Union-led EPA workers in Colorado rallied this week against Elon Musk and his DROGE efforts to make large cuts to government spending. The protesting workers represented the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Enforcement Investigations Center. Nearly 100 of the employees marched on the sidewalk around downtown Denver’s Union Station. A union spokesman, Miles …
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** The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Oregon youth’s climate lawsuit accusing the federal government’s fossil fuel-friendly policies of violating their constitutional rights, ending the decade-long case. ** Pilot Company (Pilot), General Motors and EVgo Inc. announced their collaborative network has reached more than 130 electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging locations in over 25 states. …
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** A coal mine in southwestern Wyoming lays off 28 workers, citing a lagging market and competition with natural gas generation. ** California officials say the 178,549 public and shared private electric vehicle chargers in the state now outnumber gasoline pumps. ** A Massachusetts vehicle-to-everything pilot program will pay EV owners to let utilities tap …
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**Elk Range Royalties bought 250,000 net royalty acres in the Denver-Julesburg Basin for $905 million from from Occidental Petroleum, which is looking to shed debt after last year’s acquisition of CrownRock, reported Hart Energy. ** Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced plans to reopen 82% of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and the 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of …
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** A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017. ** A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups …
Judge blocks EPA’s attempt to recoup $20 billion
If Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin thought he would get his hands quickly on $20 billion in Biden-era climate grants stashed in financial institutions, a federal judge has ruled otherwise. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan prevented the EPA’s attempt to recover the money, an order that is considered the latest judicial setback for …
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** APA Corp. cut about 300 employees globally as it becomes the latest oil producer to reduce costs by eliminating jobs. The company formerly known as Apache made the reductions in January and late February, APA said in an emailed response to questions. It amounts to between 10% and 15% of the company’s workforce of …
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** Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its oil price forecasts, as tariffs reduce the outlook for US growth while OPEC and its allies boost output. The move follows a drop in crude prices from this year’s high in January on plentiful supply, a weak demand outlook from top importer China and an escalating international trade …
EPA’s climate change rollback stuns environmentalists
Climate change enthusiasts were rocked on their heels in the past week by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s announcement—a roll back of nearly every important climate policy on the books. Zeldin plans to kill climate rules and end grants already under construction and no longer make decisions based on what some call “bedrock scientific findings.” …
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** The Environmental Protection Agency said it’s terminating $20 billion in grants awarded through a green bank program established under former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law. The money is part of a $27 billion pool and awarded to community development organizations and other nonprofits, credit unions, housing agencies and solar energy projects. ** Oil …