** Wyoming’s Office of State Lands and Investments began holding an oil and gas lease auction this week, one that’s considered one of its smallest since 2017. The auction underscores the challenges the office (OSLI) faces with promoting a carbon-based energy program to raise revenue. ** Chevron recently revealed plans to build its first solar-to-hydrogen production facility …
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** A 19-year-old who was a quarter mile away from a fiery butane tank explosion outside of Detroit, Michigan was struck and killed by a canister that flew into the air from the blast, according to fire officials. ** Climate envoy John Kerry will be leaving his Biden administration role this week. Wednesday will be his last day …
State agency releases plan to attack Oklahoma’s fossil fuel emissions
While some Oklahoma leaders are critical of what they contend is the Biden administration’s heavy-handed approach to forcing the state and the nation to adopt an extensive green energy approach, one state agency is out with a plan to target Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry, manufacturing, electricity production and its use of fossil fuels. …
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** A powerful blizzard in northern California intensified over the weekend, leaving drivers stranded and knocking out power to thousands of homes. A second system could bring more snowfall to the region, according to the National Weather Service. ** Owners of Nissan Leaf electric cars have accused the firm of “dumping its pioneers” after it announced …
EPA steps away from rule on gas-fired power plants
The Biden Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency are backing off deeply opposed plans to apply restrictive climate rules on the 2,000 gas-fired power plants across the U.S., including those in Oklahoma. But it is only temporary—until after the November election. The rule drew a rebuke last summer of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. …
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** The Biden administration announced it would delay part of its signature climate plan to slash planet-warming pollution from the power sector. The Environmental Protection Agency said it would carve existing gas plants out of a proposed regulation to cut emissions from power plants. ** The Biden administration finalized energy efficiency regulations targeting residential clothes washers and dryers …
Appeals Court moves Oklahoma’s lawsuit against EPA to D.C.
Oklahoma’s legal challenge of the EPA’s rejection last year of the state’s plan to adequately address its contributions to air-quality problems in downwind states, is headed to the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals. Attorney General Gentner Drummond along with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, owner of a coal-fired electric generating plant in Hugo, filed an …
Energy quick reads
** Wall Street’s top regulator will vote on March 6 on whether to adopt rules requiring U.S.-listed companies to report climate-related risks, the agency said in a notice on Wednesday, in a potentially major overhaul of U.S. disclosure rules. ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) decision to step down as Senate GOP leader, which he …
Energy quick reads
** The American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas lobbying group, is petitioning to eliminate the Biden administration’s pause on new approvals for natural gas exports. The organization, along with other trade groups, filed what’s known as a “petition for rehearing” on the pause. Such a petition is not a lawsuit, but it could be thefirst …
$1 billion in new EPA funding includes mining site near Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site
The latest energy funding from the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency includes more than $1 billion in a third and final wave for cleanup projects at more than 100 Superfund sites across the country. One of the projects is a mining site in southeast Kansas and adjacent to the Tar Creek Superfund site in …