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Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.). Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) unveiled a resolution to undo former President Trump's methane regulatory rollback. Francis Chung/E&E News Three top oil and gas companies are throwing their support behind Democrats' push to restore an Obama-era rule on oil and gas methane emissions. Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Equinor ASA and BP PLC are calling on lawmakers to support a resolution — S.J. Res. 14 and H.J. Res. 34 — that would give...

Print this article President Joe Biden is readying an executive order that would require companies to disclose the risks they face from climate change, special climate envoy John Kerry said this week. Kerry didn’t elaborate on the details of the order or the timing, but the move would fulfill a promise Biden made on the campaign trail to require all public companies to report their emissions and climate-related risks. Already, the Biden administration has taken a number of actions to bolster capacity at agencies such as the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the...

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Print this article Oil and gas giant Shell lent its support Wednesday to an effort by Democrats to use a procedural tool to cancel a Trump administration action that would essentially block the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling methane emissions from fossil fuel production. European-based Shell became the first oil major to endorse a resolution introduced by Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats, to use the Congressional Review Act to scrap the Trump administration methane rollback. The resolution is co-sponsored ...

Ben Ratner2021-04-02T12:45:49-04:00March 12, 2021| For ice fishermen on northern Michigan’s frozen lakes, it’s easy to feel like climate change is a world away. But it’s only a matter of time before a warming planet transforms the tradition.   By Ben Ratner Amid the frozen Michigan fields—past the homemade signs for hubcaps, hard cider, and firewood—lies Houghton Lake. Surrounded by forest and farmland, it  is one hundred miles from the state capitol and two hundred from the state’s population centers. The lake borders a town of four thousand people and a “census-designated p...