"Supreme Court: Justices Reject Pipeline, Wildfire Cases"
"The Supreme Court will not wade into a closely watched battle over a practice that allows natural gas pipeline developers to access private lands before paying."
"The Supreme Court will not wade into a closely watched battle over a practice that allows natural gas pipeline developers to access private lands before paying."
"Questions surrounding Energy Secretary Rick Perry are not preventing him from engaging European leaders this week to promote U.S. energy cooperation. He's also denying reports of his departure from the administration."
"Plastic production really began in earnest in the 1950s. It’s hard to remember, but we once got along without it. Of course, plastic offered great convenience, and its production skyrocketed."
"For the fifth week since the blowout began, a large flare is still burning at the site of GEP Haynesville, LLC’s blown out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The blowout occurred on August 30, shortly after the company began a frack job, igniting two adjacent wells. A state official estimated that efforts to contain the blowout could take another two months, or more."
"One of the West's largest utilities said yesterday it plans to retire about two-thirds of its coal units by 2030 and replace the vast majority of that power with renewable energy."
"The Supreme Court today agreed to take up a heated dispute over a natural gas pipeline's crossing of the Appalachian Trail."
"The Trump administration plans to boost biofuel blending in the nation's fuel supplies beginning next year, while continuing to let small petroleum refineries avoid the mandates in certain circumstances, officials said today [Friday]."
"Murray Energy Corp., the U.S. coal giant that had pressed the Trump administration for help averting bankruptcy, may be headed toward default."
"A recent federal court ruling could give states more authority to oppose natural gas pipeline projects by limiting the controversial use of eminent domain—the mandatory sale of private or state-owned land for public use."
"Pennsylvania, one of the nation's largest coal and natural gas producing states, is moving to join the Northeast's carbon market. It would mark the largest expansion of the multistate initiative since its inception a decade ago and a milestone in the drive by states to counter the impact of the Trump administration's retreat from climate action."