An independent panel says the operator of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant misinformed investigators and blocked inspection of key equipment last year, but that there was no cover-up attempt.  More »

An executive from the company that was BP’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig testified Monday that he learned of some “irregularities” in tests that the contractor’s employees performed after the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  More »

The Colorado Oil and Gas Commission says the state produced nearly 48 million barrels of oil in 2012, an amount not seen in decades.  More »

The president of a Massachusetts company once touted as a supplier of steel foundations for turbines for the project that aims to be the nation’s first offshore wind farm said his deal with Cape Wind is dead and he questions the developer’s commitment to the landmark project.  More »

An Algerian official says that the country’s security forces will take over the job of securing the country’s oil and gas facilities, instead of private companies, following a massive terrorist attack in January.  More »

New York’s health commissioner says he won’t wait for completion of any of the pending gas drilling studies and plans a recommendation “in weeks” on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracturing.  More »

French energy group Total says it is slowly restarting gas production in an area of the North Sea where a well sprang a leak nearly a year ago.  More »

Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps most worrying — radioactive waste due to the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant looms as a threat for the region.  More »

Shale gas drilling is slowing across the country, but a handful of companies are poking around this corner of the state looking for the next natural gas “play.” If they succeed, Georgia could join the ranks of states reaping jobs, revenue and fears of environmental damage from energy production.  More »

With New York entering the fifth year of review of the process known as hydraulic fracturing, growing calls to wait for the study could push a final decision back several more years, frustrating landowners and the natural gas industry.  More »

Maryland lawmakers seeking to block the natural gas production technique hydraulic fracturing have struck out in the General Assembly.  More »

BP says claims paid so far under a settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents have been higher than expected.  More »