SoCalGas, the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, has suffered two public, self-inflicted black eyes as the Los Angeles company gears up for what promises to be a controversial price hike next year. The company has a “general rate case” pending at the California Public Utilities Commission, seeking an additional $5 billion in revenue over… More Self-Inflected Shiners for SoCal Gas

Predictable extreme Texas weather – this time heat, not cold – has again embarrassed the Lone Star State’s fossil fuel braggarts and humbled the state’s go-it-alone electric grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), once again rescued by allegedly unreliable renewables. Fortunately, the state was able to avoid rolling blackouts. The Houston Chronicle reported… More ERCOT Again Abandoned by Fossil Fuels

A federal appeals court has ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for Wyoming in a dispute over regional haze limits from large coal-fired power plants. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last month (Aug. 15) found that EPA’s partial rejection of a state implementation plan (SIP) for cutting NOx emissions from… More 10th Circuit Rejects EPA Wyoming Haze Reduction Rule