Top U.S. senators from both parties on Thursday grilled Democratic energy regulators who recently approved guidelines for approving new natural gas projects that allow consideration of environmental justice, landowner and climate issues. The three Democrats on the five-member Federal Energy …
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Energy Transfer LP’s Dakota Access Pipeline, letting stand a ruling that required a new federal environmental analysis and left the pipeline vulnerable to being shut down. Making no comment, the justices refused …
The Washington Department of Ecology is penalizing British Petroleum $100,000 for two Olympic Pipeline gasoline spills in a Seattle suburb. BP did some construction on the Olympic pipeline in Woodinville on Feb. 21, 2020, and after completing a phase of …
The Monsanto Co. pleaded guilty to illegally using and storing agricultural chemicals in Hawaii, and will pay $12 million in fines. Monsanto, now owned by German pharmaceutical company Bayer, agreed to plead guilty to the charges in December. U.S. District …
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a statewide lawsuit against Walmart for the illegal disposal of hazardous waste. Bonta was joined by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and 12 district attorneys. The suit alleges that over the past …
A former official for a central Montana coal mine plead guilty to conspiring with others to not make required reports about workplace accidents that injured employees, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Montana said. Dale Lee Musgrave of Pompeys Pillar, who …
The ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off the Southern California coast this fall did not have a fully functioning leak detection system at the time, according to a report obtained by The …
California regulators haven’t approved permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking since February, effectively phasing out the process ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2024 deadline to end it. The state’s Geologic Energy Management Division, known …
AT&T’s Pac Bell subsidiary has settled a lawsuit conservationists filed under a U.S. law more typically cited in Superfund cases, agreeing to spend up to $1.5 million to remove 8 miles of toxic telephone cables that were abandoned on the …
California officials on Monday said better communication and detection technologies could improve the state’s response to an oil spill like last month’s crude pipeline leak off the Orange County coast. State lawmakers held an oversight hearing in Costa Mesa to …
