All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2018 // Low risk, but low readiness.That’s the assessment for Long Beach, Calif., a city that’s close to my heart. For those who love numbers, the city has a risk score of 49.48, and a readiness score of 47.01. Not...
Oct 25 2018 // Brenda Austin was worried when her son, Casey, told her he planned to work in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield in early 2013.“Don’t worry. I’ll be in a safe spot,” he told her when he left their...
Oct 24 2018 // Three years ago, Allen Startz found himself in an unwanted kinship with thousands of other oilfield workers in South Texas’ Eagle Ford shale — laid off with few prospects nearby.The Houston Chronicle reports he...
Oct 22 2018 // Microsoft Corp. has helped develop a way to protect corporate buyers of clean power from electricity prices that go up and down with the weather.The company is using a risk-management tool called a volume-firming agreement...
Oct 16 2018 // A group of young Americans suing the federal government over lack of action to fight climate change can proceed with their lawsuit, but U.S. President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant, a federal judge ruled on...
Oct 15 2018 // It’s not the largest of agencies and it’s certainly not located in the largest of cities, but Bryan Insurance Agency (BIA) in Graham, Texas, (population around 9,000) is a very big deal to the people who work...
Oct 11 2018 // A report out earlier this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesn’t say a whole lot about insurance, but the implications for the industry are hard to ignore.Chief among those implications is...
Oct 9 2018 // Michael is forecast to become the second hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in a month as it heads toward Florida with winds of 90 miles per hour.The fast-moving storm has already sent cotton prices to a one-week high...
Oct 2 2018 // National wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agent Worldwide Facilities has partnered with Petro Guardian, a lightning and static protection installation service provider for oil and gas facilities, to...
Oct 1 2018 // Five years and almost $100 million later, cleanup is complete on a massive oil pipeline leak in North Dakota that has been called one of the biggest onshore spills in U.S. history, industry and state officials said.The...
Sep 27 2018 // Businesses should prepare for the physical consequences of a warming planet, according to a new report out from Zurich Insurance Group.The report, “Managing the impacts of climate change: risk management...
Sep 27 2018 // National wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agent, Worldwide Facilities, is teaming up with Petro Guardian, a turnkey lightning and static protection installation service provider for oil and gas...
Sep 25 2018 // A group of the world’s top oil and gas companies pledged on Monday to slash emissions of a potent greenhouse gas by a fifth by 2025 in an effort to battle climate change.The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI),...
Sep 21 2018 // Five years and almost $100 million later, cleanup is complete on a massive oil pipeline leak in North Dakota that has been called one of the biggest onshore spills in U.S. history, industry and state officials said.The...
Sep 20 2018 // North Dakota regulators are considering relaxing rules that require shippers to remove the most volatile gases from oil before it’s loaded onto train cars.The rules, which were fought by the energy industry, took...
Sep 20 2018 // India’s Chennai Petroleum will stop processing Iranian crude oil from October to keep its insurance coverage once new sanctions by the United States against Iran go into effect, three sources familiar with the issue...
Sep 17 2018 // The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has become what is believed to be the first U.S. municipal body to try to force insurance companies to stop insuring and investing in fossil fuels.In July, the board voted unanimously...
Sep 13 2018 // A handful of consumer and climate groups are calling on the insurance industry to ditch fossil fuels as part of a new campaign called Insure Our Future.The entreaty came on the eve of this week’s Global Climate...
Sep 10 2018 // A California jury has found the Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline company guilty on criminal charges of fouling state waters and harming wildlife in a major oil spill three years ago along the Pacific shoreline...
Sep 7 2018 // A lawsuit alleges that negligence by the owners of Wisconsin’s only oil refinery caused an explosion and fire that injured 36 people and caused a mandatory evacuation in the city of Superior.The class action lawsuit...