A state senator in Kansas and former mayor of El Dorado, home to one of the state’s three oil refineries contends the state is positioned to make a strong economic comeback after the pandemic, but claims refineries are still facing headwinds because of inaction by the EPA. Sen. Michael Fagg, writing in the Wichita …
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Energy news in brief
** The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany, according to two sources briefed on the decision. The decision indicates the Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline and contradict’s Biden’s campaign rhetoric in which …
Energy secretary to be questioned about her budget
Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin and others on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will have a chance this week to question Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about her agency’s budget. She will go before the committee on Wednesday to talk about the Energy Department’s fiscal 2022 budget request. How much money are we talking about? …
Energy news in brief
** The company that operates America’s biggest fuel pipeline has reportedly paid a ransom of nearly $5m (£3.5m) to hackers who shut down the facility last week triggering fuel shortages and price hikes across the East Coast. Colonial Pipeline paid the extortion fee on Friday, Bloomberg reported, despite reports that it had no plans to do so …
Energy news in brief
** Federal lawmakers introduce a swath of cybersecurity and pipeline bills in response to Colonial Pipeline hack. ** At least 74 Biden administration officials and nominations disclosed some stake in the fossil fuel industry, according to a review of disclosure documents by Forbes Magazine and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. ** A coalition of conservation groups are suing the …
EPA hands out ‘brownfields’ grants to clean contaminated sites
Two of the 151 communities receiving more than $66 million in Environmental Protection Agency ‘brownfields’ grants announced this week are in Oklahoma. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma received a $300,000 grant to clean up a site on the Concho School property. Oklahoma City was the other recipient and will use its $300,000 …
Inhofe and others to vote on Biden nominees this week
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and others on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing Wednesday on Biden nominees for Interior and the EPA. One of the nominations is that of Shannon Estenoz to be Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks of the Department of Interior. Another …
Energy news in brief
** Oil prices moved higher after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory draw of 8 million barrels for the week to April 30. The oil inventory figure compared with a weekly draw of 7.688 million barrels estimated by the American Petroleum Institute a day earlier. ** A judge sentences two tree-sitters who defied a court order to …
EPA files motion to vacate three biofuel exemptions given to Sinclair
At least one US oil giant found out recently it has a target on its back and the federal government is doing the aiming. The Environmental Protection Agency didn’t wait on a US Supreme Court decision that could affect an Oklahoma refinery about biofuel blending mandate exemptions before targeting Sinclair Oil Corporation. The EPA …
EPA says Colorado tanker spill leaked more fuel than thought
The Environmental Protection Agency says a gasoline tanker truck that crashed in the small Colorado town of Lyons north of Boulder might have spilled far more fuel than originally estimated. Investors and crews now believe 1,000 to 1,600 gallons leaked into the soil after the tanker rolled over on a U.S. 36 highway curve. …