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U.S. Natural Gas Infrastructure is Critical to Our Economic, Energy, Food and Climate Security
The Russia-driven global crisis of natural gas supplies is pushing the world toward a tipping point in economic, energy, food and climate security. Our vast natural gas and oil resources largely insulate Americans from these dangers, while creating the potential, through exports, to help reduce energy insecurity for our allies.
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Pipeline Opponents Driving America's Electric Bills Higher
A new wave of energy price hikes is now hitting consumers and businesses. This time it's in the form of higher electric bills. The culprits are the opponents of natural gas pipelines and the misguided regulatory policies that empower them. Until this changes, our electric bills will rival the cost of gasoline purchases.
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Energy Disinformation Attacks LNG Exports
Countering "disinformation" is the mission of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's newest bureau, targeting for deletion anything they regard as misleading and that threatens our national security. Yet a recently published piece of disinformation about LNG exports, appearing in a widely read inside-the-Beltway political journal, appears to have escaped the censors' notice. Since "an untruth unchallenged becomes the truth", EEIA is correcting the record.
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New FERC Policy Politicizes Pipeline Approvals
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has adopted new rules that require the Commission to consider a project's greenhouse gas impacts during construction, when in operations, and (much worse) when the natural gas it delivers is used or burned. That cost-benefit calculus will now be added to the Commission's traditional criteria of determining the market's need for the project, when it decides whether it is in the public interest and should be granted the certificate necessary for construction.
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LNG Exports Driving US Natural Gas Infrastructure
US exports of liquified natural gas are a rapidly growing driver of new American infrastructure investment. The reason: global energy shortages have caused demand and prices for LNG to skyrocket. This has put US LNG in an extremely favorable export position, because of our plentiful supplies and low cost of natural gas to feed our export terminals, relative to other producing and exporting countries.
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US Solar Panels Rely on Chinese Forced Labor and Coal
Two recent headlines commanded our attention: (1) "Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal" (Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2021), and (2) "In Broad Daylight: Uyghur Forced Labor and Global Solar Supply Chains" (Sheffield Hallam University, May 2021).
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Natural Gas and CO2 Pipelines Advance
This June has seen progress for natural gas and pipelines. Two proposed new natural gas lines gained FERC approval, a very big LNG project with an associated pipeline moved closer to final investment decision, and two major new carbon capture and CO2 pipeline projects moved forward.
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IEA's Wrong Path to Net-Zero
Two major new studies have been released recently by high-profile energy research groups. The International Energy Agency (IEA) report "Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" and Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) "Investing in the US Natural Gas Pipeline System to Support Net Zero Targets" separately addressed the role of natural gas, and its infrastructure, in a path to net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Supreme Court to Hear PennEast Pipeline Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review of PennEast Pipeline's appeal against an earlier ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that PennEast's developers could not use eminent domain to gain access to New Jersey state-owned land to build the pipeline.
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As Americans Suffer Blackouts, China Ramps Up Carbon Emissions
Hearing the messages of Green New Deal politicians in this election campaign, one might think that unless America forces its way to zero-emission electricity and all electric cars and buildings by 2035, Earth's climate will heat up past the point of no return. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is that unless China, India and other major emitters in Asia, Africa and Latin America also take serious action now to reduce CO2, anything we do to reduce carbon emissions here in America will do little to change the path of global climate change.
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California: Energy Trendsetter, or Canary in the Coal Mine?
Little more need be said about the folly of transitioning to renewable power without strong natural gas generation infrastructure, than this piece that appeared in Sunday's Financial Times:
Californians face dark, hot summer
as green energy is sapped
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EEIA Urges White House to Reform Infrastructure Permitting Process
In February 25 testimony, EEIA urged the White House Council on Environmental Quality to adopt new rules eliminating red tape and wasted time in granting permits for energy infrastructure projects.
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New CCUS Study Highlights Pipeline Network Needed
EEIA is leading efforts to assess the potential for widespread adoption of carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) to mitigate carbon emissions. Our key role is focused on CCUS's great potential both to drive new energy infrastructure construction, and to solidify the role of natural gas as a primary part of our energy mix. New CO2 pipelines will be needed.
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CO2 Pipelines - The Next Big Opportunity?
