Environmental activists are threatening to go to court after the Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum announced recently it would no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to create an environmental impact statement for more than 3,200 oil and gas leases across seven states in the West. The states include Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, …
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Energy briefs
** A U.S. EPA document shows the Trump administration intends to exempt 47 coal power plants from updated mercury and toxic emissions rules, including the Colstrip and Apache facilities in Montana and Arizona. ** Tri-State Generation and Transmission proposes a 307 MW natural gas plant and a 200 MW battery storage system in northwestern Colorado …
Energy briefs
** BP has made an oil discovery at the Far South field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, it said on Monday, as the energy major seeks to grow production under a strategy reset announced earlier this year. The exploration well was drilled in Green Canyon Block 584 about 120 miles (193.12 km) off the coast of …
Energy briefs
** Every anti-energy regulation at the EPA, the Department of Energy, the Interior Department, and the Army Corps of Engineers will sunset unless specifically designated for re-promulgation under Trump’s new “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting” executive order. ** The date for the International Linemen’s Rodeo has been set for October 15-18 of this year in Overland Park, …
EPA okays first carbon capture project in Texas
While Oklahoma legislators considered a carbon capture bill this session, in Texas, the EPA has approved a company’s carbon capture project. The Environmental Protection Agency gave approval to Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s application to capture carbon dioxide and inject it underground at a site near the city of Odessa. It is the first such …
Energy briefs
** President Trump is expected to sign executive orders this week supporting the coal industry, including using emergency powers to force some coal plants slated for closure to stay open. ** One person was injured after a “well control incident” at a Chevron oil and gas facility northeast of Greeley, Colorado that prompted evacuations and …
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** Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making. The case was the first of dozens of pending lawsuits to reach trial in Louisiana against the world’s leading oil companies for their role …
Nominees to state water, air and environmental boards approved
Nominations to state boards focused on water, the environment and air quality won unanimous approval Thursday in a meeting of the Oklahoma Senate Energy Committee. Mark A. Helm of Edmond was nominated to serve a second seven- year term to the Oklahoma Mining Commission. The vote was 6-0 for a term ending in 2032. …
Energy briefs
** A federal judge on Wednesday pressed an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency about whether the agency broke the law when it swiftly terminated $20 billion worth of grants awarded to nonprofits for a green bank by allegedly bulldozing past proper rules and raising flimsy accusations of waste and fraud. ** CenterPoint Energy has completed the …
Energy briefs
** Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs legislation into law classifying nuclear power as “clean energy” after it passed the legislature with bipartisan support. ** The Kansas City area could add another data center — this one to the tune of $12 billion spread across six buildings in Wyandotte County. ** A company halts the environmental …