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.
Trump administration officials at EPA are changing the agency's top enforcement program into a "compliance initiative" that will emphasize less punitive responses to pollution by companies.
Scientists have used airborne imaging to locate previously unmapped faults in Oklahoma that may have been triggered by oil field disposal.
Some of the steel pipes that will carry high-pressure gas along the Atlantic Coast pipeline have been sitting in yards for a year or longer, and a landowner on the pipeline route is worried that they may have deteriorated in storage.
Four oil field disposal wells must be shut down in Oklahoma because of recent earthquake activity, state regulators said this week.
Patterson-UTI CEO Andy Hendricks got a $2.25 million bonus for 2017.