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Energy - October, 2009

193 articles

• WildEarth Seeks To Halt Opening Of Xcel Energy Plant
• GHG Appellate Rulings Could Incite Insurance Brawls
• Enviro Groups Appeal Ga. Nuclear Plant Permit
• AEP Asked To Conduct Safety Tests At Coal Ash Site
• No Coverage For Cinergy Clean Air Act Woes
• Massey Unit Buries Hatchet In Age Bias Suit
• BP Challenges $87M OSHA Fine Over Texas Refinery
• Md. OKs $4.5B Nuke Deal, But Companies May Balk
• CenterPoint Comes Up Empty In Gas Price MDL
• Winston & Strawn Energy Atty Jumps To Akin Gump
• Goodyear Needn't Disclose Full Settlement: Judge
• Hydro-Quebec Strikes $4.4B Deal On NB Power Assets
• Industry Reps Rip Into Senate Bill's Carbon Target
• Eckert Seamans Announces New Hires, Va. Office
• Calif. Can Regulate Washer Water Amid Crisis: 9th Circ.
• 1st Circ. Rejects Challenge Of LNG Lease Approval
• Pacific Energy's Cook Inlet Sale Hits Speed Bumps
• Sunoco To Pay Up Over Air Quality Violations
• Experts Urge Funding For Clean Tech In Climate Bill
• Exxon Resolves Slew Of MTBE Suits For $17.5M
• Citgo Urges Delay In Trial Over 2006 La. Oil Spill
• 'Commercial Tech' Incentives For Renewable Energy
• 10th Circ. Affirms Trans-Western Win In Oil Lease Spat
• EU Unveils Plan To Limit Cargo Van Emissions
• Treasury OKs $2.2B In Clean Energy Project Bonds
• Russia Launches Antitrust Probe Into Gazprom
• $40M Marathon Gas Spat Better Heard In Ky.: Insurers
• Petition Prompts EPA Objection To BP Air Permit
• Constellation Defends $4.5B Electricite De France Deal
• Cleantech Leaders Express Support For Climate Bill
• Russia Hits Rosneft With $181M Fine; Lukoil Is Next
• Ion Enters $175M Joint Venture To Slash Debt Load
• Woodcock Predicts Rapid Growth In Cleantech Patents
• Obama Hands Out $3.4B To Build Smart Grid
• Senate Showdown Begins At Climate Bill Hearings
• Conoco Workers Renew Class Cert. Bid In FMLA Suit
• Goodyear, Chemical Cos. Battle Over Shell Deal
• Key Deals In Hand, SemGroup Wins Plan Approval
• 1st Circ. Rejects Appeal Of Ruling On LNG Project
• On Eve Of Trial, Judge Tosses Chevron Claims
• UK Charges Possible In KBR Probe: Halliburton
• Senate Unveils Cap-And-Trade Emissions Bill
• States Want Judge Off Allegheny Energy Clean Air Case
• SemGroup Judge OKs Deals As Ch. 11 Exit Nears
• Ex-SemGroup Exec Settles SEC Insider Trading Suit
• VeraSun Gets Final Approval For Liquidation Plan
• Alcoa Seeks $500M From EFH In Contract Suit
• EPA To Issue New Power Plant Rules By Nov. 2011
• Implications Of FINRA Rule 5122
• FWS Proposes Huge Habitat Designation For Polar Bear
• Southern Power, LS Power Swap Plants
• Australia Gives Conditional OK To Yanzhou Deal
• MEMC Acquires SunEdison For $200M
• Mountaintop Coal Case Stayed Pending EPA Probe
• House Greenlights New R&D Roadmap For Solar Power
• Orthodox Union Backs Off Kosher Mark Injunction Bid
• Pa. Fines Cabot For 3 Gas Well Spills
• Ark. High Court To Take Up AEP Plant Approval Case
• Avocent Shareholder Sues To Halt $1.2B Emerson Deal
• GE Pushes For Green Trade Agreement
• Paving The Way For GHG Public Nuisance Claims?