With increasing attention on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as a primary cause of climate change, there is growing interest in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) as a mitigating strategy. This would drive major expansions of the CO2 pipeline system - up to 50,000 miles potentially.
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Fracking Ban? Not a Pretty Picture
A ban on fracking has been proposed by leading candidates for President, the House and the Senate. So far none have defined what that might mean for Americans, our economy and our national security. Drawing from previously published data sources, we have compiled a picture of what a fracking ban might mean.
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Sneak Attack on Natural Gas Exports
Normally we wouldn't flag a newly introduced bill that has no chance of passage (at least in this Congress), but this one deserves attention if only because its sponsor is arguably the leading contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and its purpose would presumably become part of her Administration's policy agenda if elected.
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EEIA Leads Coalition for Permitting Reform
A broad coalition of labor and industry stakeholders has urged EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to adopt proposed new rules for permitting energy infrastructure projects under the Clean Water Act's Section 401 water quality certification provisions.
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Natural Gas and Pipelines Are on the Ballot
Elections are looming, and climate is the hottest subject on the debate agenda. Who wins what next fall will have a decisive impact on our industry's direction over the next decade.
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Why Our Climate Needs Pipelines
EEIA's Toby Mack remarks to the National Conference of State Legislators, Natural Gas Policy Institute on August 28, 2019, addressing the major climate benefits from natural gas for power generation.
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Bloomberg's Folly: Beyond Carbon
Michael Bloomberg announced he will spend $500 million to, among other things, stop the "headlong rush" to natural gas and stop building any new natural gas fired power plants and related infrastructure, including pipelines.
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Taking Stock of Opportunities In Energy Infrastructure
America's amazing oil and natural gas production growth, and the investment in related infrastructure this has driven, have exceeded anyone's imagination of just a few years ago. Take a few minutes to look at the big picture, consider its consequences to your business or your job, and recommit to helping ensure this bright future plays out.
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Bloomberg Spending $.5 Billion to Stop Natural Gas
At the MIT commencement ceremony June 7, Michael Bloomberg announced that his Bloomberg Philanthropies will spend $500 million on a Beyond Carbon campaign. The funds will be used to support politics and policy initiatives at the state and local levels aimed at stopping the addition of new natural gas power plants and closing all remaining coal-fired plants in the U.S.
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Climate Aspiration Meets Natural Gas Reality
It's becoming commonplace to read that a state or city has adopted aggressive goals to significantly reduce, if not entirely eliminate, its carbon footprint by some specified date over the next few decades. Dictates usually include a phase-in timeline, for example reduction of 30% by year X, 60% by year Y, and 100% by year Z.
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A Tale of Two Countries - CO2 Emissions
Most people believe that our climate is changing, and that greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from burning fossil fuels are contributing to the change. Within hours, greenhouse gasses emitted from anywhere on the planet become part of our global atmosphere. So fighting climate change means all countries must reduce CO2 emissions. The US is leading the world in reducing CO2 emissions. But progress here at home, while important, will barely move the needle to solve the global problem.
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Equipment Company Leader Speaks Out for Pipelines
In some parts of our country, it often seems like there is a relentless drumbeat of negative media bias against natural gas and the infrastructure needed to bring this plentiful, affordable and clean fuel from the well to the consumer. It's an old adage that any assertion (no matter how unfounded) that remains unchallenged becomes true in the public's mind.
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The Real Story of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In our work to counter the misguided goals and flawed logic of the extremist wing of the climate debate, including the "Green New Deal" advocates, we have emphasized four facts: (1) increased use of natural gas is essential to reducing carbon emissions; (2) the United States leads the world in reducing CO2 emissions thanks to migration of electricity generation to natural gas and renewables; (3) the biggest greenhouse gas emitters are other countries, especially China and India; and (4) global climate will benefit greatly from exported US natural gas, requiring added production, midstream and export infrastructure.
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CONFIRMED: Russians Stoking Pipeline Opposition
Breaking news: House Science Committee confirms in a newly-released report what we've long suspected: Russian agents have been operating a campaign to stoke opposition to American pipelines and shale energy production.
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EEIA-Led Coalition Urges House to Pass Bill to Lift Export Ban
In a letter to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, EEIA was joined by twenty-four other supply chain trade organizations in urging representatives to vote in favor of H.R. 702, a bill lifting the ban on U.S. crude oil exports.
