EPA
Banking 'bulldog' now top Pruitt adviser
The scion of a storied Oklahoma banking family is taking the lead on U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's effort to remake the agency's toxic waste cleanup program.
Mike Soraghan
Reporter
Mike writes enterprise and investigative stories, primarily on oil and gas drilling. Before coming to EnergyWire, he covered congressional leadership for The Hill newspaper and served as a Washington correspondent for The Denver Post. He has received awards from the National Press Club, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists. He was a Kiplinger Fellow in 2014 and participated in NICAR Bootcamp in 2013. He is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a committee chairman and former board member at the National Press Club.
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SAFETY
Anadarko to permanently close well linked to fatal explosion
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. is permanently shutting down the well linked to a fatal home explosion in suburban Denver, along with two others in the same neighborhood.
SAFETY
Flow lines cited in more than 7K spills
Flow lines — the small, low-pressure pipes blamed for a fatal home explosion in Colorado last month — have long been a weak point at oil and gas well sites.
EARTHQUAKES
Injection surge 3 years before quake may have been 'tipping point'
A surge in oil field wastewater injection in Osage County, Okla., from 2013 to 2015 could have been the "tipping point" that led to Oklahoma's largest recorded quake last September, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey.
OIL AND GAS
Colo. Dems want better data on flow lines
Democratic state legislators in Colorado are responding to a fatal home explosion blamed on oil and gas flow lines with last-minute legislation to require more disclosure about the lines.