Archive for the ‘Washington Pulse’ Category
Indigenous groups eye Trans Mountain stake
April 9th, 2019 by Latest News
An indigenous coalition is forming in Canada with the aim of buying a controlling interest in the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project between Alberta and British Columbia from the federal government.
US President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he canceled his immediate predecessor’s withdrawals of three federal offshore areas from oil and gas leasing consideration toward the end of his second term, a federal court judge in Alaska ruled…
US President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he canceled his immediate predecessor’s withdrawals of three federal offshore areas from oil and gas leasing consideration toward the end of his second term, a federal court judge in Alaska ruled…
Preserving coastal US states and communities’ vibrant recreation and commercial fishing economies is more important than increasing US offshore oil and gas exploration and development, sponsors of three bills and witnesses told a House Natural Resource…
Preserving coastal US states and communities’ vibrant recreation and commercial fishing economies is more important than increasing US offshore oil and gas exploration and development, sponsors of three bills and witnesses told a House Natural Resource…
Russia in Venezuela
April 9th, 2019 by Latest News
Arrival in Venezuela late last month of 100 or so Russian military personnel elicited tough talk from the administration of US president Donald Trump. “Russia’s got to leave Venezuela,” declared Sec. of State Mike Pompeo.
Russia in Venezuela
April 9th, 2019 by Latest News
Arrival in Venezuela late last month of 100 or so Russian military personnel elicited tough talk from the administration of US president Donald Trump. “Russia’s got to leave Venezuela,” declared Sec. of State Mike Pompeo.
Calling the Green New Deal to an early vote a day earlier showed that Democrats were not ready to go on record supporting the idea, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a Mar. 27 floor speech. Forty-three Senate Democrats and Indep…
US sanctions will be necessary to stop construction of the proposed Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, speakers indicated at a Mar. 12 Jamestown Foundation (JF) event.
A federal judge ruled that the US Bureau of Land Management did not adequately consider potential climate impacts when it issued oil and gas leases in Wyoming in 2015 and 2016, remanded the leases to the US Department of the Interior agency, and ordere…