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October 15, 2025
Trump administration fulfills 80% of industry wish list in first 8 months

Most of the requests in a letter from 100 manufacturing groups submitted to the incoming Trump administration late last year have been granted, according to reporting by The New Lede.

October 15, 2025
ChatGPT developer’s energy chief touted natural gas for Trump admin

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI, which requires massive amounts of energy for its data centers, has hired an official from President Donald Trump’s first administration who championed natural gas.

October 15, 2025
Louisiana governor halts new applications for carbon capture projects

Responding to public pressure, Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a moratorium on new applications for wells meant to store carbon dioxide from industry.

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Brendan Gibbons
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October 9, 2025

The oil and gas industry keeps laying off workers as Trump pushes 'drill, baby, drill!'

The record-high oil and gas production that President Donald Trump inherited when he took office has not translated to more jobs in the industry. Major oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP, are all laying off workers amid a decade-long trend of declining industry employment. Industry leaders and analysts attribute the job losses to a combination of persistently low oil and gas prices; higher supply costs, in part due to Trump’s tariffs; and consolidation in the industry, with company mergers leading to eliminating redundant positions.

Ari Phillips
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October 2, 2025

Deep blue California ‘panics’ about refinery closures by allowing more drilling

As recently as a few years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was calling on the state to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas by 2024 and to consider phasing out all oil production statewide by 2045. Newsom has since pivoted to support a six-bill package of energy and climate legislation, including a bill that allows oil-rich Kern County, north of Los Angeles, to issue 2,000 new drilling permits a year without further environmental review for the next decade.

Brendan Gibbons
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September 25, 2025

Data show U.S. has no energy ‘emergency,’ despite Trump order directing agencies to fast-track fossil fuels

Despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, the White House issued orders on Jan. 20 claiming that the country has “insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation” and that it is “in the national interest to unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy.” In reality, the U.S. does not have an energy emergency, with the country's energy production and exports reaching record highs.

Brendan Gibbons
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September 18, 2025

Texas company plans massive power plants to fuel 'intelligence campus' named after Trump

In the panhandle of Texas, a company is planning to build a massive gas-fired power plant and four nuclear reactors to supply energy for a data center complex – all dubbed the “President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus.” The project joins a wave of companies proposing new gas-fired power plants in Texas and across the U.S.,

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