Energy news in brief

** Houston’s Nine Energy Service, Inc. has scheduled its first quarter 2020 earnings conference call for Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 9:00 am Central Time. During the call, Nine will discuss its financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, which are expected to be released prior to the conference call.

** Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream Partners, LP  will release first quarter 2020 financial results before market hours Wednesday, May 6, and will host a conference call at 10 a.m. EDT (9 a.m. CDT) that day to discuss the results.

** A federal judge revokes a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline that opponents say creates a “significant hurdle” for the project to move forward.

** Michigan leads the Midwest with nearly 5,500 clean energy job losses since the coronavirus outbreak while hundreds of thousands more are expected nationally in the coming weeks, according to a new report by business and environmental groups.

** Residents in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood file a class action lawsuit against the developer overseeing a former coal plant smokestack demolition that covered the surrounding area in dust over the weekend.

** Joplin, Missouri, offers Tesla $1 billion in tax incentives and savings to locate a Cybertruck factory there.

** County officials in southeastern Kansas approve plans for a wind project that they say will bring local revenue without having to raise taxes.

** A new report indicates 20,000 California clean energy workers lost their jobs in the first few weeks of the coronavirus shutdown, the largest number of any state.

** The Sierra Club files a lawsuit against the EPA, alleging the agency is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to take final action on Arizona air pollution.

** Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon says the state faces possible economic disaster due to market volatility in the oil and gas energy and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

** Wyoming and Utah are among five states asking the EPA for a nationwide waiver exempting the oil-refining industry from federal biofuel requirements.