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Energy and Climate Issues During the Trump Administration’s First 100 Days
President Donald Trump has made energy a clear focus for his second term in the White House. Having campaigned on an “America First” platform that highlighted domestic fossil-fuel growth, the reversal of climate policies and clean energy incentives advanced by the Biden administration, and substantial tariffs on key US trading partners, he declared an “energy emergency” on his first day in office.
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Trump’s Quick Start on Energy
Last week, President Trump wasted no time in making good on a long list of energy-related campaign promises. Declaring a national energy emergency, he issued executive orders that...
Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
• January 28, 2025
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Can AI Help Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases?
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs for a special webinar "Can AI Help Reduce Emissions of...
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As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China.
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Venture Global entre en bourse, un symbole des grands espoirs placés dans le GNL aux Etats-Unis
Le champion américain du gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL) Venture Global doit entrer sur la bourse de New York. Cette opération, énorme,...-Energie
Trump order to fast-track LNG exports called ‘political theater’
In a flurry of Inauguration Day actions to promote his “drill, baby, drill” agenda, President Trump issued an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency.” He also directed the Department of Energy to restart reviews of permits for the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) “as expeditiously as possible.” But experts say there is no factual basis for Trump’s “national energy emergency,” with the amount of oil and gas produced in the U.S. soaring to record-breaking volumes during the Biden Administration. And Presidential orders do not direct the actions of FERC, an independent federal agency that reviews LNG terminals.
EU sanctions on Russian LNG may risk supply – analysts
European gas supply remained “tight”, warned Anne-Sophie Corbeau, global research scholar at the Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. “Gas stocks are within the five-year average, but we are not in the same situation as last year,” she said, pointing to the loss of 15bcm of gas since the expiry of the
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The U.S. Should Not Politicize LNG Exports
Can U.S. gas exports throw a lifeline to Europe without raising prices at home?
Curtailing Fugitive Methane Emissions Amid a Potential US Regulatory Rollback
Fugitive methane emissions from the energy sector have become frontpage news over the last five years. Both the US and EU have developed legislative strategies to combat methane...
Donald Trump’s mixed signals for gas market
Incoming administration’s policies might eventually lead to decrease in US LNG exports to EU
