Five spills, six months in operation
The Dakota Access pipeline leaked at least five times in 2017. The biggest was a 168-gallon leak near DAPL’s endpoint in Patoka, Illinois, on April 23.
Archive for year: 2018
$10 million LAPD electric BMWs appear unused or misused
The Los Angeles Police Department made a big deal about going green with a fleet of electric BMWs.
Trump fuel economy target set for March release, NHTSA head says
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will propose new fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks by the end of March, signaling how the Trump administration plans to alter ambitious automobile efficiency rules created under former President Barack Obama.
Vintage EPA photos reveal what Midwestern industrial cities looked like before the U.S. regulated pollution
Midwestern states like Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri are home to many coal-fired plants. A growing number of these plants are shutting down, partly due to the declining costs of renewables. According to one recent Moody’s Analytics report, the price of wind power has fallen so rapidly that it could soon replace coal-fired plants in the Midwest.
California’s climate fight gets harder soon, and the big culprit is cars
By most measures, California has earned the right to brag about how much it has cleaned up its environmental act. The air in much of smog-shrouded Southern California has been scrubbed. A passenger car for sale here today is 99 percent cleaner than one on offer in the early 1970s.
Oil price rally will not persuade OPEC to end production cuts, analyst says
The recent uptick in oil prices is not likely to be enough to persuade OPEC to end production cuts this summer, Richard Mallinson, geopolitical analyst at Energy Aspects, told CNBC on Friday.
Drilling off Florida is still on the table, Interior official says
In a surprise statement undercutting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s announcement last week that he was exempting Florida from President Trump’s offshore drilling plan, a senior Interior Department official said Friday that Florida’s coastal waters had not been excluded after all.
China says sunken Iranian tanker may now be leaking heavy oil
A sunken Iranian oil tanker may be leaking heavy bunker fuel as well as light oil off the east coast of China and the best remedy was to recover the vessel, officials said on Friday.
ISIS is lighting oil wells on fire as they retreat, and no one is paying attention
A burning oil field is a terrible thing. The fire typically takes months to put out. The thick black smoke blots out the sky and the soot coats everything—buildings, streets, people’s skin. White sheep turn completely black.
Crisis-hit Venezuela’s oil output plummets in 2017 to decades low
Venezuela’s crude oil production fell nearly 13 percent last year, according to figures released by OPEC on Thursday, hitting a 28-year annual low that points to a deepening economic crisis and increased chances of a debt default.
