** A gas plant slated for Williams County could ease natural gas flaring in northern North Dakota. The plant is to be located west of Williston in the Bakken oil region.
** Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. and Plains GP Holdings announced they will release fourth-quarter and full-year 2019 earnings after market close on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 and will hold a joint webcast on the same day.
** Environmental advocates sue Oregon’s Secretary of State for rejecting two clean energy bills, saying the action was without legal reasoning and constituted an abuse of power.
** Environmental groups want to stop oil and gas lease sales in the ecologically sensitive National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, offshore Arctic waters, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
** Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan directed his attorney general Wednesday to take legal action against EPA and Pennsylvania amid a long-running interstate battle to reduce pollution flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
** Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. and Plains GP Holdings announced that Lawrence Ziemba has been appointed to serve as an independent member of the Board of Directors of PAA GP Holdings LLC . Ziemba served as Executive Vice President, Refining, and a member of the Executive Committee, of Phillips 66 from May 2012 until his retirement in December 2017.
** A South Dakota city approves a plan for its municipal fleet to run on ethanol blended gasoline.
** Dominion Energy fired a Rock Springs, Wyoming oilfield worker a few days before Christmas after he saved an estimated 50 waterfowl from wastewater ponds.
