** Oklahoma City’s Mammoth Energy Services, Inc.announced that it intends to release financial results for the first quarter of 2020 after the market close on May 7, 2020. A conference call to discuss the results has been scheduled for Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4 p.m. central time.
** Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P.plans to release first quarter 2020 financial results after market close on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. The Partnership will discuss its first quarter 2020 results during a conference call on Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT).
** Construction of a major gas pipeline from Norway is to begin in the coming days and will be a “milestone” in giving Poland independence from Russian gas, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday.
** A new survey finds an estimated 15,000 solar energy jobs have been lost in California because of the coronavirus crisis; residential installers across the country are particularly hard hit.
** The City of Denver, Colorado is awarded $1,000,000 for low-cost community solar gardens across municipal properties including schools and libraries.
** PG&E announces three quarters of its board of directors will be removed as the utility exits bankruptcy, leaving three of the 14 current board members in place.
** Republican U.S. Wyoming Senator John Barrasso says he believes in the science of climate and is focused on ways climate challenges can be addressed without taxation and penalization.
** A proposed nuclear waste storage site in southern New Mexico advances through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licencing process while a U.S. Department of Energy-commissioned report indicates numerous concerns have to be addressed for the disposal program to be successful.
** A Wyoming wildlife researcher says the BLM should suspend oil and gas leasing during the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting oil prices.
** Duke Energy implodes a former coal plant along the Wabash River in western Indiana.
** President Trump signs an executive order allowing the U.S. energy secretary to prohibit the acquisition, importation, transfer or installation of power equipment from an adversary to protect the power grid.
** Breaking from other progressives, Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling to build a natural gas pipeline to serve an impoverished community near Chicago. The move puts Jackson at odds with some Democrats and environmentalists who oppose fossil fuels because they drive climate change. The famous civil rights activist says the largely black community is being unfairly cut off from affordable energy.