** The Keystone oil pipeline ruptured Tuesday morning in North Dakota, with the spill confined to an agricultural field. An employee working at the site near Fort Ransom heard a “mechanical bang” and shut down the pipeline within about two minutes, said Bill Suess, spill investigation program manager with the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality.
** Federal agents investigate an explosion at a Tesla electric vehicle charging station in Portland, Oregon.
** Wyoming lawmakers celebrate the Trump administration’s executive orders aimed at bolstering coal mining and power generation by reopening public lands to leasing and waiving pollution rules for some facilities.
** U.S. oil major Chevron plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian basin, the company told Reuters, in an effort to cut the time and cost of producing oil. Chevron’s expansion of the technique, known as triple-frac, comes as the second-largest U.S. oil producer expects to continue growing output in the Permian.
** Following an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at increasing U.S. timber production, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced plans to remove environmental protections that will allow logging on millions of acres of national forest land.
** A climate radical from North Carolina is facing hard time now that he has been convicted of federal crimes related to an attack on a priceless work of art two years ago. Timothy Martin was convicted of attacking paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and could get 5 years in prison.
** U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and John Curtis (R-Utah) have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at expanding tribal access to federal energy programs.
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** Chinese buyers of LNG are re-selling U.S.-sourced cargoes as tit-for-tat tariffs drive up import costs, and the trend is set to accelerate as new multi-year supply deals kick in this month and domestic demand weakens, traders and analysts say.
** Angola exported more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe and less to Asia in 2022 and 2023, according to estimates from the Statistical Review of World Energy, when Europe increased LNG imports to offset reduced natural gas imports by pipeline from Russia following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war.