Following a Colorado Supreme Court decision that maintains the state’s primacy in oil and natural gas permitting, Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley celebrated the decision, which removes the threat of federal bans on hydraulic fracturing. Read More »

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) recently released “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,” which shows that federal regulations and interventions cost U.S. consumers and the economy $1.885 trillion in 2015. Read More »

CACI International will continue supporting the U.S. Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) through its Development, Engineering and Protection Services (DEPS) project, following a recent multi-million-dollar task order. Read More »

Peter Langley, formerly deputy chief of staff and legislative director for Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, will be the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) new executive director of API-Michigan. Read More »

BAE Systems recently was awarded a $29.4 million U.S. Navy contract to provide maintenance services for the USS Gettysburg (CG 64). Read More »

Trapper Mining Inc. recently received final approval from the Department of the Interior on its Environmental Assessment (EA), which was developed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) after a lawsuit from WildEarth Guardians. Read More »

Elisabeth Treseder, formerly an American Petroleum Institute policy adviser for the midstream department in Washington, D.C., has been named an associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council (MPC), an API division. Read More »

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) recently highlighted environmental policies driven by the Obama administration that it said are placing an economic burden on entrepreneurs and small businesses. Read More »

Finishing a process that began with a divestment agreement in March 2015, Shell recently completed the sale of Dansk Fuels in Denmark, which was sold to Couche-Tard in a $300 million deal, pending regulatory approval from the European Commission. Read More »

Cenovus Energy Inc. recently welcomed Richard Marcogilese and Rhonda Zygocki to its board of directors following its annual shareholders meeting, which also saw the retirement of Ralph Cunningham and the election of nine others to the board. Read More »

Iran and S. Korea recently struck a deal in which South Korea's KOGAS will conduct technical studies and develop Iran’s Balal natural gas field in the Persian Gulf. Read More »

LONGBOW LLC, a Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman joint venture, recently won a $57.1 million foreign military-sale contract from the U.S. Army to supply LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) systems for the India air force's new Apache AH-64E helicopters. Read More »

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its latest report on the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) progress on the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), which shows that the agency did not meet its testing goals. Read More »

Duke Energy recently issued the 10th edition of its Sustainability Report, which has the company increasing its renewable energy growth goal for 2020 to 8,000 megawatts, a 33 percent increase from the company’s 2013 projected goal of 6,000 megawatts. Read More »

Defense Secretary Ash Carter recently addressed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the progress in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the next steps for the campaign. Read More »

The ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2015 Educational Matching Gift Program, through contributions from employees and retirees and foundation matching funds, contributed $45.4 million to higher-education institutions across the country last year. Read More »

The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently advanced the bipartisan Pipeline Safety Act of 2016 (H.R. 5050), which was developed following efforts to find weaknesses in existing safety laws for the nation’s energy pipelines. Read More »

Following the recent signing of the Paris climate-change agreement, National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn slammed the Obama administration’s omission of clean-coal technology from the solutions outlined in the agreement. Read More »

Kathy Judge, director of risk and compliance, as well as corporate security, at National Grid recently testified at a House Transportation Security Subcommittee hearing on behalf of the American Gas Association, emphasizing the importance of protecting energy pipelines from physical and cyber attacks. Read More »

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is urging the Obama administration to use the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) 2017-2022 offshore program to promote further U.S. oil and natural gas development, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More »