OIL Oil edges toward $50 a barrel on vaccine optimismWilliam Watts, Market Watch, December 10, 2020 Oil futures pushed higher Thursday, shaking off the previous day’s sharp rise in U.S. crude inventories, as investors remain focused on progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine which may enable a return to economic normality next year. West Texas Intermediate crude for January delivery CL … read more

News of the Day:  Final EPA Clean Air Act Cost Benefit Rule: Environmental Stewardship & Healthy Economy not mutually exclusive.  EPA moves to make it harder for Biden to justify stricter air pollution limitsAbby Smith, The Washington Examiner, December 9, 2020 The Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to make it harder for the agency to justify stricter air pollution limits … read more

OIL Federal court sends Hilcorp’s Liberty Project back to BOEM to try again  for approvalLiz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media, December 7, 2020 A federal appeals court has overturned approval for Hilcorp’s Liberty Project, an offshore drilling prospect located east of Deadhorse, in the Beaufort Sea. Liberty Project received key approval from the federal government in Oct. 2018 to become the … read more