Two Texas congressmen want a faster decision from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in giving the Texas Railroad Commission the authority over carbon capture wells in the state. Reps. Dan Crenshaw and August Pfluger, in a letter to Zeldin, urged him to expedite the Railroad Commission’s application for primary enforcement responsibility of …
** Still on hold: Arkansas has halted its $54.1 million build-out of electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration froze federal funding. ** The Greek shipping company Eurobulk has been hit with a $1.1 million fine by a Texas judge after the company pleaded guilty to illegally discharging oily bilge water from one of its vessels. ** …
Arkansas saw two major energy developments in the past week. One involved the Trump administration’s freeing of $200 million in green energy funds for the state while the second involved plans to build at least three renewable energy projects in Arkansas. Carbon solutions platform Clearloop of Nashville, Tennessee announced a deal with Microsft to …
** More than half of the jurors selected for Energy Transfer’s defamation trial against Greenpeace have ties to the fossil fuel industry or view pipeline protests negatively, signaling how difficult it was to seat a jury in oil country. ** Michigan utilities could be fined up to $10 million under a new order for failing …
** Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a battery that can convert nuclear waste into electricity. This innovative technology utilizes ambient gamma radiation from spent nuclear fuel to power electronics and offers a cleaner and more efficient energy source. ** Donald Trump’s freshly appointed Environmental Protection Agency chief is trying to seize $2 billion in …
** Chevron said on Monday it would reorganize some of its business structures and reshuffle the leadership team, the latest move by the U.S. energy major to simplify its operations. The company has said it would lay off up to 20% of its global workforce by the end of 2026, as it navigates cost overruns and a …
** President Donald Trump is calling for an audit that could kill California’s high-speed rail proposal, which has been around for nearly two decades and has made very little progress. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy secretary wants to investigate if there were any shady business dealings tied with the rail project’s failure so far. ** Federal energy …
** ConocoPhillips announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its interests in the Ursa and Europa Fields and Ursa Oil Pipeline Company LLC to Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Pipeline Company LP, subsidiaries of Shell plc, for $735 million subject to customary closing adjustments. The transaction also includes an overriding royalty interest in …
** General Motors CFO Paul Jacobson said on Wednesday at a Barclays conference that if U.S. tariffs became permanent, the company would have to consider moving plants, but also said it had not made those decisions yet. GM and other automakers are closely monitoring how tariffs on vehicles and parts from Canada, Mexico and elsewhere will impact …
** During an internal town hall meeting last week, roughly 40,000 Chevron employees were shown a video touting the oil giant’s success in Colorado as the largest oil and gas producer in the state. Less than 30 minutes later, executives announced plans to cut up to 20% of the global workforce, reported Reuters. ** Experts say the …
