** Duke Energy plans to work with BMW of North America, Ford Motor Co., General Motors and American Honda Motor Co. Inc. to recruit 200 electric vehicle owners for the pilot. ** US natural gas producer EQT says prices are surging due to lack of adequate pipeline structure. CEO Toby Rice suggested the fix to high natural gas …
Category: EPA
Unhealthy air warning for SE Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality issued a health advisory Monday morning pointing to unhealthy air conditions in southeast Oklahoma. The DEQ identified Pittsburg County as having high levels of fine particular matter that could prove “unhealthy” for certain people. In particular, those with respiratory diseases, such as asthma, were encouraged to limit their …
Other energy news headlines
** U.S. consumption of coal fell from 11.3 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2019 to 9.2 quads in 2020, a 19% decrease. The electric power sector accounted for 90% of total consumption reported the U.S. Energy Information Administration. ** Toyota announces it will invest $73 million into a West Virginia factory to increase its ability to produce hybrid …
Oklahoma’s DEQ threatened with lawsuit
Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality is being threatened with a lawsuit because for the second time, the agency has failed to meet a deadline to file pollution reduction plan under the Clean Water Act. The Sierra Club is among those environmental groups wanting to haul the agency into court reported News 9 TVin Oklahoma …
Senators urge EPA to delay WOTUS “land grab”
The names of Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford are among the 50 Senate Republicans who recently urged the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers against updating their definition of waters protected under the Clean Water Act. The Senators want the two bodies to pause until the U.S. Supreme Court …
Other energy news headlines
** The interior solicitor in the Biden administration said in an opinion released Friday that the mineral rights under the original Missouri River riverbed belong to a North Dakota tribal nation. ** ConocoPhillips said traders should be worried about strong oil production growth coming out of the U.S. this year and in 2023, potentially echoing the …
New Mexico enviros want EPA crackdown on oil and gas
Environmentalists in New Mexico are urging the Biden administration to crack down on oil and gas operations in their state as the EPA inches closer to new federal regulations on methane emissions. Click here for Carlsbad Current-Argus
Friday’s other energy news headlines
**Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Interior Appropriations Ranking Member David Joyce (OH-14) led 13 Members in sending a letter to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Moore and Interior Secretary Haaland to demand an overdue report to Congress on 10-year contracting for aerial wildfire operators, as directed by the Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations bill. ** The United Steelworkers union …
Thursday headlines of other energy stories
** U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), along with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), ranking member of the ENR Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, opposing the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) recent proposal to remove helium and …
Other energy headlines on Wednesday
** The American Petroleum Institute (API) Monday submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)’s proposed methane regulations, emphasizing support for the direct regulation of methane for new and existing sources and highlighting the industry’s progress in reducing methane emissions intensity from operations. ** JPMorgan Chase & Co. is selling Bighorn Permian Resources LLC, an oil and gas producer …