May 30, 2023 archive

Completion reports for May 29, 2023

completions: none were processed today

Permits to drill for May 29, 2023

permits: none were processed today

Federal appeals court hands win to Arkansas in fight with EPA

  A Federal Appeals Court has told the EPA it was wrong to deny Arkansas’s plan to implement the Clean Air Act standards for ozone emissions. The court blocked the EPA”s disapproval in what Attorney General Tim Griffin called a win over regulatory overreach. The order from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was …

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ConocoPhillips to finish acquiring Canadian energy operation

  ConocoPhillips announced that it is exercising its preemption right to purchase the remaining 50% interest in Surmont from TotalEnergies EP Canada Ltd. for approximately $3 billion (CAD$4 billion), subject to customary adjustments, as well as contingent payments of up to approximately $325 million (CAD$440 million). ConocoPhillips currently holds a 50% interest as operator of …

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Governors urge EPA to increase requirement for biodiesel production

  Governors of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to give approval of an expansion of the federal requirement for more biodiesel production in the U.S. The three Midwest governors say diesel fuel supplies remain at low levels and farmers and truckers are dealing with “stubbornly high” prices. A year ago, …

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Nuclear waste company has challenges from New Mexico to Massachusetts

  Holtec, the same company that is opposed for winning government approval to store nuclear waste in New Mexico finds itself also the center of attention at Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts.. The company is in charge of decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth and wants to dump more than 1 million gallons of …

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