http://www.theenergydaily.com Energy Portal en-us 2008 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:08:57 EST In a big win for a coalition of environmentalists and native hunters, a federal appeals court has ruled that the Interior Department erred in authorizing a Royal Dutch Shell plc affiliate to explore for oil in the Beaufort Sea for three years and ordered the... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1740.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service announced Wednesday plans to initiate oil and gas leasing 50 miles off the Virginia coast near the Chesapeake Bay, saying the agency will publish in the Federal Register today a notice of intent to... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1686.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST In remarks that environmentalists charged were a repudiation of Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s longstanding position in favor of mandatory greenhouse gas controls, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Wednesday that a... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1623.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Citing increasing agreement among Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the oil and natural gas industry’s number one issue, Red Cavaney, the retiring head of the American Petroleum Institute, said Tuesday he expects to see increased support from the... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1548.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT     In allegations that Democrats said dramatically illustrate the Bush administration’s coziness with the oil industry, an internal Interior Department probe made public Wednesday has found that Minerals Management Service employees... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1391.html Thu, 11 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT     Setting up another high-profile fight in the months-long partisan brawl on energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders said Tuesday they are readying compromise legislation for a vote on the House floor this week that... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1385.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT As lawmakers prepare to return to Washington this week to resume the summer’s heated debate on energy policy, the White House signaled Friday that President Bush wants Congress to enact legislation that extends expiring tax credits for renewable energy... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1370.html Mon, 8 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT After more than two years of tough negotiations that once appeared in danger of failing altogether, Chevron Canada Ltd. and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador late last month reached agreement on developing the Hebron drilling project off the eastern... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1354.html Wed, 3 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT     In what the Minerals Management Service acknowledges may be only the first of several corruption cases involving its employees, a former top official with the Interior Department agency last month pled guilty to creating a cushy government... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1337.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In a significant policy shift some 40 years after a disastrous oil spill washed 200,000 gallons of oil up on its glimmering beaches, officials in green-leaning Santa Barbara County voted Tuesday to reverse the county’s long-held policy limiting oil... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/offshore_drilling/1336.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT