Jacqueline Toth

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Occidental Petroleum Corp. sent a $76-per-share, half-cash, half-stock bid for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to the latter’s board today — a premium over Chevron Corp.’s agreement with Anadarko, announced April 12, to pay $65 a share for the oil company. Sources said that the breakup fee for the Chevron-Anadarko deal is […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed legislation to require the state to increase the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard gradually to 50 percent by 2030, double from the current level. The bill’s enactment comes two years after Sisolak’s predecessor, Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) vetoed a bill that would have raised the […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to announce this morning that as of May 2, his department will stop giving 180-day waivers to eight countries importing Iranian crude or condensate oil, leaving those nations subject to U.S. sanctions if they continue to buy the oil, according to two State […]

By Jacqueline Toth and Brian Yermal Jr. Week in Review Interior Department The Interior Department acknowledged that staff intentionally excluded some meetings due to “internal protocol” from the public calendar of now-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt that he had with fossil fuel, water and other interests and confirmed that he continues to use one Google document for […]

By Brian Yermal Jr. Top Stories The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects total refining production to decline in April by 8.5 percent compared with the start of 2019 as U.S. oil refiners prepare to make plant overhauls in the second quarter. U.S. refinery maintenance tends to be higher in early spring and winter, but refiners […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Energy Secretary Rick Perry is finalizing the timing and details of his departure from the Trump administration, including preparing Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette for the transition, according to two people familiar with the plan, while three sources said his exit is not imminent but that Perry has mulled leaving for […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed legislation into law that gives the state’s municipal governments more authority over oil and gas project siting and directs regulators to emphasize public safety and the environment over energy production. The law does not change the minimum distance between new oil wells and homes, […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories The Interior Department admitted that staff intentionally excluded some meetings due to “internal protocol” from the public calendar of now-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt that he had with fossil fuel, water and other interests and confirmed that he continues to use one Google document for scheduling that has often been overwritten […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Former Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn and four others were charged in Germany over alleged fraud and violation of competition statutes related to the automaker’s past use of diesel emissions cheating software, according to public prosecutors in Germany. The prosecutors say the five officials knew about the use of […]