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.
Massachusetts utility regulators today imposed a seven-week moratorium on all work by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, operator of the system that had massive explosions in the Boston suburbs last month.
Controllers got two high-pressure alarms minutes before houses started exploding in the Boston suburbs last month, but they had no way to shut off the gas, according to a preliminary report issued yesterday.
The operator of the Oklahoma well that burned in January, killing five men, was trying to save money and impress investors with a risky drilling method, say attorneys for the dead men's families.
Nearly three months after Scott Pruitt's sudden departure from EPA, he still hasn't picked up his belongings.
President Trump is expected to follow through soon on an ethanol promise to Corn Belt states, leaving acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to broker a politically risky deal with the oil industry.