• Korea Bolsters Global Oil Play With $3.9B Canada Buy
• Putative ERISA Class Action Against BP Still In Play
• Illegally Dumped Oil Waste Costs Shippers $1.25M
• Senators Fear Climate Bill Will Shoot Up Energy Costs
• Utilities Fail To Preemptively Bar EPA Power Plant Rule
• EnCana Settles With Gallo Winery In Antitrust Dispute
• Exxon Reaches Deal With Parents For MTBE Tests
• Hunt Oil Wins Reversal Of $5.3M Contract Judgment
• Marathon, Insurers Battle Over Forum In Gasoline Spat
• 2nd Circ. Revives Exxon Gas Station Pollution Suit
• The US And Canadian GHG Reporting Rules
• Bill Aims To Accelerate Vehicle Fuel Conversions
• Oil Cos. Can't Shake Goodyear Wrongful Death Suit
• 5th Circ. Lets Enron Broadband Exec Off The Hook
• US Suit Over Azerbaijan Oil Pact Arbitration Dropped
• Developers Add Voices To Md. Suit Over LNG Project
• DOE's Financial Institution Partnership Program
• Pioneer Southwest To Sell $500M In Equity, Debt
• Magistrate Strikes 4 Complaints From Hot Fuel MDL
• Nuclear Waste Co. Hit With Securities Suits
• Exxon Ordered To Pay $105M Over MTBE Contamination
• 5th Circ. Revives Katrina GHG Mass Tort
• Stallion Oilfield Files For Ch. 11 With Lender Support
• Sierra Club Settles With EPA Over Ky. Coal Plant
• VeraSun Plan Doesn't Protect Grain Growers: Liberty
• EPA Challenges Permit For Mountaintop Coal Mine
• EC Clears E.ON-Electrabel Power Plant Trade
• 'Buy American' And Renewable Energy Projects
• 10th Circ. OKs Defiant $2M Award For Legal Abuse
• Calpine Rival Prevails In $9.7M Flying J Credit Sale
• China Sunergy Reaches $1M Deal In IPO Fraud Action
• FirstEnergy Reaches Deal In Coal Plant Emissions Suit
• Kivalina Case Dismissal Breaks With 2nd Circ.
• Amaranth Plaintiffs Make Bid For Certification
• Climate Bill Unlikely To Pass Before Copenhagen: Attys
• Partnerships Help Drive Energy Projects In Rocky Times
• PG&E Sued For Allegedly Sparking Calif. Wildfire
• $21M Verdict In NorthWestern Pension Spat Affirmed
• Plains All American Registers For $2B Securities Sale
• No Punitive Damages Against Exxon In MTBE Suit: Judge
• Xstrata Abandons Bid To Buy Rival Anglo American
• Pacific Energy Finds Buyer For Alaska Assets
• Chevron Sues For $6.3M Over Building Tax Scheme
• Member Sues Power Co-Op Over Pricing Scheme
• Tetra, Insurers Strike $40M Deal Over Katrina Damage
• Brazil's Landmark Pre-Salt E&P Legislation
• Judge Bags Bourke's Attack On Criminal Verdict
• Lloyd's Fires Back In Energy Co.'s Storm Damage Suit
• EPA Ordered To Revisit Mont. Water Standards
• Cap-And-Trade's Price Tag Still Unclear, Experts Say
• Newfield Exploration, Hess Enter Joint Drilling Venture
• Antitrust Claims In NatGas MDL Not Barred: Judge
• Mid-America Sues Excavator Over Pipe Break
• Calpine Aims For Flying J's $9.7M Emission Credits
• When Is A Foreign Tribunal Not A Foreign Tribunal?
• Crusader Energy To Sell Texas Oil & Gas Assets
• Lake Michigan Oil Spill Spat Weathers Bid To Toss
• SC Urges High Court To Nix 3rd Parties In Water Spat
• Va. Utility Sues Comcast Over Pole Rental Rates
• Supreme Court To Review Skilling's Enron Conviction
• Russian Gas Headed To China Under New Deal
• Calpine To Offer $750M In Senior Notes
• Claims Trimmed In $30M Cleanup Suit V. Halliburton
• France, Italy, Germany Fight EU Van Emissions Limits
• Chaparral Energy To Go Public In $1.8B Deal
• Global Warming Litigation Heating Up?
