by Lois Parshley | Jan 16, 2026 | AI, Billionaires, crypto, Denmark, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, Greenland, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Mining, Natural Gas, News Analysis, Oil, silicon valley, sovereignty
President Donald Trump started his second term with his sights set on Greenland. When Trump first proposed buying the Arctic nation during his first administration, it was treated like a joke. But in a subsequent phone call with Denmark’s prime minister, who controls the autonomous territory’s foreign policy, the president doubled down on his efforts to seize power. In the “aggressive and…
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by Derek Seidman | Jan 4, 2026 | AI, big tech, Chevron, Climate Crisis, data centers, electricity, Energy, Environmental Racism, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Halliburton, Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, Natural Gas, News, Renewable Energy, Trump Administration, utilities
“The demand for power and for AI is like nothing I’ve ever seen.” These words were uttered during an October earnings call, not by a wide-eyed tech executive, but by Jeff Miller, the CEO of Halliburton, one of the world’s biggest oilfield services corporations. Like droves of other companies tied to the fracked gas industry, Halliburton is pivoting toward servicing the data center boom…
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by Mike Ludwig | Dec 23, 2025 | Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gulf coast, LNG, Louisiana, Natural Gas, News, Trump Administration, utilities
Despite repeated promises from President Donald Trump on the campaign trail to lower the cost of energy, consumers in the United States collectively paid $12 billion more for natural gas to power their homes over the first nine months of 2025 — about $124 more per family — than they did a year earlier, according to a new report on federal data by the watchdog group Public Citizen.
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