Oklahoma investigates whether drilling is causing earthquakes

OIL & GAS: Oklahoma regulators direct an oil and gas disposal well to pause operations while they investigate whether it may be responsible for a series of earthquakes. (Oklahoman)

WIND:
• Dominion Energy will lease part of Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal for staging and pre-assembly of the foundation and turbines for an offshore wind project. (Associated Press)
• Investors and contractors testify against two men charged with fraud in a failed Arkansas wind farm. (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

SOLAR: An Arkansas city leases farm property for a solar facility after two failed attempts to secure land for the project. (Times Record)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• Electric vehicle charging manufacturer Siemens gears up to make more than 1 million EV chargers in the U.S. over the next four years and is eyeing locations for a second plant to complement its existing North Carolina factory. (S&P Global)
• A Virginia school district agrees to buy two new electric school buses, and Dominion Energy will pay to build two chargers for them. (Southside Sentinel)
• A Korean automotive supplier announces plans to build a factory in eastern Tennessee. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

GRID: Texas’ grid manager proposes rules requiring generation and transmission operators to complete cold-weather winterization by Dec. 1. (S&P Global)

COAL:
• Environmental groups petition a Florida city council to pass an ordinance banning the import of coal ash into local ports after a stuck barge spilled as much as 4,000 tons of the substance in the spring. (WJCT)
• Workers implode six smokestacks at a retired Alabama coal plant the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to redevelop in favor of natural gas. (Associated Press)

BIOFUELS: A Louisiana tank farm plans to invest $100 million to build out a marine terminal with storage tanks, pipelines and storage space so it can handle renewable fuel products. (Advocate)

CARBON CAPTURE:
• An oil and gas producer wins a bid to lease an offshore site in the Gulf of Mexico that will be used for a carbon sequestration and storage project. (S&P Global)
• Pipeline companies turn to carbon capture technology as activists and investors push them to address greenhouse gas emissions. (Financial Times, subscription)

PIPELINES: Federal regulators warn Shell of safety problems on a 97-mile pipeline that runs through Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to an ethane cracker plant. (Allegheny Front/​WESA)

COMMENTARY: Virginia regulators’ recommendation that a state board approve a water quality certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline represents an abdication of the state’s obligation to project water resources, writes an environmental group. (Appalachian Voices)