
Ben Lefebvre
Energy Reporter at POLITICO
Politico energy reporter. Native Detroiter, former WSJ Houston and ICIS Tokyo. I didn't pay for this checkmark.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Ben Lefebvre
The removal of Mike Nedd, BLM’s deputy director for administration and programs, is the latest upheaval in personnel at the agency that is critical for oil and gas production. Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director Mike Nedd during Tuesday's House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on oil and gas development.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Ben Lefebvre
DOGE-driven staff cuts inside the Interior Department have set off a turf battle over how to deploy personnel at the Bureau of Land Management — raising concerns the vacancies would undermine President Donald Trump's promise to boost domestic fossil fuel and minerals production.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Ben Lefebvre
The dynamic is yet another example of how external forces, including the Saudis’ commanding role in the world’s oil markets, continue to complicate Trump’s frequent calls for a new American “golden age.” Trump’s current stance on energy appears to confirm what U.S. oil executives have been fearing: If caught between higher production and low prices, he’ll pick the latter, said Bob McNally, founder and president of the consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group and a former energy adviser to...
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Ben Lefebvre
President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of U.S. “energy dominance” is running into a flood of OPEC crude oil — a surge of fuel production pushed by the Saudi leaders greeting him during his Mideast trip this week. But don’t expect Trump to complain about the cartel’s plan to raise output by nearly a million barrels per day in June, according to three people familiar with the trip who were granted anonymity to describe private discussions.
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1 month ago |
subscriber.politicopro.com | Ben Lefebvre
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