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Boston Globe Decries Russian LNG in Boston Harbor - Cites Lack of Pipelines
We were surprised and pleased to see a February 13, 2018 piece by the Boston Globe's editorial board, decrying the importation of liquified natural gas from Russia into the Everett LNG Import Terminal near Boston's Logan Airport, and the ill-conceived policies and biases that led to it.
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New England Paying a High Price for Cuomo's Pipeline Blockade
As winter temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast dip into Polar Vortex territory - single digits and below - most of the country is enjoying cheap, reliable and plentiful supplies of clean-burning natural gas to heat and electrify their homes and power their workplaces.
But not so Boston and surrounding areas of New England, whose citizens are on the receiving end of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's crusade against new pipelines through his state that would supply Marcellus natural gas to the energy-starved region. His Boston victims' gas bills this week were an astounding 1,000% higher than most of the rest of the country.
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EEIA Leads Multi-Stakeholder Effort to Press Senate on FERC Confirmations
WASHINGTON - The Energy and Equipment Infrastructure Alliance (EEIA), which is leading an effort to urge the Senate to confirm nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), today delivered a letter to Senate Leadership signed by a diverse group of 25 associations and unions who want the Senate to vote as early as possible on FERC confirmations. Citing job loss, economic stagnation, and lack of progress on existing pipelines which have cleared FERC staff review and now only require a final FERC vote of approval, the groups implored Senate leaders to make confirmations a high priority.
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EEIA Sends Open Letter to U.S. Bank Objecting to the Bank's Anti-pipeline Policy
EEIA sent an open letter to Officers, Directors and Shareholders of USBancorp and U. S. Bank calling on the institution to reverse its new discriminatory anti-pipeline policy.
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EEIA Welcomes New Member ACEC
EEIA welcomes the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) as the newest member of the EEIA Association Council. ACEC is a federation of 52 state and regional councils representing more than 600,000 engineers, architects, land surveyors and other specialists. Its primary mission is to strengthen the business environment for member firms through government advocacy, political action, and business education.
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EEIA Urges FERC to Approve Atlantic Coast Pipeline
In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, EEIA urged the Commission to approve the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 550-mile natural gas pipeline bringing Marcellus and Utica gas from West Virginia to markets in Virginia and North Carolina. The project will be built by Dominion at an investment of over $5 billion, and is slated for beginning construction in late 2017.
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US State Dept Urged to Issue Line 67 Permit
In a recent letter to the US State Department, EEIA has urged the issuance of a Presidential Permit for Enbridge's "Alberta Clipper" Line 67 Expansion project, which would bring Alberta crude oil to terminal facilities in Superior, Wisconsin. The permit is required for the pipeline to cross the US-Canada Border at a point in northeastern North Dakota.
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EEIA to President Trump: Appoint FERC Commissioners ASAP
Since the resignation of Commissioner Norman Bay on February 3, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has had only two sitting Commissioners, short of the statutorily necessary three for the quorum needed to approve construction of natural gas infrastructure including new pipelines. This has delayed construction of as much as $15 billion of proposed new projects.
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EEIA Urges Completion of Dakota Access Pipeline
In a letter to President Obama October 5, the Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance (EEIA) objected to the Administration's recent suspension of construction work on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile crude oil pipeline from the Bakken shale formation of North Dakota to a refinery hub in Illinois. The letter was co-signed by eighteen national trade associations and labor unions representing businesses and workers that build and supply energy infrastructure.
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EEIA Launches Pipeline Support Network
The Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance (EEIA) today announced the formation of a special action group to engage the supply chain to work for regulatory approval of pipelines and other major energy infrastructure projects.
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Senate Passes Energy Bill
The Senate has approved the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 by a strong bi-partisan majority (85 - 12).
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Scientists attribute rising methane levels to agriculture, not fossil fuels
An important study on methane emissions was recently published in the journal Science which rules out fossil fuels as the major cause in the rise of methane levels in the atmosphere since 2007.
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Obama Oil Tax Proposal to Cost Jobs, Raise Energy Prices
President Obama escalated his campaign against American consumers' access to affordable energy, with plans recently announced for a new $10 per barrel tax on oil, included in his proposed 2017 budget sent to Congress.
