David Blackmon

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Blackmon

Operating overseas can often elevated levels of risk for U.S. companies, and nowhere is this more a reality than for those in the oil and gas industry. From the EU to South America to Africa, U.S. often companies find themselves ripe targets for special actions from national and regional governments seeking onerous operational and reporting regulations and measures designed to extract a higher share of the proceeds from this extractive industry.

1 week ago | dailycaller.com | David Blackmon

Congressional Republicans are mounting a push to include permitting reform language in the final version of a budget reconciliation bill currently under consideration. Reforming the bloated environmental review processes within the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is taking top priority. For too long, NEPA’s bloated review process has shackled critical infrastructure projects for all sources of energy – stranding jobs, spiking costs, and undermining energy security.

1 week ago | todayville.com | David Blackmon

By Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told reporters Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s goal was to have major trading partners agree to negotiate after Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for many countries after dozens reached out to the administration. Trump announced the pause via a Wednesday post on Truth Social that also announced substantial increases in tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States, saying 75 countries had asked to talk.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | David Blackmon

In the race to decarbonize the global economy hasn’t ended yet, although it seems on somewhat shaky ground these days. Assuming the race continues, hydrogen has emerged as one of the linchpins for progress — a versatile, low-carbon fuel poised to transform industries from steelmaking to shipping. Not surprisingly, natural gas, increasingly the workhorse of today’s energy system, is the key to unlocking America’s leadership in the hydrogen sector.

2 weeks ago | dailycaller.com | David Blackmon

As recent studies project a big rise in power generation demand from the big datacenters that are proliferating around the United States, the big question continues to focus in on what forms of generation will rise to meet the new demand. Most datacenters have plans to initially interconnect into local power grids, but the sheer magnitude of their energy needs threatens to outstrip the ability of grid managers to expand supply fast enough.