** Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski is pressing federal energy statisticians to publish data on oil storage capacity to help domestic producers navigate a flooded global market.
** The Trump administration defended its decision to finalize the rollback of clean car standards during the novel coronavirus crisis, prompting praise from conservatives and lawsuit threats from environmentalists.
** Volvo Tuesday became the latest automaker to subvert President Trump’s rollback of clean car standards — just hours after the administration finalized the proposal.
** The nation’s main oil and natural gas industry lobby, the American Petroleum Institute is consolidating its network of advocacy operations.
** Yellowstone National Park is done capturing wild bison for the year after rounding up almost 550 of the wild animals and sending 270 to slaughter as part of a population control program, park officials said.
** Environmental groups on Tuesday sued the Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency’s decision to allow up to 72 grizzly bears to be killed over the next 10 years near Yellowstone National Park.
** A Delaware judge has granted DuPont’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities imposed on spinoff company Chemours.
** A coalition of conservation groups on Monday told the federal government they stand ready to launch a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s revamped protections for waterways and wetlands.
** China is burning more coal in yet another sign that the first country hit by a coronavirus outbreak is returning to a level of normalcy.
** A railway company this week asked a federal court to rehear its plea to block an American Indian tribe’s challenge to crude oil shipments close to a reservation in Washington state.
** What was meant to be a year that blew the wind energy industry well past its previous record for installations will more likely clear that mark by a more modest advance.
** Electric utilities nationwide are calling for more testing kits and personal protective equipment as they take steps to safeguard their workers from the novel coronavirus, the head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said this week.
** Alaska conservation groups are blasting the Bureau of Land Management for considering an oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
** An equipment failure at a North Dakota saltwater disposal well causes 608 barrels of brine to spill.
** Colorado officials are critical of the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era auto fuel efficiency standards, and the state plans to join a multi-state lawsuit over it.
** Wyoming regulators announce a tax break for the state’s oil and gas producers for the next six months due to depressed market conditions from the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting oil prices.
** An exploration of wind energy in Wyoming indicates the change from fossil fuels to renewables in the state will take time because it is cultural as well as economic