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EEIA, Supply Chain Allies Urge Congress to Adopt Common-sense Energy Policies
In an EEIA-coordinated letter to the Senate and House, leading energy supply chain associations and labor unions urged Congress to remove roadblocks to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and permitting of energy infrastructure projects, and eliminate other regulations that restrict energy production without improving safety or the environment.
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EEIA Publishes Landmark Report: Supplying the Unconventional Revolution
More than 233,000 new American jobs will be created between 2012 and 2025 with firms supplying goods and services to companies producing oil and gas from shale, according to a new report released today by IHS Global, Inc. The new jobs are in addition to 524,000 current shale energy supply chain jobs, bringing the total to over 757,000 jobs by 2025, for a growth of over 44 percent.
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EEIA Applauds the End of the Ban on Crude Oil Exports
Hundreds of thousands of energy supply chain workers and their families saw their futures brighten when Congress passed and the President signed year-end legislation repealing the 40-year old ban on exports of American crude oil.
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House Passes Bill to Lift the Crude Oil Export Ban
The House of Representatives on Friday approved one of EEIA's top priorities: legislation to end the ban on US crude oil exports. The bill (H.R. 702) was passed by a substantial bipartisan majority of 261 to 159.
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EEIA is pleased to welcome CEMEX as our newest member company.
CEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities in more than 50 countries throughout the world. Its U.S. network includes 13 cement plants, 46 strategically located distribution terminals, 74 aggregate quarries and more than 350 ready-mix concrete plants.
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EEIA Welcomes New Member Targa Resources
EEIA is pleased to welcome Targa Resources as our newest member company. Targa Resources is a provider of midstream services and is one of the largest independent midstream energy companies in North America.
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EEIA Welcomes New Member NAHAD
EEIA is pleased to welcome NAHAD The Association for Hose and Accessories Distribution, as our newest Association Council member.
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EEIA member Dale Leppo tells House Small Biz Committee of jobs lost to crude oil export ban
As many as 440,000 new jobs will be created by suppliers to shale oil and gas operations nationally by 2018 if the ban on US exports of crude oil were lifted this year, according to testimony by EEIA member Dale Leppo of Leppo Group Inc. to the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee Wednesday.
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EEIA, 24 Trade Associations and Unions Urge Congress to Lift the Ban
EEIA, in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on behalf of twenty-two national trade associations and two major labor unions, urged action on HR 702, a bill to lift the ban on crude oil exports.
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Energy Supply Chain Organizations Urge Lifting Crude Export Ban
Lifting the ban on U.S. crude oil exports would add up to 440,000 new energy supply chain jobs and $64 billion of additional GDP to the U.S. economy by 2018, according to a June 3 letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The letter was signed by twenty national supply chain trade associations and one labor union.
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EEIA Briefs House Staffers on Benefits of Crude Exports
EEIA's Toby Mack joined a panel of industry and research experts to brief House of Representatives staffers on the powerful job creation and economic output potential in the supply chain if the crude oil export ban were lifted. The briefing was sponsored by the House Small Business Committee. Also on the panel were Charles Ebinger of the Brookings Institution, Marianne Kah, Chief Economics of ConocoPhillips, and Jay Hauck of the CRUDE Coaliton. As a result of the briefing, the full House Small Business Committee will hold a hearing on the impact of lifting the ban on small business. EEIA member Dale Leppo, Chairman of Leppo Inc. of Talmadge Ohio will testify for EEIA.
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EEIA Urges House to Lift the Export Ban
EEIA urges bi-partisan House support of H.R. 702 to repeal the obsolete ban on crude oil exports. Repealing the ban will save and create hundreds of thousands of American jobs in the energy supply chain throughout the country.
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Energy Veteran Bud Albright Joins EEIA Team
Energy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance (EEIA) President Toby Mack announced today that the Honorable Bud Albright, former Undersecretary of Energy and now Principal at DC-based Ogilvy Government Relations, has joined the EEIA team as outside counsel.
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IHS Study: Lifting the Ban Boosts Business
A new EEIA-cosponsored economic study by IHS finds that lifting the ban on crude oil exports would add up to 2 million barrels per day of new U.S. production. This would create up to $50 billion in new business annually and add up to 250,000 jobs for suppliers of construction, construction equipment, materials and services to energy operations.
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