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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Nov 30, 2020

The presidential election is over, and the results are being certified. President Donald Trump may keep contesting votes in court, but we’re expecting the beginning of the Biden administration come January.

Today we look at the state of the midstream oil sector amid an ongoing pandemic and an upcoming Democratic White...


Nov 20, 2020

California and its clean car ambitions had a lot riding on the US presidential election.

The state's Air Resources Board spent the Trump presidency fighting with the US Environmental Protection Agency about its rollback of Obama-era tailpipe standards, which were set to increase average fuel economy of the US passenger...


Nov 13, 2020

The US oil and gas sector is facing several huge transitions all at once: the immediate crisis brought on by the pandemic and a longer-term energy transition away from fossil fuels.

Today we're looking at a third shift confronting the US upstream: digital transformation and the need for the oil and gas workforce to...


Nov 7, 2020

Joe Biden is now officially president-elect after securing a win in natural gas-rich Pennsylvania despite the fight over fracking we've heard so much about these last long weeks.

S&P Global Platts Analytics predicts a muted production impact if Biden bans new federal drilling permits, putting up to 1.1 million b/d of...