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.