API did not say how big a carbon tax should be. Many of its members have long used $40 a ton as an internal price to judge the viability of their projects, but economists specializing in climate change have warned that a price two or three times as large would […]
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Interior OKs expanded oil activity in Alaska petroleum reserve
The Trump administration has finalized its plans to expand drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), upsetting environmentalists by creeping toward protected territory within the reserve. The approval of the Willow Project allows ConocoPhillips to produce up to 590 million total barrels of oil over the next 30 […]