Keith Schneider
Circle of Blue
Benzonia, MI, United States
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Innovation in Financing Brightens WASH Galaxy
Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider → Read More
Like Developing Nations, Texas Confronts Lingering Water Crisis
Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider → Read More
Border Wall Concerns in Lower Rio Grande Valley Diminished By Virus and Growth
Trump Administration Overrides Long-Standing Conservation Mission → Read More
West Virginia Bets Big on Plastics, and on Backing of Trump Administration
The state’s leaders want a federal loan guarantee to build a giant chemical storage plant that could cost as much as $10 billion. → Read More
How Governmental Failure Amplified the Devastation of California's Carr Fire
Every level of government understood the dangers of a potential fire in the region but took few, if any, of the steps needed to prevent catastrophe. → Read More
America’s Oil Boom Can Not Happen Without Groundwater
Risks are substantial in New Mexico’s Permian Basin. → Read More
Here's why New Mexico's oil boom is raising a lot of questions about water
New Mexico is now the country's third-leading oil producer. But tapping its full potential could put water supplies at risk. → Read More
The future of nuclear power? Think small
NuScale Power, an Oregon technology company, is at the head of the pack of a multitude of startup companies designing the next generation of nuclear reactors. It is steadily drawing closer to gaining a federal license to commercialize its small nuclear reactor that the government says is safe. → Read More
TransCanada says it has secured enough customers to proceed with Keystone XL pipeline
TransCanada said today that it has sufficient commitments from oil shippers to proceed with its Keystone XL pipeline across the Great Plains. It stopped short, though, of pushing a "go" button to build the $8 billion project. → Read More
Trump unites Democrats and Republicans — to oppose his offshore drilling plan
A week after the Trump administration provoked a political backlash with a plan to open the outer continental shelf to energy exploration, and two days after Florida was waived from the plan, coastal state lawmakers of both parties amplified their bipartisan opposition. → Read More
As Trump's fossil-fuel 'energy dominance' plan founders, a crucial solar energy decision nears – LA Times
The president's plan to bolster the fossil fuel sector and achieve "American energy dominance" ran aground this week on the rocks of economic irrelevance and political miscalculation. But a truly relevant decision on a tariff on imported solar panels is coming soon. → Read More
Trump plan to expand oil and gas leasing in West draws, for the most part, a big yawn from industry
With a March 2017 executive order to reduce restrictions and achieve "American energy dominance" President Trump set out to lease more of the West's public domain for oil and gas drilling. Except for a few oil-rich areas the effort has generated scant enthusiasm in the energy sector. → Read More
Trump has big plans for offshore oil development. But will it ever happen? – LA Times
It will take 10 to 20 years for any offshore drilling program to get started, and energy companies and finance markets anticipate that by then demand for oil will be much different. → Read More
Trump administration moves to expand oil and gas drilling off U.S. coasts – LA Times
The Trump administration is proposing a significant expansion in offshore oil drilling, removing protections for waters in the Arctic and Atlantic seas that had been set aside for protection by President Obama. → Read More
Trump called for a 'truly representative process' for managing public land. One already exists in Idaho – LA Times
In scrubbing two million acres from national monuments in Utah President Trump rebuked his predecessors for not consulting with neighboring communities and promised a "truly representative process" for managing public lands. Idaho is a good example of where that works and why the process is so hard → Read More
Trump administration proposes 3 new national monuments, more changes at existing ones – LA Times
The Interior Department, charged by President Trump to evaluate 27 national monuments, is altering land and management practices for public lands across the West. → Read More
In an unprecedented action, Trump dramatically shrinks two national monuments in Utah
President Trump formally reconfigured two big national monuments in southern Utah on Monday, shrinking them by more than 2 million acres and establishing five smaller units within them — a public lands declaration unlike any ever made by a U.S. chief executive. → Read More
In an unprecedented action, Trump dramatically shrinks two national monuments in Utah – LA Times
President Trump is announcing plans to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, responding to what he has condemned as a "massive federal land grab" by the government. → Read More
Watch live: President Trump to revoke national monument designations in Utah
President Trump, during an announcement at the Utah Capitol today, is expected to revoke two big national monuments in southern Utah a... → Read More
Senate tax measure helps President Trump pivot away from clean energy and back to fossil fuels
The House and Senate versions of the new tax bill contain important provisions to help the Trump administration's program of "American energy dominance." They would open the Arctic to oil development and weaken investment incentives for wind and solar development. → Read More