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Supreme Court Declines to Hear From Oil and Gas Companies Trying to Block Climate Change Lawsuits

The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, said declining to hear the Honolulu case now means the companies could face more lawsuits from activists trying to “make themselves the nation's energy regulators.” read more >
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Top Stories of 2024Lock Icon

Interest rates, the top business story of 2023, moderated in 2024, but insurance costs continued to skyrocket, sending last year’s No. 3 story to the top of this year’s annual list. read more >
Banking & Finance / Energy / Government & Politics

Royalty Pains: Arkansas Rights Owners Call Lithium Offer Too LowLock Icon

Five big players in south Arkansas’ emerging lithium industry are proposing a royalty rate for mineral rights owners, but they may have to dig a little deeper. read more >
Construction / Energy / Government & Politics

Oil Glut by 2030? Electric Vehicles May Answer

Spare capacity — the amount that oil producers could be pumping but don’t because supplies are adequate — could rise to levels seen in the COVID pandemic, when millions of cars were sitting parked. read more >
Construction / Energy / Industry

Standard Lithium, Tetra Announce Concrete Plans For Lithium Plants

Standard Lithium announced a new partnership to accelerate the development of their lithium plant, while Tetra Technologies announced plans to build a bromine and lithium plant near Lewisville. read more >
Energy / Government & Politics / Industry

Update: Companies Withdraw Plan to Set Arkansas Lithium Royalties

The topic had been scheduled for discussion at an April 23 meeting of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission in El Dorado. read more >
Construction / Energy / Industry

Bringing In the Brine: South Arkansas Lithium Projects Face Engineering ChallengesLock Icon

Companies have invested hundreds of millions to create an Arkansas lithium industry, the infrastructure for which will be costly. read more >
Energy / Manufacturing

A History Lesson in Drilling

Robert Reynolds gives a living history of the oil and gas industry in south Arkansas, where the roots of his pioneer family reach back six generations. read more >
Energy

Preliminary Study Foresees $1.27B Standard Lithium Project in Arkansas

Standard Lithium announces results from its preliminary study of the feasibility of a $1.27 billion lithium production project in southwest Arkansas. read more >
Energy

Exxon and the Race for Arkansas Lithium

The lithium mining boom is on in south Arkansas, and Exxon Mobil has entered the field. read more >
President Joe Biden during a NATO news conference in Brussels, Belgium in March 2022
Energy / Government & Politics

Biden Paints Oil Firms as War Profiteers, Talks Windfall Tax

Congress would have to approve any additional taxes on the energy producers — which would be a tall order in the current Congress where Democrats have narrow control of the House and Senate. read more >
Energy / Public Companies / Transportation

Oil Giants Rake in Record Profits Amid High Energy Prices

Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.66 billion in net income. read more >
Energy / Government & Politics

World Energy Crisis: Out of Pan, Into Fire

As the calendar turns to fall, an eased energy crisis is turning fierce again worldwide with ominous headlines at every turn. read more >
Banking & Finance / Energy / Manufacturing

Report: Companies Donated $170M to GOP Election Objectors

Corporations and industry groups have donated at least $170 million in recent years to Republicans who rejected President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump, according to a new report by a government watchdog group. read more >

Company Tests Oil Pipeline That Ruptured in Arkansas

A company tested the integrity of a segment of pipeline that has been idle since it ruptured in 2013, spilling 5,000 barrels of crude oil in a Arkansas neighborhood and causing more than $57 million in damage. read more >
Energy / Legal

Landowners, Exxon Mobil Attorneys Spar in Appeals Court

Attorneys for landowners along a crude oil pipeline that ruptured in Arkansas in 2013 say Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. breached its contract because the pipeline interferes with their ability to enjoy their property. read more >
The path of the ExxonMobile Pegasus pipeline near Lake Maumelle.
Government & Politics / Legal

Government Responds to Settlement Opponent in Pipeline Case

The government has responded the an Arkansas water utility's opposition to the proposed settlement of a lawsuit with Exxon Mobil over a 2013 oil spill in Mayflower. read more >
Government & Politics / Legal

Exxon Mobil Firms to Pay Nearly $5M for Mayflower Oil Spill

The Justice Department says two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil have agreed to pay almost $5 million in government penalties for a 2013 oil spill in a central Arkansas community. read more >