An environmental justice group in North Texas has sued the Trump administration’s EPA after a grant program was cancelled. Downwinders at Risk, described as a nonprofit focused on air quality and environmental justice filed suit after its air monitoring program was among victims of a recent elimination of a grant program at the Environmental …
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** The U.S. Department of Transportation has scrapped a rule mandating speed-limiting devices or “governors” on heavy-duty trucks, allowing them to race along the nation’s highways at top speed. Their requirement is now being dropped as part of a new DOT package intended to ease conditions for long-haul truckers. ** The U.S. Department of Energy this week …
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** A top EOG Resources executive agrees U.S. shale oil production has likely peaked and is now in decline., reported Hart Energy. “I think U.S. shale oil has definitely slowed, there’s no doubt about it,” EOG COO Jeff Leitzell said June 24 in response to a question about peak U.S. oil at the JPMorgan Energy, Power, …
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** Federal regulators have issued a handful of gas-related orders that clear the path for new pipeline and energy infrastructure in the Midwest and along the Gulf Coast. The decisions from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission come as the agency has taken steps to remove barriers to building gas pipelines, including granting a one-year waiver to a FERC rule …
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** Constellation Energy plans to restart Unit 1 of the former Three Mile Island nuclear power plant as the Crane Clean Energy Center. In a $16 billion deal between owner Constellation Energy and Microsoft to power the tech giant’s AI data centers, Three Mile Island is set to return to service as the Crane Clean …
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** Thousands of households in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania lose power as temperatures soar above 100 degrees and air conditioning use strains the grid. ** According to the Energy Information Administration, in 2023, nuclear power and renewable energy sources, such as solar power and wind power, accounted for 18% of the total energy …
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** The U.S. Supreme Court rules that petroleum producers have standing to sue California over its vehicle emissions rules, saying the firms would be harmed by a gasoline car phaseout. ** Two large California oil refineries are shutting down, triggering mounting concerns from state legislators, industry groups and many others. The Phillips 66 and Valero’s Benicia …
New Mexico sues Air Force over ‘forever’ chemicals
“Forever” chemicals in existence at an Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico have led to a lawsuit againt the military by the state of New Mexico. The New Mexico Environment Department and New Mexico Department of Justice announced this week they had filed a new lawsuit ordering the U.S. Department of the Air …
Wind blade operation to leave Cushing
Cushing will no longer be the site of an operation where outdated wind turbine blades are “downsized” and cut into small pieces for the eventual creation of mulch for a steam-generating electric generating plant. John Bok with North Coast Enterprise, the Ohio-based firm that specializes in helping wind farms decommission or dispose of old …
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** 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 …