** U.S. shale oil and gas producers Oasis Petroleum Inc and Whiting Petroleum Corp are close to agreeing an all-stock merger that could be announced as soon as this week, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. ** Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D) said on Sunday that if the U.S. decides to ban Russian …
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** The Biden administration is considering following Canada in barring Russian ships from U.S. ports, a government official said this week. A White House spokeswoman said no decision has been made. ** Biden administration officials pressured some Democratic senators not to support bipartisan legislation by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would ban oil and …
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** Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) thinks there’s a filibuster-proof majority of senators willing to back crushing sanctions on Russia’s energy sector — a step President Biden and his European counterparts have so far refused to take. ** Halliburton Company celebrated the opening of the Halliburton Chemical Reaction Plant – the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia to manufacture …
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** The Biden administration on Monday declined to appeal a January court decision that invalidated oil and gas leases it sold last year. In a new court filing, the administration said it would not appeal the ruling. ** Duke Energy Carolinas will close a small peaker unit at its W.S. Lee plant in South Carolina on March 31, more than …
Oklahoma and others fight EPA’s new tailpipe emissions standards
The Environmental Protection Agency finds itself under more legal fire, being sued by Texas, Oklahoma and other states over the tailpipe emissions directive the agency issued in December 2021. Attorney General Ken Paxton in Texas led the 14-state coalition, calling the new tailpipe rules “unnecessary” that “will create a deliberate disadvantage to Texas and …
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** Chevron Corp.’s $3.1 billion purchase of Renewable Energy Group Inc. is a statement of the oil giant’s intent to accelerate its energy transition strategy, according to Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth. ** Firestone will pay $3.35 million in civil penalties for Clean Air Act violations and other infractions at its synthetic rubber manufacturing facility in Sulphur, …
Supreme court to decide Oklahoma’s EPA challenge
Now it’s up to the Supreme Court to decide on the challenge made by Oklahoma, West Virginia and 18 other states to the EPA’s move to limit emissions from power plants under the landmark Clean Air Act. Oral arguments were heard Monday in what is called the most significant environmental case in a decade, …
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** The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday in a high-stakes case for President Biden’s climate agenda that will determine the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant emissions. ** President Biden’s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court could affect a case regarding the social cost of carbon that she’s currently weighing on a federal court. ** Exxon Mobil …
Justices hear arguments against EPA power plant rules
West Virginia took the lead Monday in oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme court in the fight by 20 states, including Oklahoma, against President Biden’s climate agenda. In doing so, the states have invoked the “major questions doctrine” which is a judicial principal being used to challenge the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions …
How a snowball plays a role in Sen. Inhofe’s legacy
Long after Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is gone from Congress, he will still be remembered for the day he brought a snowfall onto the floor of the U.S. Senate to make his point against the global warming movement. It was 2015 and the Republican Senator, who was famous for denying that climate change …