The study recommends an immediate return to the Obama Administration’s approach paired with a more appropriate discount rate that together would produce a social cost of $125 per ton of...
In recent years, shale oil and gas industry observers have noticed a trend: Companies are drilling unprofitable wells simply to keep up contracts with landowners. A new analysis looks at...
Undergrad Eugene Han spent his summer taking an in-depth look into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the regulations that it spurred, and the recent roll-back of those regulations.
Landowner revenue and industry output would increase by hundreds of millions of dollars if private mineral leases were allotted via open, transparent auctions.
New research shows that existing wells do not increase production in response to price spikes. New oil requires drilling and well completions, which take money and time.
Infants born within about 2 miles of a fracking site are more likely to be classified as low birth weight, but there is no evidence of compromised infant health at...
The availability of flexible rail transport for crude oil may prevent shippers from making long-term commitments to pipelines, but environmental or safety policies that increase the cost of rail could...
