The House on Wednesday passed the Northern Route Approval Act, which would approve the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline from Canada without a permit by President Barack Obama.
Lawmakers passed the bill on a 241-175 vote, with 19 Democrats joining 222 Republicans voting in favor. No Republicans voted against the bill.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government report details 87 shipwrecks — most sunk during World War II decades ago — that could pollute U.S. waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil.
A Manhattan judge ordered Chevron Corp CEO John Watson to testify in the fraud suit against Ecuadoreans trying to enforce a $19 billion judgment for Chevron's alleged rainforest pollution, Reuters reports.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called on ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to explain conflicting accounts of the company's Pegasus pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark., InsideClimate News reports.
The accident incident report from ExxonMobil's Mayflower spill, requested by the Sierra Club, says the company hasn't recovered 3,000 barrels of oil, The Energy Collective reports.
BP said it will spend a total $665 million of up to $1 billion on Gulf of Mexico restoration projects, up from $340 earlier this week, FuelFix reports.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Roughly 300 gallons of crude oil spilled early Friday into the Mississippi River near St. Louis after a vessel on the rain-swollen waterway slammed into a fleet of docked barges, causing 14 of them to briefly break away, according to the Coast Guard.
The Ontario Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit by Ecuadorian villagers to force Chevron Corp. to pay a $19 billion judgement for alleged oil pollution in the country's rainforest, The Associated Press reports.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A crew that was cleaning fuel barges in Mobile Bay likely caused a spark the triggered an explosion and critically burned three workers.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said growing stocks of U.S. natural gas can serve as a bridge to develop more renewable energy capacity, The Verge reports.
The State Department released the first batch of 100,000 public comments on its draft environmental impact study of the Keystone XL pipeline, Bloomberg reports.
Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency and three other agencies will take their first furloughs stemming from budget cuts today, Politico reports.
Current and former U.S. officials say Iranian hackers have boosted cyberattacks against computer networks at energy companies, Dow Jones Business News reports.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is in Portland, Ore., on Friday to announce new energy cooperation with Gov. John Kitzhaber and a representative of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, The Hill reports.
Attorneys general in four Northeastern states announced they would petition the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a new review of regulations governing nuclear waste storage, The Associated Press reports.
A panel of infrastructure experts in New Jersey criticized Gov. Chris Christie for remarks that suggested there was no evidence of a link between climate change and Hurricane Sandy, E&E Publishing reports.
Participants in the Energy Department's Better Buildings Challenge, designed to reduce energy consumption at buildings, saved about $58 million in energy costs last year, The Journal Sentinel reports.
Commodities firm Prime International Trading Ltd., filed lawsuits against BP, Statoil and Royal Dutch Shell for alleged price manipulation, Reuters reports.
