** NextEra Energy and Salt River Project announce plans to develop Arizona’s largest wind facility on private land near Flagstaff. ** Wyoming Republican U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis blocks one of President Biden’s EPA picks over the administration’s handling of a haze rule affecting one of her state’s coal power plants. ** A Montana federal judge orders NorthWestern Energy to halt construction of …
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Other energy headlines on Monday
** Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s most serious campaign on Capitol Hill this year—passage of a bill enacting sanctions on entities working on Nord Stream 2—ended with a failed messaging vote. After leaving the vote open for nearly seven hours, the legislation was rejected Thursday, 55-44, with a handful of Democrats joining Republicans in support. …
Friday’s other energy headlines
** The abrupt exits of Cecilia Martinez and David Kieve from the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality within days of each other have sparked alarm among environmental justice experts, who had already been frustrated by what they see as the administration’s lack of progress in fulfilling Biden’s promises to fix historic environmental and economic …
Other energy news stories
** The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites. ** The US government spent $1.1 billion on carbon capture projects that mostly failed. ** U.S. …
Challenge to EPA’s authority over power plants to be heard by Supreme Court
In a month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge that is being described as one of the most significant Supreme Court environmental battles of the decade—and it involves Oklahoma and a handful of other states. Justices will hear the case, West Virginia v. EPA on Feb. 28, a case filed by the …
Tuesday’s other energy headlines
** Regional prices of crude oil pumped in Western Canada and in North Dakota have risen this week to lower their discounts to the U.S. benchmark, WTI Crude, after freezing winter temperatures disrupted crude flows from Alberta’s oil sands and the Bakken shale play in the United States. ** Coal burned for electricity spiked 17% in 2021, …
Monday headlines of other energy news stories
** Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday rejected a proposal by the United Steelworkers union (USW) to end an eight-month lockout of about 600 workers at the company’s Beaumont, Texas, refinery, the company said. ** The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Thursday denied a license to Oklo Power LLC to build and operate the company’s Aurora compact …
Former EPA leader Wheeler picked to head Virginia environmental efforts
Andrew Wheeler, the former EPA Administrator who previously spent 15 years as a key staffer for Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was picked this week by the Republican Gov.-elect to be Virginia’s next secretary of Natural Resources. But the selection drew immediate critical response following Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s decision. One Virginia Representative called Wheeler …
Friday’s other energy news headlines
** The energy crisis roiling markets in Europe is a preview of what the U.S. will face over the next 10 years as it shifts to cleaner power sources, according to Ed Morse, Citigroup’s global head of commodities research. ** A deep-freeze in Canada and Northern U.S. is disrupting oil flows, causing a surge in crude prices …
Other energy headlines on Thursday
** Exxon Mobil, an American multinational oil and gas entity, is expected to report its fourth-quarter earnings of $1.73 per share, which represents year-over-year growth of over 5,666%, up from $0.03 per share seen in the same period a year ago. ** This week will mark the start of the final round of bidding in the …
