A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.  More »

The Energy Department is sifting through some 200,000 public comments as it prepares to issue verdicts on energy companies’ applications to broadly export natural gas, a top Obama administration official said Thursday.  More »

If pipeline insulation can’t be sexy, it might as well be simple.  More »

Fluor Corp. will engineer and construct several new Dow Chemical Company facilities in Freeport, Texas, as part of Dow’s $4 billion expansion there.  More »

The mother and son of a Friendswood man who died after being burned in an explosion at a Dow Chemical Co. plant in Deer Park last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the chemical manufacturer, a subsidiary and two employees.  More »

John Rafuse, a former energy advisor to the Nixon White House, criticizes Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris for publicly opposing expanded exports of U.S. natural gas, while his company remains partial owner of a Texas project seeking to ship liquefied natural gas overseas.  More »

The Houston area had more corporate expansion projects last year than any other large city in the country, according to a new report from Site Selection magazine.  More »

In his February 1 article on Reason.com, Ron Bailey writes, “To the extent we live in a ‘post-truth’ era” lobbying policy-makers “is in good measure because it pays so well to dissemble, exaggerate, and spin for government grants and favors.”  If he had written that today, he might have been referring a recent Wall Street Journal opinion [...]  More »

Senators grappled with the thorny issue of natural gas exports on Tuesday, as even self-proclaimed free-market enthusiasts questioned whether some federal limits are needed to constrain U.S. prices and give a boost to domestic manufacturing.  More »

The newly refashioned Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to hold its inaugural hearing Tuesday on exporting more of America’s natural gas bounty, chaired by Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who is skeptical of existing laws on the issue.  More »

Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed analysts’ estimates as sales fell in Europe and Chinese growth slowed.  More »

Widening the rift over exports of U.S. natural gas, Huntsman Corp. has joined a coalition campaigning against more foreign sales of the fossil fuel. The move follows Dow Chemical’s decision to break ties with the National Association of Manufacturers over the dispute.  More »