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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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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    US Inflation Reduction Act
    Siemens’ US chief urges strong message to voters on Biden subsidies

    Executives fear Republicans will repeal clean energy tax breaks if they win in 2024

    Barbara Humpton
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    News in-depthShale Oil & Gas
    US shale bosses vow to hold back drilling despite rising oil price

    Producers say Biden’s ‘war’ on fossil fuels and Wall Street’s insistence on capital discipline limit expansion

    A view looking up to an oil worker hanging from a climbing harness at a shale oil field in North Dakota
  • 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

    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
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