Latest Energy Headlines
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Alabama Medical Marijuana Bill Headed to Governor
Apr 29 2016 // The Alabama legislature on Wednesday voted to decriminalize medicinal marijuana oil possession. In a 95-4 vote in the House of Representatives and a 29-3 vote in the Senate, legislators supported a bill supporters say is a...
EPA Nails Tesoro’s Washington Oil Refinery for Safety Violations
Apr 28 2016 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes, Wash. nearly $720,000 for alleged safety violations. The EPA said last week it filed a complaint seeking penalties for violations...
New York Urges Tighter Rules, More Insurance for Oil Trains
Apr 27 2016 // New York state’s comptroller urged federal authorities Tuesday to strengthen safety measures against oil spills and require trains to carry sufficient insurance to cover cleanup costs from major...
California Public Utilities Commission Oks New Ridesharing Regulations
Apr 25 2016 // The California Public Utilities Commission has approved new regulations for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft, including where identifying logos should go and stricter vehicle inspections. The San Francisco Examiner...
U.S. Finalizes Offshore Oil Safety Rules
Apr 18 2016 // The Obama administration last Thursday unveiled new oil well control rules to prevent the kind of blowout that happened six years ago on a BP Plc rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety...
Oil Spill in South Dakota Forces Shut Down of Keystone Pipeline
Apr 7 2016 // The Keystone pipeline will likely remain shut down for the rest of the week while officials investigate an apparent oil spill in southeastern South Dakota. Oil covered a 300-square-foot area in a farm field ditch 4 miles...
$2.6M Fine Against Exxon over Arkansas Oil Spill Upheld
Apr 3 2016 // The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has upheld its $2.6 million fine against Exxon Mobile Pipeline Co. over an oil spill in central Arkansas. The agency has notified Exxon Mobil of its decision....
U.S. Seismic Risk Maps Now Include Earthquakes Caused by Humans
Mar 28 2016 // Earthquakes caused by human activity will now be included in the U.S. Geological Survey’s seismic risk maps, the agency said on Monday after a sharp rise in temblors linked to wastewater disposal wells used by the...
Wyoming Losing Workers Due to Energy Downturn
Mar 28 2016 // More people are leaving Wyoming than are coming to the state in the wake of thousands of jobs being lost in the fossil fuels extraction industry, and it’s a trend that an economist doesn’t see reversing until...
P&I Clubs Plug Shortfall in Iran Oil Cover; US Reinsurers Still Barred by Sanctions
Mar 23 2016 // Ship insurers have stepped in to help plug a shortfall in cover for transporting Iranian oil resulting from the fact that U.S. reinsurers are still restrained by Washington’s sanctions, according to officials...
Storms Set Oil Field Equipment on Fire Near Houston
Mar 21 2016 // Lingering thunderstorms were blamed for a fire that damaged an oil field equipment site on March 19 near Houston and power outages in South Texas that left more than 50,000 homes and businesses without...
Unknown Amount of Oil from Leaking Cargo Ship in Southern California Harbor
Mar 15 2016 // Authorities say a large cargo ship has leaked an unknown amount of oil in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Coast Guard says the leak was reported Sunday evening, where an oily sheen was visible near the vessel Istra...
Judge: BP not Required to Pay Moratorium-Related Oil Industry Losses
Mar 14 2016 // A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that BP does not have to pay for economic losses other businesses suffered when the federal government shut down deep-water drilling in the wake of BP’s catastrophic 2010 oil spill...
Federal Judge Rules BP Absolved from U.S. Lawsuits Over Drilling Ban
Mar 11 2016 // BP Plc does not have to face U.S. lawsuits by energy and drilling companies over losses they suffered from an offshore drilling ban imposed soon after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District...
Oklahoma Bill Would Confirm Oil & Gas Regulators’ Authority
Mar 10 2016 // A proposal that would confirm state regulators’ authority to bind companies to their directives has passed the state House and heads to the Senate. The state House of Representatives passed the bill that would...
New Mexico Court Revives Neighborhood Oil Contamination Case
Mar 7 2016 // More than 200 current and former residents who claim decades of oil and gas operations led to contamination that spurred a rash of illnesses in their southeastern New Mexico neighborhood will be able to pursue their case...
California’s Porter Ranch Blowout Highlights Evacuation Risk
Mar 7 2016 // Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series on the oil and gas industry. The first article covered the important changes that occurred in 2015 and the significance of the Porter Ranch, Calif., blowout that...
Suit Alleges Texas Lawyers Bankrolled BP Oil-Spill Scam
Mar 4 2016 // Two high-profile Texas attorneys were sued by a fishing boat captain who said they were involved in a scam to cheat BP Plc out of millions of dollars with false compensation claims for the Gulf of Mexico oil...
Louisiana Flood Board Appeals Dismissal of Suit Against Oil Companies
Mar 2 2016 // A lawyer for a flood protection agency tried on Feb. 29 to revive a closely-watched lawsuit alleging oil and natural gas companies are responsible for destroying Louisiana’s coast, telling an appeals court that a...
Iran Still Faces Curbs on Oil Exports from Ongoing Insurance Issues: Oil Official
Mar 2 2016 // Iran still faces constraints on oil exports as buyers are cautious about boosting trade immediately because of banking and ship insurance difficulties, a senior Iranian oil official said, despite seeing a...
