Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey led a coalition of 18 states, territories and counties in filing an amicus brief on Wednesday to affirm a lower court’s ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers did not properly assess the potential impact of an oil spill from the Dakota Access pipeline. The filing in the U.S. Court of …
Leaders of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club say they saw a slight improvement in the environmental grades given Oklahoma’s legislators following the 2020 legislative session. The Chapter grades senators and representatives based on how they vote on environmental issues supported by the Club. The Oklahoma Environmental Legislative Scorecard was released this week …
Phillips 66 and Phillips 66 Partners plan a release of their third quarter 2020 financial results on Friday, Oct. 30 and investors wonder if there will be continued improvement after massive first and second quarter losses. Results will be released early in the day and executive management will hold a conference call webcast at …
A New Mexico solar manufacturing firm whose success is growing intends to go public with an initial offering of $100 million. Array Technologies, based in Albuquerque filed paperwork this week indicating plans to take the company public, according to a report by Greentech Media. The report indicated the move would make Array the second-largest publicly …
The state of New Mexico is strongly objecting to federal nuclear regulators’ preliminary recommendation that a license be granted to build a multibillion-dollar storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the U.S. The Associated Press reported that state officials, in a letter submitted Tuesday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the site …
** Amazon and Global Optimism announced that Best Buy, McKinstry, Real Betis, Schneider Electric, and Siemens have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord’s goal of 2050. ** The EPA threatens to close its regional office in New York City following President Trump’s declaration that the city is an …
For the fourth straight year the Railroad Commission of Texas has exceeded its performance target of plugging abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the state. With the fiscal year ending on Aug. 31, the agency plugged 1,477 orphan wells in Fiscal Year 2020, which exceeded the target of 1,400 set by the Legislature reported …
A worker fell to his death from a wind turbine tower in West Texas. Tom Green County deputies say it happened Tuesday at a Christoval wind farm in Tom Green County. The worker, Aaron Scott Johnson, 39 of Big Spring was dead at the scene. He was working inside a wind tower when he …
Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, LLC announced this week that nearly $856 million of its Senior notes offered by the firm were tendered. The $855.6 million in outstanding 10% Senior Notes due 2022 were exchanged for new 9% Senior Notes due 2027. Ascent said $538 million of the new term loans would be borrowed and …
Oklahoma’s drilling activity is still in a deep recession but this week, Houston’s Ovintiv Mid-Continent Inc. applied for and won a permit to do more drilling in the STACK in the state. The company received a permit for the CHLOUBER FED 1608 #8H-16X located at 27 16N 8W in Kingfisher County. The site is …
