Occupations requiring skills and training in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines – which are foundational for tens of thousands of well-paying natural gas and oil industry jobs – currently makeup 20 percent of all U.S. jobs. Officials maintain that STEM-educated women and men will lead the industry’s future workforce, so oil and natural gas advocates have maintained a great interest in initiatives that advance education in those fields.
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State of American Energy Remains Strong Despite Federal Government Barriers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Occupations requiring skills and training in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines – which are foundational for tens of thousands of well-paying natural gas and oil industry jobs – currently makeup 20 percent of all U.S. jobs. Officials maintain that STEM-educated women and men will lead the industry’s future workforce, […]
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State of American Energy Remains Strong Despite Federal Government Barriers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Occupations requiring skills and training in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines – which are foundational for tens of thousands of well-paying natural gas and oil industry jobs – currently makeup 20 percent of all U.S. jobs. Officials maintain that STEM-educated women and men will lead the industry’s future workforce, so oil and natural gas advocates have maintained a great interest in initiatives that advance education in those fields.
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Oil & Natural Gas Industry Engineering Successful Opportunities for People of Color, and Women
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Amanda Eversole, a graduate of the College of William & Mary and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, now puts her strong track record of driving consensus and winning strategies to the test as API and all-in oil and natural gas wrestles with ensuring people of color and women are a large part of the lucrative industry.
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PRESS ROOM: LMOGA, API Launch New Educational Partnership in Support of Workforce Development and Diversity
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The MSI initiative’s mission is to develop and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the natural gas and oil industry workforce by providing API’s industry standards catalog, with over 700 standards, to accredited higher education institutions. Today’s announcement welcomes Southern University and A&M College and Grambling State University as official participants in API’s ongoing effort to increase access to API’s standards and prepare the incoming industry workforce. This effort supports API’s commitment to expanding diversity in the vital talent poolsthat will help meet the industry’s future workforce demands.
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Discovery Education Hosting Event to Celebrate Black Leaders in STEM
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The members of the STEM Careers Coalition want to prepare all students for future success, and they believe STEM education helps, no matter what career and life choices students make after graduation,” Marla Wilson, executive director of the STEM Careers Coalition, told NNPA Newswire. “I have always been interested in understanding how communities coexist with industrial activities,” added Uni Blake, a senior policy advisor at API.
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API Outlines Affordable and Accessible Energy in State of American Energy Report
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “A government that’s focused on recovery for all should reject policies that could drive up energy costs and hurt those who can least afford them,” Sommers said. “That is the case we’re making, and we are working with President Joe Biden and his administration. Our country has a lot of economic ground to make up, millions of more jobs to recover, and when the business at hand is the economic revival, no industry can help more than this one. The pandemic offered reminders of just how crucial the natural gas and oil industry is to everyday life.”
