Health, Safety & Environment

Occidental Partnership To Build Permian Basin CO2 Removal Plant

Occidental Petroleum is partnering with Canada-based Carbon Engineering to build a new multimillion-dollar direct air capture plant in the Permian Basin.

Invenergy Affiliate Wins Approval For $400 Million Wind Project In South Dakota

The approval is subject to 40 conditions to address issues including road conditions during construction, habitats of endangered species, land restoration, and detecting and reacting to ice conditions on turbine blades.

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Trump Administration To Relax Offshore Safety Rules Sparked By 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

Scott Angelle, head of BSEE, said in an op-ed in Louisiana’s The Advocate newspaper on May 2 the agency had revised 68 of 342 provisions of the Obama administration’s well control rule, and put forward a “safer, smarter improved rule.”

New York Kicks Off Storage Incentive Program, Allocating $280 Million Worth Of Funding

Bulk storage projects can avail the funding as a fixed incentive amount that declines each year through 2025, or a utility bulk storage request for proposals scheduled to be issued later this year.

US Oil-Storage Industry Fines Soar On Air, Water Violations

This year, the average penalty is $218,000, up from $52,000 in 2018. The total number of actions for violations of Clean Air and Clean Water Act regulations was 24, up from 17 by this time last year, the data showed.

US House Lawmaker Proposes Bill To Establish Energy Storage Tax Credit

The ITC will remain at 30% for projects started through 2019, reduce to 26 percent in 2020, then to 22% in 2021. The commercial and utility credit will remain at 10% after 2021, while the residential credit will sunset.

Proposed Regs On Track To Hobble Bakken Oil Transport

Will tighter restrictions on oil vapor pressure make crude-by-rail safer? The science isn’t in yet, but the legislative train in Washington State may have already left the station.

US Regulator Rules Out Exxon Mobil Shareholder Vote On Climate Resolution

Exxon Mobil is not required to let its shareholders vote on setting greenhouse gas emissions targets, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Colorado Oil And Gas: Battleground State

The Colorado oil and gas industry is on the state’s endangered list, fighting a running battle with activists intent on stopping fracking. Now the industry faces renewed legislative challenges.

Offshore Drilling Center Stage As Lawmakers Grill Interior Pick

A group of Democratic senators sent a letter to David Bernhardt earlier this month calling on him to release the details of the Interior Department’s new five-year offshore drilling plan.