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5 energy issues to watch in Biden's budget
The budget request offered clues on the administration's plans on everything from pipelines to fusion. → Read More
Manchin deal might not save Mountain Valley pipeline
Experts say permitting changes sought by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin could help the project without guaranteeing its completion. → Read More
Feds subpoena troubled mine safety commission, chair says
Two top staffers at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission have been put on leave, as the FBI and prosecutors subpoena documents. → Read More
'Groundhog Day': Biden, GOP revive decades-old energy fight
Biden administration officials and Republicans are using old talking points on energy. Here's why it matters. → Read More
Hydrogen could fuel U.S. energy transition. But is it safe?
The Biden administration, companies and environmentalists are eyeing hydrogen to achieve ambitious climate targets, but safety concerns are emerging about the fuel. → Read More
OIL AND GAS: 'Environmental racism'? Tenn. pipeline sparks uproar
The Memphis City Council yesterday stepped into the path of a proposed oil pipeline through the Tennessee city, casting its opposition as a fight against "environmental racism." → Read More
CORONAVIRUS: Is pipeline construction 'essential' in a pandemic?
A pipeline fight is highlighting a growing debate over what type of energy employment should be considered "essential" during a public health crisis. → Read More
NATURAL GAS: Landslides, explosions spark fear in pipeline country
Pipeline builders are hitting rough terrain as they cross the Appalachian Mountains. Landslides have caused blasts, ruptures and construction problems. Companies say the lines are safe, but critics say the accidents show they shouldn't be built. → Read More
CAMPAIGN 2018: Fracking falls from Dems' sights as they eye majority
The last time Democrats controlled the House, "fracking" was better known as a cuss word on the science fiction show "Battlestar Galactica" than an oil drilling process. → Read More
PIPELINES: Deadly Mass. gas blasts highlight dangers of aging system
A gas explosion yesterday that destroyed dozens of buildings and killed at least one person in Massachusetts came after years of concern about the state's aging pipeline system and amid efforts to upgrade it. → Read More
SAFETY: Pipeline in fatal blast had a dime‑sized hole in it
A natural gas pipeline that exploded in Texas, killing a 3-year-old girl, had been leaking gas through a dime-sized hole for some time, records show. → Read More
EPA: Trump team phasing out oil field enforcement initiative
Trump administration officials at EPA are phasing out the agency's enforcement focus on animal waste pollution and the oil and gas industry. → Read More
EPA: Wheeler's not the Big Oil guy some imagine
As much as new EPA chief Andrew Wheeler is associated with the fossil fuel industry, there's one aspect of it where he has little private-sector experience: oil and gas. → Read More
PIPELINES: Volunteer brigade deploys drones and maps
MONTEREY, Va. — Rick Lambert steps off a dirt path and strides between the trees to a hole in the side of a hill. Sometime long ago, water hollowed out the fragile karst geology underlying this farm and created a deep vertical cave. → Read More
PIPELINES: EPA and PHMSA clashed on Enbridge spill penalty
Federal pipeline regulators touted a "record" penalty — $3.7 million — when they fined Enbridge Energy Partners in 2012 for spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. But U.S. EPA's top enforcer, blindsided by their announcement, complained privately to them that the amount was "very small." → Read More
EPA: GOP media firm hired for Pruitt's 'year in review' report
U.S. EPA hired Republican campaign consultants to help produce a report touting Administrator Scott Pruitt's accomplishments. → Read More
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: Now it's oilmen who say fracking could harm groundwater
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — It's no longer just environmentalists who suspect hydraulic fracturing is contaminating groundwater. Oil companies here in Oklahoma — ones that produce from older vertical wells — have raised that prospect as they complain about the practices of their larger brethren. → Read More
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: Now it's oilmen who say fracking could harm groundwater
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — It's no longer just environmentalists who suspect hydraulic fracturing is contaminating groundwater. Oil companies here in Oklahoma — ones that produce from older vertical wells — have raised that prospect as they complain about the practices of their larger brethren. → Read More
EPA: Pruitt declined to prosecute fraud allegations as Okla. AG
When his investigators dug into corruption allegations at a Superfund site, Oklahoma State Auditor Gary Jones believed they'd found criminal wrongdoing. → Read More
EPA: Pruitt's Superfund point man penalized by banking regulators
A former banker who is now U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's point man for Superfund has been fined $125,000 by federal banking regulators and barred from banking activity. → Read More