Environmental

The battle lines over proposed rules governing new sources of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry continued to form, with nine states, the city of Chicago and a half-dozen environmental groups lining up to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Government moves to crack down on methane emissions are fueling an environmental energy business niche developing in the western heartland of Canadian natural gas and oil production.

FERC has issued an environmental assessment (EA) for a trio of projects to enable Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) to transport up to an additional 662,000 Dth/d of natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales on its mainline from Pennsylvania to points in Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi.

The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by environmentalists who want stricter U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of oil/natural gas industry waste.

ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. has reached a settlement with Pennsylvania Attorney General (AG) Kathleen Kane’s office nearly three years after the state filed criminal charges against the company for an alleged discharge of wastewater at a drilling site in 2010.

Six years after launching an effort to modify how federal agencies conduct National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews with regard to climate change, the Obama administration unveiled final guidance it said is designed to quantify the impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The PennEast Pipeline received a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) from FERC Friday, bringing plans for the natural gas pipeline, which would traverse the Marcellus Shale, one step closer to reality.

The Obama administration’s upcoming review of 2017-2025 model year light-duty vehicle fuel-efficiency and emission standards needs to be reaffirmed and continued, representatives from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said Monday.

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, has urged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for previously issued oil/natural gas leases in the White River National Forest in Colorado to consider new reserve estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).