Environment

California regulators have approved the first RNG supply contract under SB 1440, advancing biomethane production and pipeline injection from organic waste at Anaergia’s SoCal facility.

Repair work remains underway in Washington County, Iowa, after a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners caught fire over the weekend. The cause of the explosion is under investigation.

SoCalGas has connected its first landfill-based renewable natural gas facility to its pipeline system, bringing RNG from WM’s Simi Valley landfill into commercial service.

BP has restored part of the Olympic Pipeline System after a refined products release east of Everett, Washington, while the affected segment remains shut pending investigation. The 400-mile system supplies gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel across the Pacific Northwest.

A Louisiana court has revoked Commonwealth LNG’s state coastal use permit, ruling that regulators failed to consider environmental impacts on nearby low-income and minority communities, in a case brought by the Sierra Club.

The D.C. Circuit has denied environmental groups’ challenge to a Puerto Rico pipeline, ruling FERC’s decision not to block construction reflected unreviewable enforcement discretion.

The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline, ruling Skeena and Kispiox groups lacked standing to contest permits for a section built entirely on Nisga’a lands.

Southwest Gas has filed for CPUC approval to supply renewable natural gas from food and wastewater in California.

A federal appeals court upheld FERC’s approval of a 1,000-foot border pipeline linking West Texas’s Permian Basin to Mexico, rejecting challenges from environmental groups over broader oversight and environmental review.

Nine First Nations groups across Ontario have filed a constitutional challenge against new provincial and federal laws that fast-track infrastructure and energy project approvals.

Woodside Energy and the Australian government have extended the consultation period for environmental conditions tied to the North West Shelf LNG project extension. The move follows conditional approval last month and comes amid concerns over emissions and impacts to Indigenous cultural heritage near the Burrup Peninsula site.

The Iowa Senate passed a bill tightening requirements for carbon pipeline companies to use eminent domain, adding landowner protections and new limits on pipeline operations amid growing pushback from rural communities.

Freedom CNG expanded its Western U.S. renewable fuel network with the acquisitions of Colorado-based X3CNG and Utah-based Lancer Energy, enhancing its CNG and RNG fueling capabilities.

Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project is advancing toward a key milestone, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers targeting a fall decision on the project’s permit following a public comment period set for late May.

A federal judge awarded North Dakota nearly $28 million from the U.S. government to cover costs tied to the Dakota Access pipeline protests, citing federal negligence during the 2016-2017 demonstrations.