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Fiona Hill said at the House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearing that if the U.S. stops fracking, it would help Vladimir Putin and Russia.

U.S. production of petroleum has skyrocketed in recent years thanks to new extraction methods such as fracking.

Boris Johnson has done his first really, really bad thing since becoming Prime Minister: banning fracking for shale gas.

LONDON (AP) — The British government has announced that it will no longer allow fracking because of new scientific analysis that casts doubts on the safety of the controversial practice.

President Donald Trump mocked teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday evening, after she sent leftists swooning with her tearful, accusatory speech at the United Nations earlier in the day in New York.

A national energy strategy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions yielded from the burning of fossil fuels requires the use of nuclear energy, determined Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, offering his analysis in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday promised to sign an executive order on her first day in office, putting a moratorium on new fossil fuel leases and pledged to ban fracking “everywhere.”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) promised on Wednesday to ban hydraulic fracking outright if elected president in 2020. 

Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro called climate change the “most existential threat” to the world’s future.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday called on others in the Democrat presidential field to support a “full fracking ban” on both public and private lands.

Former Vice President Joe Biden released a campaign ad heavily targeting union members on Monday in honor of Labor Day.

“Pocahontas and Sleepy Joe, I don’t think they give a damn about western Pennsylvania. Do you?” Trump asked, referring to presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Many workers in the crowd shouted, “No!”

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to reverse course on his support for coal at the second Democrat presidential debate, despite having championed a “clean” form of the energy source throughout the Obama years. 

DETROIT, Michigan — Former vice preisdent Joe Biden declared at the second Democrat debate in Detroit on Wednesday evening that he would fight climate change by eliminating coal, fossil fuels, and fracking.

During Wednesday’s CNN Democratic debate, 2020 presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that there wouldn’t be any place for fossil fuels under a Biden administration and “We would make sure it’s eliminated, and no more subsidies for…any fossil

Boris Johnson is going to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I’m more optimistic than many people seem to be, but I’m also prepared to be disappointed.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), a leading proponent of the Green New Deal, broke the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge by accepting thousands of dollars from the very oil and gas lobbyists he claimed to be “at war” against.

Britain’s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe (worth £21 billion) is leaving the United Kingdom and the European Union for tax exile in Monaco, depriving the Treasury of up to £4 billion in tax. This is more tax than the entire bottom 40 percent of the British population pay: that’s because none of them pays any tax at all.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal was already tried under Obama — and failed. The U.S. reduced emissions by following the opposite of her advice.

Soaring domestic production levels means the U.S. is ready to pass both Saudi Arabia and Russia to reclaim the title of the world’s biggest crude oil producer. It last held that position in 1974.

Bernie Marcus writes that President Trump’s National Security Strategy tells us that we must “embrace energy dominance” by “unleashing our abundant energy resources,” including natural gas. If we follow that course, we could break free of the stranglehold of OPEC.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted President Trump’s move to allow increased offshore drilling, telling him that any attempts to do so should take place off of the coast of Florida near his Mar-a-Lago resort, rather than in California waters.

The latest report from the International Energy Agency finds American oil production at its highest level in 50 years and projects that it will surpass that of Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a $190.3 billion budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year, beginning July 1 — which the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature intends to bust.

California Governor Jerry Brown fired back at left-wing hecklers who disrupted his speech on climate change at a gathering in Germany, joking: “Let’s put you in the ground.”

California Democrats are triggering nationwide criticism, and even ridicule, for passing aggressive laws and regulations on climate change. But a new poll reveals they are giving most Californians exactly what they want.

A new study conducted by Duke University found that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not contaminated the groundwater in West Virginia.

Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has introduced a motion to end oil drilling and production near public places in a measure that could kill America’s next oil and gas fracking boom.

U.S. Geological Survey issued new reports stating that cyclical drought areas in California could be relieved by purifying the vast amounts of underground brackish (salty) water.

A Columbiana County, Ohio, woman is headed to jail after pleading guilty to multiple counts of voter registration fraud while working for a leftist community organizing group.

Fitch Credit Ratings has declared that the profitable doubling of U.S. oil drilling over the last 9 months means the reemerging U.S. shale boom is a potent threat to Saudi Arabia — despite the Saudis declaring a price war in 2014.

President Trump has wasted no time at all in pressing the reset button on US energy policy.

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has been twice rebuked by Britain’s advertising standards watchdog this week after it tried to deny that claims it made about fracking were false. Earlier this week the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that FoE

President Barack Obama campaigned with the pledge he would fundamentally transform the energy sector of the United States when he took office, and to a large extent, he succeeded. Most of this legacy was strong-armed into law using executive orders and administrative overreach, and, as a result, the survival of his agenda depended upon a presidential administration succeeding him with similar goals and a desire to cement his executive orders into place for years to come.

A western Texas oil and natural gas shale formation was labeled the “largest” of its kind by the U.S. Geological Survey on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton has confirmed what green activists have long indignantly denied: the big money behind many anti-fracking campaigns comes from Putin’s Russia.