Obama: Energy effort to help environment, military veterans
The Energy and Defense departments are extending to a total of 10 military bases nationwide a pilot program that teaches exiting service members how to install solar panels.
View ArticleAnadarko writes down $3.7 Billion in value from Utah field
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. reported its biggest quarterly loss in more than a decade after writing down the value of a single field in Utah by $3.7 billion.
View ArticleTesoro halts plans for Utah oil pipeline
Tesoro’s project, the Uinta Express Pipeline, was to have shipped thick waxy crude oil from Utah’s Uinta Basin to the company’s plant in Salt Lake City.
View ArticleWyoming judge to hear challenge to federal fracking rules
Four states and two petroleum industry groups are suing the U.S. Interior Department, saying the rules announced in March are unnecessarily burdensome for oil and gas developers.
View ArticleCanadian company’s tar sands mine approved in Utah
Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining director John Baza said Monday the decision addresses concerns raised by opposition while acknowledging that U.S. Oil Sands, the Canadian company building the mine,...
View Article1st U.S. tar sands mine set to open for business in Utah
The impending opening of the nation's first tar sands mine has become another front in the battle across the West between preservationists and the energy industry.
View ArticleU.S. rejects protections for greater sage grouse across West
State and federal officials committed hundreds of millions of dollars in the past several years to preserve areas of sagebrush occupied by the greater sage grouse.
View ArticleObama administration’s new fracking rules blocked by U.S. judge in Wyoming
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl puts on hold the most closely-watched effort by the Obama administration to ensure that fracking doesn’t contaminate water supplies.
View ArticleGreen groups appeal suspension of federal oil, gas drilling rules
The Sierra Club and others say the rules should be allowed to take effect to protect land and water from practices including hydraulic fracturing.
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