobocracy as policy-makers everywhere attempt to appease virtue-signaling trust-funder types.

New York energy policy is a complete disaster. Energy In Depth has a great piece up noting the insanity and pointing out what Andrew Cuomo…

Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added.

Mob boss Governor Andrew “Corruptocrat” Cuomo described recently convicted Joe Percoco, his former aide, as his “brother.” Percoco was the apparent bag man in whatever crooked deal…

Harrisburg politicians earn Pinocchio points in a new video by the Clear Energy Alliance which clearly explains the PA severance tax issue.

A killer video on the topic of a severance tax in Pennsylvania has just been published (on Youtube) by the Clear Energy Alliance. The…

The DRBC justification for a fracking ban just derailed with a train wreck that dumped New Jersey’s waste, on the way to New York, into the Delaware River.

The DRBC’s juvenile justification for its proposed framework ban is essentially “My God, there could be an accident” or something like that. There was a railroad accident yesterday and it dumped fuel oil and waste from New Jersey into the West Branch of the Delaware River. It had zero to do with fracking,…

Green energy fanatics keep telling us renewables are coming cost competitive but the cost advantage of natural gas continues to be insurmountable for them.

A week rarely goes by at the EIA’s Today on Energy blog without some wonderful news on the cost advantage of natural gas. Yesterday’s post is a perfect example. The title, “Average U.S.…

Natural gas development in the eastern U.S. faces several big issues about which I recently spoke during an interview with the Bakken Oil Business Journal.

Representatives from the Bakken Oil Business Journal called me a few weeks ago to get a perspective on what’s happening with natural gas development in the eastern U.S.. I was…