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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week denied Cheniere Energy Inc.’s request for an exemption from a reinstated air pollution rule that will now force the company to work toward compliance.  Cheniere spokesperson Eben Burnham-Snyder said the agency’s decision will likely result in “unwarranted expenditures,” but the company does not expect it to have a…

This week’s Supreme Court ruling in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be interpreted as a warning to federal agencies not to overstep their explicit statutory authority in crafting regulations, according to legal and energy experts. At the heart of the case was whether EPA had legal authority under section…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Biden took action to unwind a rule that curbs the power of states, territories and Native American tribes to block natural gas pipelines and other energy projects that could pollute waterways. For 50 years, states and tribes had authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to protect…

Even as President Biden has stressed the short-term need to increase oil and natural gas output and expedite liquefied natural gas (LNG) project development, the 2023 budget released by the administration Monday focuses almost entirely on transitioning away from fossil fuels. The president’s 2023 budget request for $5.3 trillion total includes funds for the Department…

The United States is set to impose sweeping limits on methane emissions from oil and gas operations as the Biden administration ups its commitment to tackle global warming. Once enacted, the rule’s impact on natural gas and oil prices from 2023-2035 would cost “pennies per bbl of oil or Mcf of gas,” the Environmental Protection…

A U.S. district judge has rebuffed Trump-era limits on the scope of the Clean Water Act (CWA), vacating a rule that the Biden administration had already targeted for revision as part of broader efforts to strengthen federal environmental protections. An order handed down by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona Monday vacated…

The Biden administration is moving to give states and tribal authorities more leeway in approving or denying permits for projects that include oil and natural gas pipelines that cross waterways. Under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), states and authorized tribes have allowed to grant, deny or waive certification for proposed federal…

The House on Friday voted to restore Obama-era controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector that had been partially rescinded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump administration. The measure passed by a margin of 229-191 under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) after 52-42 passage by the Senate, and…

A federal appeals court struck down a Trump administration rule intended to relax federal oversight of air pollution from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. The reversal of the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, concluded that Environmental Protection Agency officials under…