A Houston independent oil company admitted its negligence caused three oil spills in Jefferson Parish bayous. Cedyco Corp.agreed to pay a $557,000 fine and stop operating in Louisiana as part of a plea bargain signed Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Justice.  More »

Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging Nebraska’s new oil pipeline review law.  More »

A Texas agency is launching an initiative designed to reduce industrial flaring, a major source of air pollution.  More »

Royalty checks that start to arrive when a gas company drills on your property can make for some very profitable envelopes in the mailbox. But the low natural gas prices that have disrupted industry balance sheets in recent months could start to cut into those checks.  More »

The price of oil has dropped below $90 for the first time in nearly seven months as U.S. supplies continue to grow.  More »

Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn’t wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney’s top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports.  More »

Doctors given new access to the proprietary chemical recipes that oil and gas drillers use to crack into Ohio shale would be prohibited from sharing the information with the public under an energy proposal moving through the Ohio House.  More »

Oil has brought enormous economic prosperity to the busiest city in North Dakota’s booming oil patch but also has exacerbated problems in housing, infrastructure and traffic, even pushing some “stressed out” older residents to move away, Williston Mayor Ward Koeser told industry and government officials Tuesday.  More »

Turkmenistan signed a natural gas deal with Pakistan and India on Wednesday, in a significant boost to the proposed construction of a 1,100-mile pipeline across Afghanistan.  More »

Oil fell to a seven-month low below $91 a barrel Wednesday after Iran agreed to allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart an investigation into the country’s nuclear program.  More »

A federal magistrate has scheduled a hearing on a former BP engineer’s request for permission to travel freely throughout the U.S. while he awaits a trial on charges he deleted text messages about the oil company’s response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  More »

Environmental advocates were among dozens of witnesses lining up to testify Monday on a bill laying out Ohio’s new regulations for horizontal shale drilling and the use of renewable energy.  More »