** A federal court in Idaho ruled a legal challenge led by two grassroots wildlife conservation groups against a natural gas pipeline can proceed. The proposed pipeline in question is the Crow Creek Pipeline. It is intended to provide natural gas to Afton, Wyoming via pipeline instead of the current method of highway transportation. The pipeline is meant to run from Southeastern Idaho to Wyoming.
** Indiana’s attorney general files a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop what he says is California’s attempt to set national climate policy.
** In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Yale University economist Matthew Kotchen calculated that U.S. fossil fuel companies get direct benefits of $62 billion a year in implicit subsidies due to what he calls “inefficient pricing”.
** Canada’s biggest oil-producing province Alberta is expected to see the fastest growth in renewable energy capacity between 2018 and 2023, the Canada Energy Regulator forecast in a Tuesday report, as new wind and solar projects help replace coal-fired electricity.
** A former Tesla Inc. employee’s complaint about how the company managed and communicated about fire risks in its solar installations is being treated as evidence by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in its investigation, CNBC reported Monday.
** The states of Ohio and Louisiana have asked to intervene in a federal court case over the future of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac. The states, led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, filed a request Friday seeking amici status in Enbridge’s case against the state’s revocation of its 1953 easement through the Straits of Mackinac.
** The Interior Department under newly confirmed Secretary Deb Haaland has withdrawn an opinion by the Trump administration that concluded the portion of the Missouri River that flows through the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation belongs to the state of North Dakota.
** Mergers and acquisitions in Canada’s oil and gas sector had a record start to the year in 2021 as companies took advantage of improved oil price expectations amid the pandemic recovery, and many industry participants expect the trend to continue.
** Conservation groups sue the Bureau of Land Management over a rushed oil and gas lease sale in central California last December.
** Iowa legislators seek to remove an outdated state law that required local governments to buy coal produced in the state when mining was active there.