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A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2.7 percent in 2015, thanks in large part to increased use of natural gas.

This week, at an event hosted by the Sierra Club-backed “Save the RGV from LNG” campaign, two anti-gas activists from Oregon and Maryland spoke about their efforts to halt U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Promoted as a way to “build a resistance” against the three planned LNG export terminals at the Port of Brownsville, the event is another example of out of state activists misleading local Texas communities to promote the anti-fossil fuel “Keep It In the Ground” agenda.

A new peer reviewed study from the University of Texas found that methane in well water from Parker County and Hood County is naturally occurring, and not a result of fracking in North Texas’ Barnett Shale. Notably, the Parker-Hood Cluster has been at the center of the debate on methane contamination from hydraulic fracturing for years, but this finding solidly puts to rest any activist claims that fracking was involved.

New data from the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA) shows that oil and natural gas development in Texas generated an astounding $9.4 billion in taxes and state royalties in 2016. That comes out to $26 million per day in state and local revenue, even as the industry suffered from a down market.

For months, opponents of the proposed ExxonMobil-SABIC ethylene plant in Portland, Tex., have tried every means possible to block the project, including spreading misinformation about the proposed facility and the 11,000 construction jobs it would create. Now, Portland Citizens United (PCU), the small group that opposes the project, has invited two environmental activists to come speak at an upcoming community meeting, which PCU has organized to attack ExxonMobil’s record and reputation. SOURCE: Gulf Coast Growth Ventures

New data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry are declining, potentially boosting efforts in Congress to repeal a rule targeting methane emissions on federal lands.

While protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, "environmentalists" brought heaps of trash to the region. Tarps, broken tents and other garbage now litter the North Dakota landscape at the Oceti Sakowin protest site. The protesters have since left, but local cleanup crews are stuck cleaning up the loads of frozen debris that could soon turn toxic. Some of the Dakota Access protesters have traveled to Texas to protest another pipeline, raising concerns about whether they’ll create the same mess here. We asked Texans how they felt about the issue and here are some of our favorite responses.

Dakota Access pipeline protesters left behind massive amounts of garbage when they left their camp site, and now sanitation crews are working frantically to prevent an environmental crisis.

Newly formed Texans for Natural Gas reflects growing base of support throughout Texas DALLAS, TEX. – North Texans for Natural Gas announced today that it is expanding its focus statewide, and will now be called Texans for Natural Gas. The change comes as the group’s online base of support has surged to over 220,000 members, and now includes significant membership in the Permian Basin, South Texas, and along the Gulf Coast.

This week President Donald Trump signed a series of Executive Orders that will revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, which had been stalled under President Obama. NBC reports that President Trump said during the signing, "From now we are going to start making pipelines in the United States."

Response to out-of-state protesters coming into Texas to oppose oil and gas Opportunity for pro-energy voices to fight back against anti-fossil fuel agenda

New report lifts curtain on who bankrolls anti-fracking activism in Texas Activists use deceptive advocacy like “local control” to mask radical “Keep It In the Ground” agenda

The fracking revolution boosts local economies by increasing average incomes, creating jobs, and raising local housing prices, according to a new study from the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (EPIC).

Five-year study finds no evidence that hydraulic fracturing has caused widespread pollution of groundwater.  

Natural gas power plants deliver the lowest-cost electricity for residents of North Texas, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin. The findings show that natural gas is also the most competitive option for the other major metro areas in the state, including Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso.

Bloomberg News   The biggest beneficiaries of OPEC's decision to shrink oil production will include its most implacable enemies: U.S. shale drillers. After a 2 1/2-year price war in which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries sought to starve shale explorers and other high-cost producers into submission, the group agreed Wednesday to curb output by 1.2 million barrels a day.

The Wolfcamp Shale formation in West Texas holds 20 billion barrels of recoverable oil, according to a new assessment from the United States Geological Survey.  The finding represents the “largest estimate of continuous oil” that the agency has ever assessed in the United States.

A national ban on fracking would eliminate nearly 15 million jobs all across the country, according to research published today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy (Energy 21). Texas would suffer a particularly severe blow, with job loss figures estimated as high as 1.5 million.

Methane emissions in several major Texas oil and gas fields are declining, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The news comes as the EPA is pursuing costly new methane regulations for oil and natural gas activities, which analysts have warned could wipe out many producers in Texas and all across the country.

    A new report from two environmental activist groups alleges oil and natural gas development is harming North Texas children, despite an abundance of data showing such claims are not true.

Over the last week, many organizations (from general news publications to anti-fracking groups) have mistakenly claimed the Science Advisory Board (SAB) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to alter the agency’s conclusion that fracking has not led to “widespread, systemic” impacts on drinking water.

A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects the United States will become a net exporter of natural gas by late 2017, as domestic production continues to increase. 

An air quality report from researchers at the University of North Texas (UNT) and funded by a local anti-energy group was not what its boosters claimed, according to new documents from the chief air regulator in Texas. 

At the end of May, the Dallas City Council’s Committee on Quality of Life & Environment passed a resolution calling for increased ozone regulation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The resolution then went to a full City Council vote at its June 15th meeting, where it easily passed. But is there more to this “clean air” resolution than meets the eye?

Development of the Barnett Shale in North Texas led to the fracking revolution in the United States.