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A Gallup poll shows that Democrats — many of whom believe climate change will end civilization in 12 years — oppose nuclear power despite the fact that it is a clean energy resource with an overall good safety record.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared Monday that the city would abandon plans to rebuild three natural gas power plants, despite concerns that the city could face acute power shortages as a result.

The “Green New Deal” introduced Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will not save the planet from its supposed destruction in 12 years. It would, however, harm the environment by banning the three most revolutionary “green” inventions of the last several decades.

Actor Jimmy Carey added the latest drawing to his collection of latest politically-charged artwork on Thursday, this time of an oil rig exploding over a shirtless President Donald Trump. 

Power outages and natural gas interruptions were reported in parts of the Midwest as bitterly cold weather wreaks havoc across the region. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Israel, Greece and Cyprus will sign an agreement early next year to build a pipeline to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, while the United States pledged its support for the ambitious project.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland has signed a long-term deal with a U.S. company for supplies of liquefied natural gas as part of an effort to reduce its dependence on Russian energy, the two sides announced on Wednesday.

In the 2018 midterm elections, voters in several states cast ballots in favor of energy and natural gas development.

A new underwater pipeline connecting Israel’s natural gas reserves to Greece, Italy, and Cyprus will eventually give all of Europe a new source of energy to challenge traditional suppliers in Russia and the Middle East.

Europe needs to diversify its energy supplies to cut its dependency on Russia, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday.

A group of German lawmakers have accused Angela Merkel of working to place Germany under Russian influence as she pushes on with a gas pipeline that would see central Europe directly connected to Russia for energy — just months after U.S. President Donald Trump warned against the potential consequences of the project.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas announced this week that the oil and gas industry remained strong in the third quarter of 2018. The good news came amid pipeline capacity concerns in the Permian Basin.

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus and Egypt on Wednesday signed an agreement paving the way for the Mediterranean’s first sub-sea pipeline to carry Cypriot natural gas to the Arab country for re-export to Europe.

Polish President Andrzej Duda raised alarms Tuesday at the White House to the danger of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany that President Donald Trump alerted to at a summer NATO summit.

President Trump’s America First energy policy has catapulted the U.S. to the world’s largest global crude oil producer, according to the EIA.

Leaders of five Caspian Sea nations — Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan — reportedly signed a historic agreement on Sunday that aims to settle a longstanding dispute over ownership of oil and gas reserves on the landlocked body of water.

The American Petroleum Institute’s (API) June statistical report released on Thursday shows the highest-ever production of U.S. crude oil and natural gas liquids.

The Eagle Ford shale formation, a Texas oil and natural gas powerhouse, appears primed for another energy boom. According to the latest report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the land sits on billions of barrels of untapped oil and natural gas.

The Permian Basin, already considered a major force among the world’s oil producers, will double its output to reach 5.4 million barrels per day (mbd) by 2023, according to a report released Wednesday.

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.

Saudi oil executives inked multi-billion dollar deals with companies to explore building petrochemical facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast. Essentially, they hope to capitalize on the U.S. oil and gas boom, largely fueled by shale drilling in the Permian Basin.

Israel’s energy minister said this week that the country aims to eliminate the use of coal, gasoline and diesel fuel by 2030.

JERUSALEM – Israel has struck an “historic” contract for sales of billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas to Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday.

China most definitely had some work to do at improving air quality, with the ashtray skies of major cities having become a constant source of both embarrassment and illness, but the authoritarian government found it necessary to reverse a recent ban on coal because the peasants were freezing.

Israel and European nations will sign a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to advance the construction of the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline, the financial news outlet Globes reported.

TEL AVIV – Royal Dutch Shell Plc is considering buying natural gas from Israel and Cyprus in a measure that could turn the Mediterranean region into a major gas-producing hub, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of energy independence for the Three Seas nations in order to “remain sovereign, secure, and free from foreign coercion” as he spoke to the leaders of the 12 nations situated between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas at a summit in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday.

The former Treasury Secretary is worried that exports will drive up prices for U.S. consumers.

When one thinks of the richest regions of the United States, the opulence of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the high-end lifestyle of New York’s Tribeca, and the high-tech high life of the Silicon Valley may come to mind, but when ranking the wealthiest counties in the nation, the top spot went to an unassuming, small, south Texas locale.

Within the first year after the federal government lifted its ban on exporting American oil, Texas producers are seeing spikes in demand on the international market.

Texas leads the nation with the most economically-recovered cities since the Great Recession, says a new study by WalletHub.

The BrightSource Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility, which uses 320,000 mirrors to create thermal energy, still qualifies under state rules as an alternative energy source, despite using about 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, according to a report by the Press Telegram.

TEL AVIV – Israel is set to double its annual water supply to Jordan as the country suffers from a deepening water crisis, made worse by the influx of refugees flooding its borders since the Syrian civil war broke out.

Iran is adopting Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal strategy by scrambling to sign Western energy deals as bargaining chips before confronting the President-elect, who once called the Iran nuclear deal “one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history.”

The partners in the Leviathan natural gas field off Israel’s coast said on Thursday they signed a deal worth about $2 billion to supply gas to Dalia Power Engines.

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