Just how much influence do environmental activist groups carry with the Biden White House? Are they in essence writing some of the controversial new rules? It’s a question Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas wants answered in his capacity as chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. California Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte, chair …
Forty-six U.S.House members, Democrats and Republicans alike, signed a letter this week to the EPA asking it not to force America’s farmers to report air emissions on manure. You know….cow and horse poop or chicken litter. The kind of stuff that covers your boots when you walk through a barnyard or feed lot. Yes, …
** Exxon and Canada-based crude pipeline operator Enbridge were sued in Illinois federal court on Tuesday over claims they barred a competitor from building a terminal to ship oil by barge from the Chicago area to refineries in the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico. ** House Small Business Committee Chair Roger Williams, R-Texas, is demanding answers …
** The top five Western oil and gas firms – BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and TotalEnergies – returned to shareholders over $111 billion in dividends and share repurchases in 2023, according to Reuters calculation. ** US oil output will expand by only 160,000 barrels per day this year, a dramatic slowdown from the 1.02 …
** Energy watchdog group Power the Future (PTF) filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the Biden administration on Tuesday, alleging it failed to divulge Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry’s taxpayer-funded staff. ** The Biden administration finalized regulations severely tightening restrictions on fine particulate matter that the manufacturing and energy sectors are legally allowed to emit, an action …
Suncor Energy is coughing up $10.5 million to settle pollution violations at its refinery in Commerce City, Colorado outside of Denver—-the largest such fine in state history. Suncor was accused by the Colorado Air Pollultion Control Division of hundreds of unpermitted air releases at the refinery between July 2019 and June 2021. The Canadian …
** One person is dead following a sudden explosion at a petroleum pumping station in Cass County, Michigan.The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says two men were working at the oil pumping station when it exploded. ** The Senate’s border and Ukraine spending package contains more than $2 billion in funds for uranium processing, as the U.S. …
Because of President Biden’s recent moratorium on LNG projects across the nation, four such LNG projects totaling billions of dollars are on hold in the state of Texas. Developers contend the White House, as a result of the order, is jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars invested by developers. The Houston Chronicle reported that …
** Georgia Power Co. said Thursday that vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will delay when the unit begins generating power. ** ExxonMobil and Chevron reported lower but still strong profits Friday as they push ahead with hefty shareholder payouts and major acquisitions. The two biggest US oil companies, which have …
(AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File) With Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin voting against him, President Biden’s nominee to lead the EPA’s air pollution office was confirmed by a one-vote margin. Joe Goffman, a longtime EPA official was approved on a 50-49 vote. West Virginia Sen. Joe Machin was the lone Democrat to …
