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Energy and Communities: Highlighting Industry Core Values and Community Engagement
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Kate Lowery
Posted June 1, 2017
Today, API releases a new report that highlights the tangible ways our industry protects the safety and environment – as it also helps local communities. It’s an important document, reflecting the premium placed on responsible energy development by natural gas and oil companies. From the report:
The safety, health and protection of people, the environment and communities are the top priorities for the natural gas and oil industry. Today, natural gas and oil not only power our lives, but are the building blocks for so many of the products that make modern life possible. But this energy and the amazing things derived from it – everything from clothing and cosmetics to state-of-the-art health care devices and medicines – aren’t possible unless responsible development is the centerpiece of everything the industry does.
Strong Public Support for New England Infrastructure
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Sabrina Fang
Posted June 1, 2016
To create jobs, continue progress in reducing emissions and ensure America’s homes and manufacturers have access to affordable energy, energy infrastructure should be a top priority. Private businesses are ready to invest and workers are ready to build, now politicians need to get out of the way.
Lucky and Good – The U.S. Energy From Shale Revolution
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Reid Porter
Posted May 31, 2016
Politico has an interview out today with Iain Conn, chief executive of the British energy and services company Centrica. Let’s look at a couple of the points that he makes.
Choose Energy: ‘Let’s Put America Back to Work’
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Mark Green
Posted January 9, 2014
One of our new ads underscores the importance in this election year of choosing energy for America’s future:
America is blessed to have energy choices, thanks to vast shale reserves of oil and natural gas. Developing those reserves and others could create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030, according to Wood Mackenzie. The choice is ours on energy, jobs and policies that will make it happen.
For more information, check out ChooseEnergy.org.
Energy Yesterday and Tomorrow
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Mark Green
Posted December 30, 2013
As 2013 nears its end, noting some of the year's most popular Energy Tomorrow Blog posts:
Jobs = Job 1
PwC’s latest detailing of the economic impacts of oil and natural gas activity ranked the highest in readership. And why not: It’s a great story. PwC found that in 2011, the last year for which complete data is available, the industry recorded these key numbers:
- 9.8 million full- and part-time jobs supported, directly and indirectly.
- $1.2 trillion added to the economy, accounting for 8 percent of the national total.
- Nearly $600 billion contributed in associated labor income – including wages, salaries, benefits and proprietors’ income.
America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry: No Tricks, Just Treats
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Mary Schaper
Posted October 28, 2013
With colder weather creeping across the country, we think of the energy the U.S. oil and natural gas industry is providing for Americans’ lives, including heating homes and businesses. So when the Energy Department blog highlighted ways to “energize your neighborhood” with a series of energy-themed pumpkin stencils in time for Halloween – but didn’t include any for the sources of 62 percent of the energy Americans use – we thought maybe it was some kind of holiday trick.
Never fear, we've got the treats: Energy Tomorrow’s own pumpkin-carving stencils to fill in the gaps. "Energyween" anyone?
VIDEO: Fueling American Job Creation
Mark Green
Posted October 15, 2013
Fuel Fix.com has an article about a new report showing the U.S. oil and natural gas industry is simply booming in terms of job creation:
The U.S. oil and gas industry added new jobs faster than the total private sector during the year that ended in June, jumping 2.6 percent over the previous year and pushing the industry’s roster past 1 million jobs nationwide, according to a new report.
Our Promising Energy Present and Future
Mark Green
Posted September 4, 2013
Oil and Natural Gas: America's Growth Industry
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Mark Green
Posted August 14, 2013
Fairness, Job Creation, Energy Security…and a New Study
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Mary Schaper
Posted July 11, 2013
From time to time, a few politicians get the not-so-bright idea to try to repeal the tax deduction for intangible drilling cost (IDCs). A new study out today from Wood Mackenzie shows what would happen if this cost recovery measure was repealed effective January 1, 2014.
During a conference call with reporters, API’s director of tax and accounting policy Stephen Comstock noted that IDC expenses including wages, fuel, and hauling costs typically represent 70 to 90 percent of the cost of a completed well. Comstock: