** Federal authorities are working to contain an oil spill in a tributary of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, that may have come from a former nearby refinery.
** NASA’s experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dead in the sky since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful burst of energy out of nowhere. In an interview with New Scientist, one of the researchers from Australia’s Curtin University who discovered the strange pulse coming off the dead communications satellite described his shock at finding the nearby source of that nanosecond-long energy blast.
** North Dakota regulators deny landowners’ request to reconsider permits previously approved for a $440 million, 95-mile transmission project.
** Public comments will close soon on the U.S. Army Corps’ draft environmental review of the potential effects of boring an underground tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac to house the Line 5 pipeline.
** Texas regulators vote to suspend the permit of a Houston-area company to inject oil and gas wastewater in a part of the state that’s been repeatedly wracked by earthquakes.
** CenterPoint Energy announces it will deploy 15 large mobile generators to San Antonio, Texas, to reduce the risk of power shortfalls.
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** Around 84 percent of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz is destined for Asia, leaving the economies of China, India, South Korea and others vulnerable should Iran blockade the crucial trading route over US strikes on its nuclear sites.
** Russia is ready to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Mexico and share energy sector technologies, the Russian embassy in Mexico said on Saturday on X. Russia is prepared to offer oil extraction technologies suited for challenging geological conditions, as well as solutions aimed at improving the efficiency of oil processing, the embassy added.
** Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence service on Sunday said it had conducted a successful operation to disrupt fuel supplies to Russian occupying forces in the south-east of the country. According to the report, a Russian military tanker train was destroyed by drones in the Zaporizhzhya region.
