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    Amanda Chu

    US energy reporter

    Amanda Chu covers US energy at the Financial Times. She is based in New York and joined the FT as an editorial intern in 2021. She graduated from Georgetown University.
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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Biden administration plans record-low number of offshore drilling leases

      Five-year plan offers drastic reduction compared with Trump-era proposal despite industry lobbying

      2 hours ago
      A drilling derrick on a BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      News in-depthWind power
      Jersey Shore mobilises against offshore wind power

      Pushback from coastal residents adds to economic pressures for nascent US industry

      A fisherman unloads fish in New Jersey
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      InterviewEU energy
      Top EU energy official says US gas will be needed for decades

      Bloc will have a ‘need for American energy’ says Ditte Juul Jørgensen

      Workers at the Cheniere Sabine Pass liquefaction facility in Cameron, Louisiana
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Energy Source
      Arctic drilling decision draws high drama over land that no one wants Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, energy execs pay lip service to decarbonisation with generous shareholder dividends

      A polar bear sow and two cubs are seen on the Beaufort Sea coast within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Biden administration to restrict Alaska oil and gas drilling

      Move comes six months after White House approved controversial Willow project

      A drilling rig at ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      US
      Burning Man organisers begin ‘exodus’ of people trapped in desert mud

      Annual Nevada festival has become magnet for tech and finance execs and social media influencers

      A person carrying a bicycle through mud
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      US society
      Thousands of Burning Man festival-goers stranded in Nevada mud

      Torrential rains turn desert event into ‘hellscape’ of impenetrable muck and overflowing sewage

      Two festival-goers walk through the mud at Burning Man after a night of dancing with friends in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Permian Resources to acquire Earthstone Energy in $4.5bn deal

      Agreement comes amid return of M&A in upstream oil and gas sector as cash-rich producers search for drilling sites 

      An oil production facility in the Texas Permian Basin
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Energy Source
      The impact of the Inflation Reduction Act, one year on Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a look at the widening global oil supply deficit

      A new hybrid transmission for Ford’s five new electric and hybrid vehicles is produced at Ford Motor Company’s Van Dyke Transmission Plant
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      US Inflation Reduction Act
      Inside the $220bn American cleantech project boom

      One year after the IRA and Chips Act became law, FT research shows who is winning the investment race

      A montage of US President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and a bar graph
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      A year of the Inflation Reduction Act

      China sends finance experts to tackle regions’ debts

    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Climate change
      Youth activists win landmark US climate legal victory in Montana case

      Ruling cheered by environmental groups making similar claims around the world

      Some of the plaintiffs in the case Held vs Montana at the courthouse in Helena, Montana
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      Energy sector
      Republican districts dominate US clean tech boom

      A year after passage of IRA and Chips Act, vast majority of investment is going to red states

      A worker at a wind farm in Colorado
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Energy Source
      What’s stopping the buildout of US power lines Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Joe Biden touts clean energy jobs on the campaign trail

      Utility workers repair a power line in New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      Energy Source
      A ‘revival’ in US nuclear industry’s fortunes? Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, deadline on US clean hydrogen guidelines looms

      Cooling towers for units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle in the US state of Georgia
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Hydrogen power
      Energy groups mount campaign against tough US clean hydrogen rules

      Oil majors and utilities seek tax credits for projects powered in part by fossil fuels

      Hydrogen electrolyser stacks at Plug Power’s facility in Concord, Massachusetts
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Energy Source
      The White House’s war on methane Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, IRA lures European solar manufacturer to new US facility over German expansion

      A flare to burn methane from oil production on a well pad in North Dakota
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Energy Source
      Can clean energy investment outlive Joe Biden’s IRA? Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, oilfield services hit by shale patch slowdown

      Joe Biden walks by solar panels
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Energy Source
      Is oil ‘back from the dregs’? Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Joe Biden’s attempt to green the economy runs into labour debate

      Pumpjacks in California
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new era of big government: Biden rewrites the rules of economic policy

      Forty years after Reaganomics rejected government intervention in the economy, the US is embracing massive subsidies. But will voters notice?

      A montage photo of a Viridi Parente worker, the US flag and US great seal
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Energy Source
      ‘Green nationalism’ endangers the global energy transition Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, the US clean energy jobs boom continued in 2022

      President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Old Post Office in Chicago
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      The energy transition will be volatile Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, scorching heat in Texas drives power demand to record highs

      Workers at a gas drilling site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      Prigozhin’s ‘coup’ failed to wake oil market bears Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, China tops Japan as the largest car exporter

      Wagner military forces
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      Cleantech arms race is ‘good for climate’ Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, the ever-shrinking shale rig count

      Engie employees walk down a road for a closer look at wind turbines during a tour for the dedication of the Limestone Wind Project in Dawson, Texas
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Climate change
      US cannot rely on allies to meet climate goals, warns Mitsubishi

      Domestic manufacturing and ‘friendshoring’ will struggle to supply the clean energy boom

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