PERMIAN BASIN
Natural gas flaring nearly doubled this year
The oil industry flared a record amount of natural gas in the Permian Basin this year, new research shows, and is on track to flare even more gas into 2019.
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Mike Lee, E&E News reporter
The oil industry flared a record amount of natural gas in the Permian Basin this year, new research shows, and is on track to flare even more gas into 2019.
The Trump administration is breaking with its predecessors by using a 2006 opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from a famously muddled wetlands case in a bid to limit Clean Water Act protection of isolated wetlands and waterways. Many legal experts don't think that's a good idea.
By Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire
EPA's detractors are worried the agency is taking a step that could weaken the cornerstone of the Obama administration's climate policy.
By Niina Heikkinen in Climatewire
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The Trump administration is breaking with its predecessors by using a 2006 opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from a famously muddled wetlands case in a bid to limit Clean Water Act protection of isolated wetlands and waterways. Many legal experts don't think that's a good idea.
By Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire
EPA's detractors are worried the agency is taking a step that could weaken the cornerstone of the Obama administration's climate policy.
By Niina Heikkinen in Climatewire