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Pledging to make the Interior Department “a better neighbor in the new Trump administration,” Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a secretarial order (SO) on Thursday that calls for streamlining the permitting process for drilling on federal lands.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt said the members of a key scientific advisory panel he dismissed last week can reapply to the panel, and he believes that in some cases they could be reinstated.

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday calling for Congressional disapproval of a rule by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise its resource management planning process. The bill will now head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday calling for Congressional disapproval of a rule by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise its resource management planning process. The bill will now head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

EOG Resources Inc. is using a novel way to pull more oil from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, injecting natural gas into existing wells, which is boosting recovery at a lower price.

EOG Resources Inc. is using a novel way to pull more oil from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, injecting natural gas into existing wells, which is boosting recovery at a lower price.

A committee created earlier this year to advise the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on its regulation of the state’s conventional oil and gas drillers said it won’t support a package of rules for the industry that are expected to be implemented next year.

Researchers at Ohio University and their oil and gas industry collaborators have been awarded $1.45 million to advance a technology that could keep more production and flowback water at the drilling site instead of heading to contentious underground disposal wells.

With the advent of increased drilling on Montana’s portion of the Bakken Shale play and more importantly other wildcatting areas of the state, a new state program for temporary leasing of water rights has kicked off, anticipating added demand for water supplies to support hydraulic fracturing (fracking).