The Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll flags this interesting item from the Washington Post’s report on the messy break-up between environmental groups and the natural gas industry: Natural gas entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens gave $453,250 to the liberal t

Dallas, TX-based energy-focused BP Capital Management LP, founded in 1997 by T. Boone Pickens, manages $4 billion in assets, most of it in a commodity-focused hedge fund and a smaller $140 million in an energy-focused equity hedge fund. Mr. Pickens holds

T. Boone Pickens is one of the most popular businessmen in the U.S. He frequently can be seen on TV, particularly when it comes to energy-related issues. Pickens, who became a billionaire through his oil investments, has a vast amount of business experie

Just as new drilling technologies have created a boom in natural gas supply, so, too, has that boom borne renewed investor interest in the industry. Prices have dropped to decade lows, and it seems that new market opportunities are springing up with ever

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Meena is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited. T. Boone Pickens is one of the best known oil men in the world. Known as a takeover operator and corporate raider in

The best energy bet for the United States amid rising crude prices might lay in natural gas, billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens said Wednesday. If Navistar [ NAV 42.85 -1.58 (-3.56%) ] and Clean Energy Fuels [ CLNE 16.50 -0.38 (-2.25%) ] follow th

T. Boone Pickens is one of the most popular businessmen in the U.S. He frequently can be seen on TV, particularly when it comes to energy-related issues. Pickens, who became a billionaire through his oil investments, has a vast amount of business experie

“TED does that, attracting the best minds and creative ideas as part of the dialogue. This partnership represents a tremendous opportunity to add our faculty and students to that discussion.” The unique association will launch with UCLA Anderson’s “TED T

The UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced a partnership with TED, the nonprofit that hosts the wildly popular annual conferences with speakers that have included Apple’s Steve Jobs, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, and DNA-decoder Craig Venter. Th

Government officials are seen only in glimpses of television talk shows. Conspicuously absent are representatives of corporations like Airtricity , Enxco or Horizon Wind Energy (though the financier and wind advocate T. Boone Pickens comes off as a wolf

Compressed natural gas is seeing signs of life in St. Louis, more than a decade after the alternative fuel for cars, trucks and buses made its debut here. The move reflects a broader push by companies, including UPS, AT&T and Verizon, and municipal bodie

A Wealthy Backer Likes the Odds on Santorum By JIM RUTENBERG and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Many more Republicans are taking Mr. Santorum seriously now, thanks to his victories in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado on Tuesday — and perhaps none more than Mr. Romn

Should beer and wine be allowed to be sold to the general public at state university sporting events? Imagine sitting at an Arizona or Arizona State football game and suddenly hearing the public-address announcer bark, "Last call!" Several Arizona repres

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Fresh off a nod from President Obama’s State of the Union speech, T. Boone Pickens has again began to circle the country touting the alleged benefits of providing subsidies for the transportation sector to convert more vehicles to natural gas power. Toda

If you are going to transform American energy to address the national security and economic risks associated with our OPEC oil dependence, there is only one solution: move our natural gas reserves into transportation, with an emphasis on the heavy-duty t

"That dollar a gallon can add up really quick. At $2.50 a gallon, that's a lot less than you're paying for gasoline, and it's less than you're paying for diesel," Abroms said. Dunwoody's PS Energy Group is putting pumps at four metro outlets in partnersh

Mr. President, you are building the wrong car. In a May 2007 speech before the Detroit Economic Club, Candidate Obama chastised American automakers for building the wrong cars—while they were building “bigger, faster cars,” “foreign competitors were inve