Author: Breanne Deppisch

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its final renewable fuel standard on Wednesday for U.S. vehicles, increasing the amount of biofuels that U.S. refiners must blend into their fuel mix over the next three years as part of its broader embrace of low-carbon fuels and effort to slash transportation emissions. The new set rule increases biofuel…

The Texas grid operator asked residents to conserve electricity and raise their thermostats by several degrees on Tuesday in an effort to avoid power outages amid a searing heat wave and record-breaking demand forecasts. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees roughly 90% of the Texas power grid, issued a “Weather Watch” on Tuesday…

Above-average snowfall and rain in the West this year, combined with an infusion of federal funds for forestry and fire prevention work, has afforded the region a reprieve from intense wildfires as the season begins, and as Canada experiences what is on track to be its worst fire season on record. Weather has played a…

Global oil demand is slated to peak before the end of the decade, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, a milestone it attributes to investments in clean energy sources, particularly for electric vehicles, and a drop in oil demand growth from China. In its new 2023 medium-term oil market forecast, published…

The CIA warned Ukraine last year that it objected to any plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines linking Russia and Germany, nearly three months before the lines were sabotaged, according to new reports from U.S., Dutch, and German news outlets. The alleged plot was shared with the United States in a memo…

A Dutch military intelligence agency tipped off the CIA last June about Ukraine’s alleged plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, prompting the U.S. to warn Kyiv not to move forward with its plans, according to new reports from Dutch and German broadcasters. The new report comes nearly 10…

Heavy smoke conditions choking major United States cities have thrust Canada’s wildfire response efforts into the spotlight, prompting fresh allegations that it is ill-prepared and underfunded to manage what is on track to be its worst-ever fire season. Critics have also blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for repeatedly invoking climate change, saying that the…

The United States was reportedly told by a European spy agency that the Ukrainian military planned to attack the Nord Stream gas pipelines covertly three months before they were bombed. The intelligence would mean that, for nearly a year, the U.S. and other European allies had a basis to suspect Kyiv in the sabotage. ESG…

Gas prices in the United States are slated to rise as early as mid-week this week on the news of Saudi Arabia‘s new oil production cuts announced this weekend. The kingdom broke with other OPEC+ members Sunday in announcing an additional voluntary oil production cut of 1 million barrels per day in July, a 10%…

The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge on Monday to a court order banning fracking off California’s coast, delivering a blow to oil companies, which argued that the moratorium would undermine oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf. The decision lets stand a June 2022 decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court…