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A top environmentalist group is urging former Vice President Joe Biden to cancel a high-profile Wall Street fundraiser hosted by a fossil fuel executive.

California Public Utilities Commission has pushed to eliminate natural gas appliances as part of Democrats’ initiative to reduce carbon emissions. This could impoverish already struggling Californians by raising the cost of housing by thousands of dollars.

“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!”

TEHRAN, Iran — As the U.S. piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it’s the average person who feels it the most.

President Donald Trump celebrated the economic success of the energy boom taking place under his administration on Tuesday, mocking Democrats for endorsing the “Green New Deal” that would endanger energy jobs.

As rockets from the Gaza Strip continued to batter the south of the country Sunday, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz ordered the Tamar offshore natural gas field closed and put the country’s energy infrastructure into an emergency mode.

Record natural gas production in the U.S. led to the first-ever forum between the U.S. and European Union energy sectors to connect the two markets.

Brigham McCown, an expert on infrastructure, told Breitbart News Sunday that pipeline protesters are hurting the environment and consumers.

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.

President Donald Trump lauded the “revolution in American energy” under his administration in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

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.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday the Permian Basin’s Wolfcamp shale and Bone Spring formation spanning parts of West Texas and eastern New Mexico hold the largest potential oil and gas resources ever discovered. Federal surveyors note the Bone Spring plays could offer roughly seven times the amount of oil as the Bakken shale in North Dakota.

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.