** Just like Oklahoma did last fall, Wyoming is cracking down on illegal truck drivers. The Laramie County Sheriff’s Office caught 32 illegal immigrant truck drivers this week during a three-day crackdown called “Truck Around and Find Out.” They made 177 stops overall and wrote 51 tickets.
** Average daily crude oil production in the United States eased in December to the lowest daily production rate in months, according to the latest EIA data. Total December production, however, was higher than in November. According to the EIA, U.S. crude oil output averaged 13.655 million barrels per day in December, down from 13.788 million in November and the lowest daily average since June 2025.
** President Donald Trump stopped at the Port of Corpus Christi on Friday, with a focus on the energy industry. Praising Corpus Christi as an energy base, he highlighted drilling deeper as part of the energy industry’s surge. “On day one,” Trump said, “I declared a national energy emergency. I ended the Biden export ban, and I told our great Texas energy workers to very simply, ‘Drill, baby! Drill.'”
** The New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned the Supreme Court to take up the Choice Refrigerants v. EPA lawsuit and enforce or replace the lax intelligible-principle test that the D.C. Circuit misapplied.
** The U.S. EPA will “revamp” the Clean School Bus program and shift $2.3 billion in remaining funds away from electric buses and likely toward vehicles powered by natural gas, biofuel, and hydrogen.
** The Interior Department is reviewing at least 20 commercial-scale projects that have been stuck in permitting since Trump took office, including the massive Esmeralda project in Nevada.
WORLD
** Some analysts believe crude oil prices around the world could soar $10 to $20 per barrel following military attacks on Iran by the U.S. and Israel in an effort to further destroy the country’s nuclear program and remove the current regime from power.
** China unveiled the installation of a 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine. Each of the three blades is 482 feet long or longer than a football field and the turbine is located 18 miles off the coast of Fujian province in East China.
** Venezuela’s oil ministry has suspended 19 oil production-sharing contracts with private companies signed under the administration of President Nicolas Maduro, four sources with knowledge of the move told Reuters. The suspension has had no impact on the country’s oil and gas output so far, the sources said.