All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2017 // When President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to pare emissions from U.S. power plants two years ago, he stressed the long-term health benefits: 3,600 fewer premature deaths, 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children and a...
Oct 7 2017 // Oil companies were heading back into the Gulf of Mexico and working to restore operations after Hurricane Nate fizzled out over the U.S. South on Sunday.While an estimated 93 percent of U.S. oil production in the Gulf was...
Oct 6 2017 // Tropical Storm Nate, which has already shut oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened as it continued north on a path that’ll bring it ashore in the U.S. by week’s end.Nate was about 115 miles...
Sep 27 2017 // Saudi Arabia’s decision to end a driving ban for women is likely to save families billions of dollars, boost industries from car sales to insurance, and reassure investors that the kingdom’s push to diversify...
Sep 24 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of “unidentified, potentially hazardous material” from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during...
Sep 22 2017 // Lawyers expect a spate of force majeure contract lawsuits after Hurricane Harvey tore through Southeast Texas and parts of Louisiana last month, paralyzing a fifth of U.S. fuel output and pushing some oil production...
Sep 21 2017 // The former chief administrative law judge at California’s powerful utility regulator said this week she was fired for cooperating with investigators looking into collusion between regulators and executives from...
Sep 21 2017 // California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change, according to...
Sep 18 2017 // More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances, a...
Sep 11 2017 // AXIS Insurance has named Christina Tom as vice president and renewable energy underwriter. She will be based out of AXIS’ San Francisco office Tom joins AXIS Insurance’s global renewable energy team, where she...
Sep 4 2017 // A frightened truck driver dodging a barrage of bullets fired from the assault rifles of a drug-smuggling criminal gang doesn’t seem like the obvious description of the final stages of a cyber attack.But the real-life...
Aug 27 2017 // Key oil and gas facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast have temporarily shut down as Hurricane Harvey pounds the region with torrential rain and high winds, virtually assuring gasoline prices will rise in the storm’s...
Aug 23 2017 // Harvey, which could strengthen into the first hurricane to strike Texas since 2008, forced workers off Gulf of Mexico platforms, sent cotton rallying and has airlines preparing for flight disruptions.Tropical Storm Harvey,...
Aug 21 2017 // “While the decision to build the Ash Pond Complex is in the past, the consequences of that decision continue today, and it now falls on the Court to address them.”— U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in...
Aug 16 2017 // The disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production by injecting it deep into the ground has been linked to a dramatic increase in earthquake activity in Oklahoma since 2009. Injection rates have declined recently...
Aug 11 2017 // About $7 million in BP oil spill penalties will create 300 conservation jobs in Gulf of Mexico states.Jeff DeQuattro of The Nature Conservancy said that employment will ramp up over three years: 10 people working in each...
Aug 9 2017 // California Assembly members considered swing votes on legislation to reduce carbon emissions by charging polluters were among the top recipients of donations from oil companies, an analysis of campaign finance filings...
Aug 9 2017 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc will attempt on Friday to restart one of two crude units at Europe’s biggest oil refinery that were halted by a fire late last month, a person with knowledge of the matter said. European diesel...
Aug 8 2017 // New regulations designed to strengthen workplace and environmental safety at oil refineries across the state were finalized this week.The regulations, which take effect on Oct. 1, include recommendations of the...
Aug 7 2017 // Responding to top government officials in oil, gas and coal producing states that threatened to sue over his state’s climate initiatives, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has pretty much said: bring it...