** As crews rush to contain a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore pipeline off the Southern California coast, questions arise over officials’ slow response to initial reports of the spill.
** The city of Port Arthur, Texas just added its 11th electric bus to its fleet.
** Federal regulators propose a $150,000 fine against Entergy for three violations at a Louisiana nuclear power plant.
** Federal officials propose endangered species protections for a wildflower that grows only on the planned site of a Nevada lithium mine.
** As some British gas stations are without fuel, British soldiers have started driving tankers to deliver more gasoline.
** Missouri consumer advocates say ratepayers shouldn’t be responsible for operating costs related to an Ameren wind farm that has idled at night because of recent bat and eagle deaths.
** A North Dakota editorial board says a rebuilt Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota is once again moving oil “as it’s intended to do.”
** Navajo Nation residents call for better air quality monitoring in a Utah oil field after a family is sickened by an oil and gas facility hydrogen sulfide leak.
** U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet, both Colorado Democrats, urge the Biden administration to extend methane-emission rules to abandoned oil and gas wells.
** Public hearings on New Mexico’s proposed ozone-pollution regulations wrap up, with environmentalists criticizing the rules as too weak and industry claiming they will cost too much.
** Heavy, wet snow leaves thousands without power in Alaska’s interior.