** Authorities have recovered the body of a fifth victim in the Baltimore bridge collapse five weeks ago, officials said Wednesday. The victim has been identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, according to the Unified Command, a joint task force composed of police, coast guard and other government agencies to respond to the …
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** Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he will lead a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to undo the Biden administration’s final rule on permitting announced Tuesday morning. The Energy Department rule alters the permitting process to streamline categorical exclusions, or those that are considered not to have enough of an environmental impact to require a …
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** The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation, capping a project that cost billions more and took years longer than originally projected. Georgia Power Co. and fellow owners announced the milestone Monday for Plant Vogtle’s Unit 4, which joins an earlier new reactor southeast of Augusta in splitting atoms to make …
Devon Energy doesn’t see changes in challenges from Biden administration’s stricter environmental regulations
Nearly every major oil and gas company in the U.S. is keenly aware of the challenges thrown on its by the Biden administration’s anti-oil and gas regulations. Take Devon Energy for instance. In a recent filing of an annual Form 10-K report to security holders with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Oklahoma City …
House members move to kill Biden’s anti-gas car regulations at EPA
Led by Georgia Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde, some 30 House Republican Representatives are going after President Biden’s latest regulations to put gas-powered vehicles out of business. No Oklahoma House members were part of the effort on Friday to file the bill under the Congressional Review Act, a law dating back nearly three decades that …
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** Exxon Mobil Corp on Friday missed analysts’ estimates with a 28% year-on-year drop in first quarter profits as weaker refining margins and lower natural gas prices offset volume gains. The largest U.S. oil company, which is in the process of closing a $60 billion deal for top shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources, posted first-quarter earnings …
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** The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a highly anticipated suite of rules to cut hazardous, planet-warming pollution generated by power plants in one of its most significant environment and climate actions to-date. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules will compel coal and new natural gas power plants to either cut or capture 90% of their climate pollution by 2032. ** The …
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** Tesla reported net income of $1.1 billion for the January-to-March period, down 55% from the year prior. Revenue fell 9% to $21.3 billion. In contrast, GM reported a 24% rise in first-quarter profit and lifted its profit outlook for the year, as the automaker leans into strong demand for gas-powered trucks and SUVs while trimming investment in future …
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** For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos. Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old, the probe has shown multiple …
Mitchell Talks Energy With Jerry Bohnen—podcast explores energy bills that aren’t really dead
So you think some of the controversial bills in the Oklahoma legislature including the so-called ROFR/NOFR measure are dead? Think again as this week Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen explain why the term ‘dead for the session’ is untrue and which energy-related bills deemed lifeless in April will likely regenerate in May. Plus a …