The board of directors of Phillips 66 has appointed Julie L. Bushman to serve as an independent director, effective July 8, 2020. Bushman will serve on the Audit and Finance Committee and the Public Policy Committee of the board. Following the appointment, the board of Phillips 66 will comprise 11 directors, 10 of whom …
The amount of drilling permits issued in Texas by June of this year was down 69% compared to a year ago. The country’s biggest-oil producing state handed out less than one-third of the oil and gas drilling permits compared to June 2019, thanks largely to the COVID-19 pandemic and its harmful effect on the …
** U.S. greenhouse gas emissions tumbled 18 percent this spring as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that crippled the economy, according to a new analysis released this week. ** Communities from Georgia to Illinois have expressed outrage over their elevated cancer risk stemming from emissions of a toxic gas from neighboring medical sterilizing facilities, and EPA …
The bankruptcy of a Colorado-based solar energy firm is hitting a Tulsa investment company to the tune of more than $23 million. Black Coral Capital and First Solar Distributed Generation LLC based in Tempe, Arizona are the holders of $23.37 million in secured debts of Clean Energy Collective LLC, a Louisville, Colorado company that …
A Democratic-leaning group demands an EPA official recuse herself from the agency’s oversight of methane gas because her family in Texas owns land where an Enbridge natural gas pipeline crosses. Anne Idsal runs the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. Valley Crossing Pipeline LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enbridge, operates a 168-mile natural …
Wyoming regulators have approved the state’s first new coal mining operation in nearly half a century. The Department of Environmental Quality announced Tuesday it will issue a coal mining permit to Brook Mining Company LLC following years of internal review and public debate. The permit will allow the firm to mine for coal just …
The federal court order shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline owned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer is not only affecting the Texas company but some major energy firms in Oklahoma as well as firms with major operations in Oklahoma. Here’s why. Energy Transfer is the majority-owner but the pipeline is also owned by Phillips …
