Energy Law mandates major boost in domestic onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration, particularly tight oil, shale oil, ...

North Dakota's fossil fuel industry has grown rapidly since the onset of the shale boom and extraction is now 4 percent of state employment. West Virginia, with a strong coal industry, benefits ...

Like the kerogen in oil shale, tar sands' bitumen can be upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Because developing fossil fuels from these resources is different and more intensive than traditional energy ...

like [carbon capture and storage] for coal and gas. With nothing more than regulatory policies of the type and stringency simulated here there is no market for these technologies, and the shale ...

After flagging for decades in the wake of the 1859 Drake oil strike and the subsequent development of an American petroleum industry, attention to Western oil shale resources revived as World War I ...

At the same time, West Virginia sits above the Marcellus Shale basin, which accounts for 95% of the state’s gas production. In 2019, the state produced more natural gas than coal, sending gas ...