The company that turned cow manure (poop) into natural gas discovered it’s not as profitable as it expected. NLC Energy, a company that owns and operates renewable natural gas facilities that convert manure and other organic waste has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. NLC Energy Denmark LLC filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. …
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** U.S. liquefied natural gas exports have reached record levels, driven by strong demand from both domestic industrial consumers and European buyers. Despite increasing natural gas production, the growth of U.S. LNG exports is threatened by insufficient pipeline capacity to transport gas to liquefaction facilities reports OilPrice.com. ** Colorado has become the first state to …
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** Major data center developer and operator Equinix has entered into several advanced nuclear electricity deals, including power purchase agreements for fission energy and pre-ordering microreactors for its operations, the company said on Thursday. ** Arizona regulators vote to repeal rules requiring utilities to obtain 15% of their electricity from renewable sources, drawing fire from …
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** President Donald Trump named David Rosner as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he has served since mid-2025 as a commissioner, the agency said ** In 2024, the United States exported about 30% of its domestic primary energy production. Nearly all of the exports were fossil fuels destined for other countries in North America, Europe, or Asia. The United States …
Final legal filings in two decade poultry lawsuit go to Tulsa federal judge
Final briefs in Oklahoma’s 20-year fight with Arkansas and Oklahoma poultry growers over pollution of the Illinois River were due on Monday in Tulsa U.S. District Court. It’s the case started in 2005 by then-Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and carried out by current Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Drummond’s recently proposed final judgment in the …
Measuring the spectrum of Occupational Emissions
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank has released a study regarding occupations and their exposure to emissions-intensive activities. In other words, which occupations offer the greatest and the least exposure to greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Those activities are reported to be the major contributors to climate change. …
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** An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured more than 10 others. The CEO has vowed to find out what caused Monday’s blast while the workers’ union says it will make sure there’s a thorough investigation. ** Five countries account for more than two-thirds of the world’s total nuclear electricity generation …
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** Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the administration is reviewing previously published National Climate Assessments and will publish updated reports, calling prior versions unfair in their “broad-based assessments of climate change.” ** According to TechCrunch, Tesla’s sales numbers for the Cybertruck plummeted in the second quarter of 2025 and were not only beaten by the Ford …
Stripper Well group stands behind Trump’s environmental actions
The National Stripper Well Association came out this week with a statement saying it strongly supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) historic decision to rescind the Endangerment Finding, a long-standing regulatory trigger for carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas restrictions that the organization claims has disproportionately harmed small, independent energy producers for over a decade. …
EPA stands by Oklahoma Corporation Commission in environmental enforcement powers on Indian land
In a letter from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Oklahoma leaders are being told they do have environmental regulatory power over all Indian territory in the state with the exception of Osage County. Zeldin informed Gov. Kevin Stitt in mid-May after the Cheyenne-Arapaho tribe created its own environmental division and notified oil and gas …