• Schwarzenegger Pens Renewable Energy Deal With DOI
• Southern Union To Appeal $18M Mercury Case Judgment
• Sunoco Settles EPA Case Over Waste Violations
• Oil Exec Denied New Trial In Exploration Fraud Suit
• Chevron Wins Reversal Of $2.5M Energen Enviro Ruling
• AIG Unit Calls For Arbitration In Massey Fire Dispute
• Petroleum Reserve Security Co. Settles Contract Spat
• Exxon Appeals $150M Gas Leak Judgment
• Ferrellgas Settles Action Over Inflated Propane Prices
• Fed. Circ. Vacates Injunction In Baker Hughes IP Suit
• Sen. Backs Tariff For Emission-Heavy Imports In Bill
• States Seek To Defend Calif.'s Motor Vehicle Waiver
• FERC Appeals Environmental Groups FOIA Win
• Citi To Sell Phibro Unit For $250M
• GT Solar Shareholder Suit To See Light Of Day
• Lloyd's Appeals Remand Of Oil Rig Insurance Spat
• Renew Creditors, Bondholders Object To 'Rushed' Sale
• Ind. Gas Station Signs Not Kosher: Orthodox Union
• High Court Hears From Critics Of Mountaintop Mining
• US Chamber Fires Back At Climate Change Defectors
• Ky. Price-Gouging Case Against Marathon Advances
• Florida Power & Light Settles Over Feb. 2008 Outage
• Edge Petroleum 1st-Day Motions Ready It For Sale
• Norway's StatoilHydro Offers $900M In Notes
• Stallion Oilfield Services Preps For Prepack Ch. 11
• Exxon To Snap Up $4B Stake In Ghana Oil Field
• Auto-Dril Claims Inequitable Conduct In Patent Dispute
• Cardinal, Legacy Drop $5.7M Oil Lease Dispute
• Esso Faces New Suit Over Gas Leaks In Puerto Rico
• The EPA's Proposed New Tailoring Rule
• Chesapeake Securities Action Goes West To Okla.
• Suit Seeks to Force Texas Agency To Regulate GHG
• Canadian Hydro Agrees To $1.6B TransAlta Takeover
• Oil Lobbyists Can't Intervene In Ocean CO2 Suit: Court
• Xcel, Others Try To Snuff FLI Gas Price-Fixing Suit
• Venezuelan Oil Co. Wants Trigeant Antitrust Suit Nixed
• Fraud Claims Dropped In Halliburton Drilling Patent Case
• Jury In Exxon MTBE Case To Begin Deliberations
• High Court Seeks SG's Advice On Gas Taxation Case
• High Court Nixes DOI Appeal Of Anadarko Royalty Win
• McDermott Will Adds Denton Wilde Energy Partner
• High Court Rebuffs Appeal Of Exxon Valdez Damages
• Southern Union Hit With $18M Fine In RI Mercury Case
• Citgo Loses Bid To Toss Price-Fixing Action
• Creditors Get Little Recovery In Northeast's Plan
• 2nd Circ. Nixes Sudanese Claims Against Talisman
• Total Tries To Hold Off $3.5M In Oil Royalty Payments
• Wyo. Refinery Faces $7M Fine Over Waste Pond
• PGE Clean Air Act Claims Not Time-Barred: Judge
• Exelon Security Guards' Contract Spat Shut Down
• Sens. Urge New Look At ITC Wind Turbine Decision
• Montana Power, Shareholders Reach $115M Deal
• NLRB Sides Against Massey Unit In Union Feud
• Maine, US Settle Over CERCLA Costs
• Massey Energy Derivative Action Thrown Out
• US Called On To Pony Up In Chevron Superfund Suit
• Edge Petroleum Ducks Into Ch. 11 For Quick Sale
• AXA Fights Liability Over Tugboat Pipeline Crash
• BP Faces Contract Action Over Natural Gas Royalties
• Water District Can't Remand MTBE Case: 2nd Circ.
• US Shipping Partners' Ch. 11 Plan Wins Judge's OK
• Discrimination Suit Against Utility Co. Legit: Judge
• NextEra Buys Babcock Wind Projects For $352M
• US Signs Nuclear Energy Pacts With Italy
• Judge Quashes Enviros' Tar Sands Pipeline Suit
• US V. Radley: Undercutting Enforcement Authority