Latest Energy Headlines
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How One County Plans to Vet Insurers for Fossil Fuel Investments
Feb 20 2020 // “We have front row seats,” said Elise Jones, a Boulder County commissioner. Jones along with two other commissioners oversees government affairs in the Colorado county of 330,000 or so at the base of the...
Salvage Firm Wants Judge to Halt Removal of Capsized Cargo Ship in Georgia
Feb 19 2020 // A maritime salvage company is asking a federal judge to stop the Coast Guard and a rival firm from carrying out their plans to remove a cargo ship that overturned five months ago on the Georgia coast. The multiagency team...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 Was Bigger Than Satellite Images Showed
Feb 14 2020 // Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the known satellite footprint of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new study. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel school of Marine and...
Report: 6 Texas Refineries Releasing Cancer-Causing Pollutant Above Federal Threshold
Feb 10 2020 // An environmental nonprofit has released an analysis of first-of-its-kind air monitoring data that shows benzene levels at 10 U.S. petroleum refineries exceeded limits Eight years ago, two environmental nonprofits sued the...
Daughter of Worked Killed in Texas Oil Well Blast Sues Chesapeake Energy, Other Firms
Feb 6 2020 // Chesapeake Energy Corp. and three oilfield service firms were sued by the daughter of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when a Texas oil well exploded in flames in late January. The wrongful death suit seeks at least $1...
3rd Texas Oil Well Worker Dies of Injuries from Blowout
Feb 5 2020 // A third worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said. Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said in a statement the company is “deeply saddened” by the...
2nd Worker Injured in Texas Oil Well Blowout Dies
Feb 3 2020 // A second worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said. Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said the worker died Thursday evening at a hospital. Another worker was killed in...
1 Worker Dead, Others Injured in Texas Oil Well Blowout
Jan 31 2020 // One person was killed and three others were injured on Jan. 29 in the blowout of a Central Texas oil well. All four were contractors working at a Chesapeake Energy well site on a county road near Deanville, Texas, 28 miles...
Oil Giant Total Sued by 14 French Cities, NGOs over Failure to Cut Carbon Emissions
Jan 28 2020 // Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming. The legal challenge is the...
Miami Aims To Be Carbon Neutral by 2050 Under ‘Climate Ready’ Plan
Jan 28 2020 // With sea level rise already lapping at its door, the city of Miami made its first significant commitment to address the root cause of climate change, not just the symptoms. The city government plans to go carbon neutral by...
Energy-Hungry Data Storage Is Another Culprit of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Jan 27 2020 // Everyone has seen the warning. At the bottom of the email, it says: “Please consider the environment before printing.” But for those who care about global warming, you might want to consider not writing so many...
Oklahoma Oil Rig Explosion Wrongful Death Trial Underway
Jan 27 2020 // The wrongful death trial against an oilfield equipment contractor in connection with an explosion and fire last year that killed five men in southeastern Oklahoma began in mid-January. Attorneys for the families of Parker...
Making Big Oil Pay for Climate Change May Be Impossible
Jan 24 2020 // Exxon Mobil dodged a bullet last month when a judge rejected a novel climate-change lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general. The case began with a promise from state officials that there would be a historic...
Court Dashes Teens’ Hopes, Says Suit Can’t Force Climate Action by Government
Jan 20 2020 // Climate change should be addressed by Congress and the electorate, not the courts, a federal appeals panel ruled in ending a lawsuit brought on behalf of young people who sought to force the government to draw up a plan to...
Oklahoma Oil Rig Explosion Wrongful Death Trial Begins in Oklahoma
Jan 17 2020 // The wrongful death trial against a oilfield equipment contractor in connection with a January 2018 explosion and fire that killed five men in southeastern Oklahoma is underway. The McAlester News-Capital reports that...
New York Governor Lays out Aggressive Climate Change Plan
Jan 9 2020 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an aggressive climate change-fighting campaign for his state that includes a $3-billion bond act that would be put on the ballot this November. Cuomo, who says that money would go to...
Trump Wants to Speed Infrastructure Projects by Dropping Climate Impact Assessment
Jan 9 2020 // The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a plan to speed permitting for major infrastructure projects like oil pipelines, including by dropping consideration of their potential impact on climate change. The plan,...
3 Hurt in Explosion at South Dakota Petroleum Distributor
Jan 2 2020 // Three people were hurt in an explosion at a South Dakota petroleum distributor on Dec. 30, the company’s co-owner said. The explosion happened around 2 p.m. in the truck maintenance shop of Harms Oil just west of...
The Hartford Joins Insurers Limiting Fossil Fuel Investments, Underwriting
Dec 23 2019 // The Hartford became the latest insurance carrier to cut back on business it does with the fossil fuel industry out of concern over climate change. The company announced it will no longer insure or invest in companies that...
Pirates Attack Oil Tanker in West Africa, Kidnapping Another Crew
Dec 17 2019 // An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped, the latest in a string of incidents highlighting the security risks to shipping in the region. The vessel...
