Oil Slides To Two-Week Low As Market Dips

The global market plunge has affected nearly every equity, making oil no different. Thus oil has reached its lowest price point in over two months. Bloomberg Market reports, “Crude futures in New York fell a third day, sliding as much as 1.6 percent”. They continued by sharing, “‘Oil prices could not escape the risk-off mood …

Russia: Limiting Oil Supplies To North Korea Considered Act Of War

President Donald Trump has vowed to continually limit the supply of oil and petroleum products to North Korea. This comes as an attempt to limit North Korean developments of nuclear weapons. An article by Reuters reported, “North Korea on Saturday condemned the latest U.S. sanctions. and Russian deputy foreign minister Igor Morgulov said Russia had …

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board May Soon Be Obsolete

The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation board as one of the many agencies they hope to rid of under the $4.1 trillion full-year budget. The administration is experiencing some push back especially after last week’s explosion in Quinton, Oklahoma where five workers lost their lives. As reported by …

Fuel-Efficiency Standards: California Has To Compromise

State leaders of California have pushed against the Trump administration on a number of issues: taxes, climate change, and immigration. These same leaders can now add environmental regulations to their list. The Washington Examiner has said, “California, which can set its own fuel efficiency standards, has fought the Environmental Protection Agency over the proposed weakening …