The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing last week titled “Tapping America’s Unconventional Oil Resources for Job Creation and Affordable Domestic Energy: Technology & ...

Huntley represents the Wilderness Society. On Sept. 28, The Plain Dealer ran an Associated Press story ("Senate approves spending measure") that quoted White House spokesman Tony Fratto, who believes ...

The question of “which comes first?” was dominant as oil shale development proponents told a US Senate committee May 15 that regulations need to be developed, and opponents said impacts need to be ...

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The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

America’s frackers are looking at opportunities abroad to tap new growth markets. Developing shale basins include the Vaca Muerta in Argentina and the Diyarbakir basin in Turkiye. In the Middle East, ...

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With the continuing debate in Congress over the best way to rein in high energy prices, proponents of a full-scale commercial federal oil shale leasing program are hoping that consumer concerns about ...

DENVER – Federal land managers have proposed allocating nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for potential commercial oil shale development.The Bureau of Land Management ...

A Denver court recently decided that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service would have to reconsider placing Graham’s Penstemon—a small purple wildflower that grows on the oil-shale fields of the Uintah ...