** The worsening bottlenecks at the drought-stricken Panama Canal are pushing at least one US diesel shipper to sail around the tip of South America en route to Chile for the first time since 2020. The vessel Green Sky is hauling ultra-low sulfur diesel loaded at Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s Clifton Ridge terminal in Louisiana to …
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** The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Joe Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy. ** Nearly a decade after the Flint Water Crisis, the Biden administration is proposing to require the removal …
Did Biden make a blasphemous show to attack Colorado Congresswoman?
President Biden used a visit to a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Pueblo, Colorado to attack Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, calling her “one of the leaders of (the) extreme MAGA movement.” He even made a near blasphemous use of the sign of the cross to tear into the Representative. As Biden mentioned her name …
Headlines of energy stories
** Occidental Petroleum is one of the finalists in the auction for CrownRock, an energy producer in the west Texas area of the Permian basin, with a bid of more than $10 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. ** The U.S. Coast Guard expands its search for the source of last month’s …
Energy updates
** A next-generation geothermal plant backed by Google has started sending carbon-free electricity to the grid in Nevada, where the tech company operates some of its massive data centers. On Tuesday, Google and geothermal developer Fervo Energy said that electrons began flowing from the first-of-a-kind facility earlier this month reported Canary Media. ** Electricity in Kentucky is about to …
Headlines
** Gasoline prices have fallen for 60 consecutive days — the longest streak of declines in more than a year — letting American drivers pass on savings at the pump to consumer retailers during the US economy’s all-important holiday season. ** The Biden administration on Tuesday auctioned off 35,000 acres (14,164 hectares) of land in Wyoming …
Quick energy reads
** An oil spill believed to be caused by a pipeline rupture offLouisiana appears to rank among the 10 largest to affect American waters in 40 years of tracking. ** The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is certain to be the hottest ever …
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** An estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since Nov. 16, with emergency officials scrambling for nearly a week to locate the source of the leak and determine whether an underwater pipeline had ruptured off the Louisiana coast. ** Occidental Petroleum Corp, W&T Offshore Inc and Talos …
Poll shows opposition to solar and wind farms in a Kansas county
A survey of some of the residents of one Kansas county shows they are split on their support for renewable energy with the edge going to those who oppose wind and solar farms. The Shawnee County Planning Department carried out the survey of nearly 900 residents around the state capitol in Topeka and found …
Energy quick reads
** A United Nations report warned Monday that the Earth is on track to warm up to 2.9 degrees this century, nearly double the UN’s 1.5 threshold. ** Alaska’s congressional delegation introduces legislation that would reverse the Biden administration’s oil and gas drilling ban on 13 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope. ** U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …