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Virginia’s leaders should instead look to a proven source of homegrown energy development that will create new jobs without jeopardizing current ones or contributing to our nation’s unsustainable thirst for climate-altering fossil fuels.[read more]

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Industry’s commitment to continually improving safety in deep-water operations is a moral obligation – to our workers, to the American people and to the environment. It’s also sound business.[read more]

BP Gulf oil spill

So, three years after the BP Gulf oil catastrophe, what has changed? Are government and industry leaders taking steps to reduce the risk of another destructive spill or blowout? The answers are decidedly mixed.[read more]

The troubles that roiled Shell’s rig, the Kulluk, off the coast of Alaska this past winter will reverberate through the summer; the oil company announced it would not seek to drill in U.S. Arctic waters in 2013.[read more]

The question is how can the United States become more energy self-sufficient and in the process help exert downward pressure on crude prices in the global market?[read more]

You might think rising gasoline prices at a time of flat demand and surging domestic oil production would convince Americans that we need to find alternatives to oil. But no. A new survey shows the public increasingly tilting toward doubling down on oil, on the apparent assumption that if the United States just produces even...[read more]

With the recent announcement of its intentions to set up exploratory offshore oil drilling operations in the Arctic, BP (NYSE: BP) is set to embark into uncharted and hostile waters. The British media outlet, The Independent reports that last Friday BP signed a contract with Russia state-owned oil company Rosneft to explore...[read more]

Like all Americans, I am sickened by the news coming from the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill is now 100 miles long and is moving toward the Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida coastlines. As I watch coverage of the devastation, I am reminded of another energy story from last week: the approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm in the...[read more]