A federal judge has ruled that the Mississippi attorney general’s lawsuit against the administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund to get access to claims filed by coastal residents will be heard in state court.  More »

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke probation for oil giant BP, operator of the largest oil field on Alaska’s North Slope.  More »

ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, Marathon Petroleum Co. and other firms could face million of dollars in energy license fines for uses fraudulent renewable fuel credits, according to a Politico story.  More »

BP Plc must face claims over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in lawsuits by the states of Louisiana and Alabama, a judge said.  More »

U.S. auto-safety regulators are examining the safety of lithium-ion batteries that power all plug-in electric vehicles after a General Motors Co. (GM) Chevrolet Volt caught fire, people familiar with the probe said.  More »

Nabors Industries, which recently came under fire for planning to pay Eugene Isenberg $100 million to relinquish his chief executive’s title, now finds itself facing scrutiny for other goodies it may have showered on executives.  More »

Plugging an abandoned Marcellus Shale gas well in Pennsylvania could cost $100,000 or more, and well bonding changes proposed by the Corbett administration could stick taxpayers with almost all of that bill, according to a study from Carnegie Mellon University.  More »

BP Plc gained a victory in a pair of lawsuits as a Siberian court rejected $16 billion of claims brought by a minority shareholder in OAO TNK- BP Holding, Russia’s third-biggest oil producer.  More »

Nebraska needs a law to address concerns over the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline even though the U.S. State Department decided Thursday to delay the hot-button project for at least a year, Gov. Dave Heineman said.  More »

Workers with Texas’ main oil and gas industry regulator, the Railroad Commission, are now allowed to carry concealed weapons while on the job if they’re properly licensed.  More »

In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.  More »

It is expected that Senator Rand Paul’s attempt to get Senate approval for repeal of the EPA”s cross state poluution rule under the Congressional Expedited Repeal process will fail.  In my opinion, that is a good thing.  While Congress does and should have ultimate responsibility for the most importat legal policies, I don’t think the [...]  More »