The U.S. Geological Survey’s public shift away from climate change science and toward energy and mineral development during the Trump administration can be measured by press releases as well as by ...

In a statement posted on its website recently, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the release of a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment “identifying significant undiscovered, ...

The USGS reported a lithium discovery the size of nine times the global lithium demand by 2030. The U.S. relies on imports for more than 25% of its lithium. The deposits are mostly concentrated in one ...

The Trump administration is seeking to zero out federal funding on the environmental effects of oil and gas development. The Trump administration is seeking to zero out federal funding on the ...

Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing sectors of renewable energy in the United States. About 3% of the total electricity in the United States was generated by wind turbines in 2012 (according to ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA are teaming up to map portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah for critical mineral potential. The $16 million, 5-year, ...

The US Department of the Interior reported that the Wolfcamp shale and overlying Bone Spring formation in the Delaware basin portion of Texas and New Mexico’s Permian basin province contain an ...

Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association, released the ...

A recently published study of geothermal energy sources on Akutan Island indicate the resource holds significantly more potential than previously thought. The U.S. Geological Survey published the ...

Hey, guess what? There's a bunch of natural gas out there along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast! That's what the US Geological Survey (USGS) announced on April 13, with its assessment that the ...

Estimates include 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in Texas and New Mexico's Wolfcamp Shale and Bone Spring Formation ...