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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The United States added nearly 3.5 million new businesses in the first half of 2026, breaking previous expectations, according to a new report.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a slew of cases on Monday on issues including immigration, energy and voting rights as it prepares for the upcoming term.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a 23-state letter demanding answers from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts over a climate science chapter in a federal judicial evidence manual.The letter, addressed to Administrative Office Director Robert J. Conrad Jr., expresses concerns about the Federal Judicial Center and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.The attorneys general say the groups helped create the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which included a climate science chapter they say favored one side in climate litigation.The letter says the chapter “functions as an ex parte brief for one side of ongoing litigation.”The attorneys general also said the chapter could affect the rights of parties in court.“Federal judges who rely on the Manual to assist them in their duties could inadvertently prejudice litigants due to the bias baked into the chapter on climate science,” the letter says.Skrmetti and the other attorneys general say 27 attorneys general wrote to Federal Judicial Center Director Judge Robin L. Rosenberg in January. That letter noted “methodological and bias conce
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled this week that Greenpeace International cannot keep pursuing most of its lawsuit against Energy Transfer in the Netherlands as the pipeline company’s case moves forward in North Dakota.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Crews struck oil near Tioga on April 4, 1951, launching North Dakota’s modern energy industry. The state now marks 75 years since that discovery.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Nearly two dozen state attorneys general are asking the three top ratings agencies to explain their “ESG-driven” downgrades of fossil-fuel companies.
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(The Center Square) – Electricity prices and other measures of consumer energy affordability are highest in states with the most extensive policy mandates, compliance requirements, and the most rigid regulatory structures, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Nearly a year after a nine-person jury found Greenpeace liable for $667 million in damages in a case related to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a North Dakota judge has said the environmental organization will soon be ordered to make good on the damages.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Widespread extreme cold is expected to restrict the production of natural gas in the U.S. in the coming days, with supply disruptions likely in key shale basins that could cut average daily output by about 10%, industry analysts say.The price of benchmark natural gas futures at Henry Hub in Louisiana for deliveries in mid-February soared this week, rising 59% on Friday afternoon, the biggest weekly increase since 1990.The spike is expected to cause bill increases for residential consumers in some states, but the timing and degree of the impact will vary depending on the utility. Entergy customers in Louisiana, for example, will likely see fuel adjustment charges on their bills in two months, reflecting higher wholesale prices for gas during an upcoming winter storm.Analysts expect large withdrawals of natural gas from storage in the weeks ahead. The U.S. Department of Energy estimated U.S. inventories of natural gas in underground storage at 3,065 billion cubic feet on Jan. 16, 141 billion cubic feet higher than last year and 6.1% above the five-year average of 2,888 billion cubic feet for this time of year. “This deep freeze is hurting production, especially
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Six state attorneys general called on the nonprofit climate company Ceres, Inc. to halt all conduct they say is in violation of antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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