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In legal maneuver, states and green groups ask US EPA to reconsider CO2 rule
Environmental groups and states opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan have filed petitions for reconsideration aimed at addressing legal issues they claim were impossible to anticipate during the rulemaking phase for the regulation.
T. Boone Pickens, the 'Oracle of Oil' turned natural gas supporter, dies at 91
T. Boone Pickens, a power player in the oil industry for decades who spent his final years as an advocate for natural gas, died Sept. 11 in Dallas. He was 91 years old.
Exxon's Norway upstream asset sale would be 'landmark' Continental Shelf deal
U.S. supermajor Exxon Mobil Corp.'s potential $4 billion sale of nonoperating Norwegian oil and gas assets would not only advance the major's plan to divest $15 billion in holdings by 2021 but would also mark the largest upstream deal in the last five years in the North Sea, analysts said.
Employee recall at Blackjewel mines could mute uncertainty in Powder River Basin
Blackjewel LLC alerted furloughed western U.S. coal employees to a possible recall in a Sept. 9 letter, a move that could clear up uncertainty around two mines that supply a significant amount of thermal coal to utilities across the country.
Quoted
"When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits," said oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who used his independent producer Mesa Petroleum to launch takeover bids for much larger companies and who died on Sept. 11 at age 91.
Power
* The North American Electric Reliability Corp. has published details on the attack behind the first known disruptive "cyber event" for the U.S. power grid.
* Louisiana regulators voted to slash net-metering benefits for future solar customers, The Advocate of Baton Rouge, La., reported.
* Arizona utility regulators have decided they want to look at potentially opening the state's electricity market to full retail competition.
* The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered Duke Energy Corp. to reevaluate its response to a June storm that resulted to the Catawba River flooding dozen of homes, The Charlotte Observer reported.
* The Trump administration is set to finalize a new definition of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act, The Washington Post reported.
Natural gas
* Natural gas prices declined this summer, fighting off upward pressure posed by the growing volume of LNG exports and high power sector consumption of the fuel, and driving forecasts for generally lower wholesale electricity prices across the country in 2019, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Sept. 10.
* The U.S. House passed two bills that would ban offshore drilling on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico. In response, the White House said President Donald Trump would veto the bills.
* Separately, a group of U.S. House Republicans introduced the American Energy First Act to counter the drilling ban, The Hill in Washington, D.C., reported.
* In a legal ruling that could shake up the traditional process for condemning lands to build natural gas pipelines, a federal appeals court found
* The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered Sunoco Pipeline LP to cover exposed pipelines at 43 locations across the state. The exposed pipelines transport refined petroleum products and natural gas liquids.
* EVX Midstream Partners LLC completed the first phase of its water gathering systems in the Eagle Ford Shale.
Oil
* OPEC continues to scale back its projection for world oil demand growth for 2019 and 2020.
* BP PLC
* The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported U.S. crude oil stockpiles declined while petroleum stockpiles were mixed in the week to Sept. 6.
* Enbridge Inc. is asking the Canada Energy Regulator not to intervene in its planned changes on the Mainline pipeline system, the Calgary Herald reported.
* Saudi Arabian Oil Co.
Coal
* Two attorneys with expertise regarding the U.S. Surface Transportation Board said the regulatory body may soon address several issues that could benefit the coal sector.
* A broad coalition of companies and environmental organizations has finalized the pillars of its plan to create an economywide U.S. carbon tax that the group estimates will halve nationwide carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2035. The proposal still faces an uphill battle to gain Republican support in the U.S. Congress, however, where top GOP lawmakers remain leery of a carbon tax's economic impacts.
ChartWatch

Citing delays of large-scale energy storage projects and a slower-than-expected second half of the year for behind-the-meter batteries, Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables slashed its forecast for U.S. storage deployments in 2019 to 478 MW, down from an estimate of 642 MW in March.
New from RRA
* High double-digit transmission rate base growth among Entergy Corp.'s five operating companies drove an overall 11% increase in the aggregate transmission rate base for a group of 22 utilities in the Midcontinent ISO between 2018 and 2019.
The day ahead
* The U.S. Energy Information Administration natural gas storage report is due out today.
* Early morning futures indicators pointed to a higher opening for the U.S. equity markets. To view more SNL equity market indexes, click here. To view more SNL Energy commodities prices, click here.

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