Safe, environmentally sound practice part of the energy solution WASHINGTON – America’s shale gas resources can play a critical role in securing America’s energy future, members of a key Energy and Commerce subcommittee heard today — but only if the technology needed to produce those resources remains intact and under the regulatory oversight of the [...]

Frigid weather across the United States has resulted in a recent increase in demand for heating fuels. Not too long ago, Americans thought that they would be in need of greater natural-gas imports from Canada, the Middle East, and other areas to meet increasing demand, inasmuch as natural gas is the main heating fuel in [...]

IER Prez: “No Administration In History Has Done More to Ensure Producers Do Less” WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Interior secretary Ken Salazar outlined a series of changes to federal leasing rules aimed at making it more difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to explore for and produce abundant reserves of American energy on federal, taxpayer-owned land. Subsequent [...]

Why is President Obama still keeping these resources under lock and key? Washington, DC – Today, Rasmussen Reports released a poll finding that nearly 70 percent of Americans support responsible offshore energy exploration and production. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement: “The American public understand full-well that [...]

Around the world, China is investing in oil and gas resources to fuel its booming manufacturing industries and transportation sector to continue its sky-rocketing economic growth. China is not endowed with very much oil and gas resources of its own. Thus, it needs to partner with countries around the world to ensure availability of future [...]

Responsible offshore energy exploration could create good-paying jobs, provide $70 billion in annual wages Washington, DC – Tomorrow, President Obama, business and labor leaders, academics and other elected officials will gather at the White House for a jobs summit. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued the following statement on [...]

CONTACT: Laura Henderson (202) 621-2947 Patrick Creighton (202) 621-2951 IER sets the record straight on Obama Admin energy leasing program Washington, DC – Yesterday afternoon Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar held a press conference to defend the Administration’s energy leasing program and to announce the 2010 onshore leasing schedule. The Institute for Energy Research [...]

Obama Administration’s first year in office worst on record for homegrown energy development Washington, DC – Earlier today, the Interior Department announced that new energy development leases on certain federal lands will be considered in 2010. While Secretary Salazar says that “oil, gas and coal will continue to play an important role in our energy mix,” [...]

Obama Administration Breaks (non) Leasing Records, Presents a Clear and Present Danger To U.S. Energy Security “Oil and natural gas are, and will remain for many years to come, a cornerstone of our nation’s energy base.” -Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, March 19, 2009. The Department of Interior recently issued a press release that stated, “Since [...]

Senate panel examines on offshore environmental stewardship; Should focus on unlocking job-creating homegrown energy Washington, DC – Offshore energy exploration and production in the United States is safe and environmentally sound. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. oil and gas industry has developed innovative, 21st century technologies and exploration techniques that are efficient, pose [...]