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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Jul 25, 2022

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is contemplating ways to starve the Russian economy of revenues, the bulk of which come from Russian oil and energy exports.

As part of that effort, the US Treasury Department has been lobbying European and Asian leaders to support a price cap...


Jul 18, 2022

US President Joe Biden just wrapped up a trip to the Middle East with a closely watched visit to Saudi Arabia. His national security director signaled that the success of his oil diplomacy will be judged in the coming weeks, not immediately.

So will OPEC+ agree to increase production at its Aug. 3 meeting to help ease...


Jul 11, 2022

The International Energy Agency, in its road map for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, set a near-term target for the deployment of carbon capture capacity at 1.7 billion metric tons by 2030, a level that is more than 40 times the global capacity in 2021. The most significant action the US has taken towards...