America’s Natural Gas Alliance is going back on the airwaves next week with a consumer-driven campaign that challenges viewers to think about their own energy use. Marty Durbin, the group’s new president and CEO, said the campaign aims to get people to think about their energy choices and the role natural gas plays as a fuel for the U.S.  More »

The oil and gas industry’s biggest trade group is launching two new commercials, billed as “unscripted,” man-on-the-street style interviews with real people who argue that average Americans will be negatively impacted by higher taxes on the oil industry. Watch the commercials here.  More »

Apparently, it’s lonely at the top. “It’s not easy being us,” said Exxon Mobil’s top lobbyist today after he was asked about a critical ad campaign and a push to strip universities of their fossil fuel investments.  More »

The oil industry is fighting plans to repeal some of its tax breaks with a new advertising campaign that links the proposals with higher gasoline prices. The move comes ahead of a showdown Senate vote on the issue Monday.  More »

New video ads by the Houston-based Consumer Energy Alliance feature workers who say their businesses have been hurt by slow permitting for Gulf of Mexico drilling.  More »

The American Petroleum Institute’s “Keys to the Future” campaign is a bid to boost support for domestic oil production and for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver Canadian tar sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries.  More »