Friday, April 18, 2025

Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- April 18, 2025

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• Coal Creek Station among US coal plants granted emission exemption -- KX News

• Keystone Pipeline resumes operating after oil spill in ND -- North Dakota Monitor

• Federal oil, gas lease sales total $39M in five western states -- The Center Square

• Technology firms' 'ideology will change real quick' for ND energy -- Dickinson Press

• Leading opponent of CO2 pipeline in South Dakota expected to run for governor -- Aberdeen Insider

• Fedorchak: cutting wind, solar subsidies sends 'the right signals' to power companies -- Dickinson Press

• Lawmakers fear coming crisis in electric rates due to AI data center demand -- North Dakota Monitor

• House-Senate conference committee prepared to determine fate of property tax relief bill -- KFYR-TV

• Wildfire status in North Dakota: Two hurt in McClusky fire, other blazes dot the landscape -- KX News

• Wildfire disaster relief fund in North Dakota has distributed nearly $1 million -- Bismarck Tribune

• Senate passes bill to set aside $100K for grants to promote tribal culture, history, events -- KX News

• North Dakota Senate rejects bill that would have required annual legislative sessions -- Dickinson Press

• Lawmaker's vacation among 195 missed days by North Dakota legislators -- North Dakota Monitor

• ND Senate adds funding for local wastewater projects to replace federal cut -- North Dakota Monitor

• Current Minot City Council member Rob Fuller announces intent to run for Minot mayor -- KFYR - TV

• North Dakota House passes bill establishing $1 million for rural grocery store grants -- Dickinson Press

• ND Legislature advances bill to back rural improvement projects, strikes another -- Dickinson Press

• 'This system is broken': Dickinson homeowners erupt over steep property valuations -- Dickinson Press

• Williams County approves new Builder-Buyer program to spur housing development -- KFYR - TV

• The last charges being processed against Ian Cramer are now officially closed -- Beulah Beacon

• North Dakota senators pass education budget, setting up future conference committee -- KFYR - TV

• Tribes, North Dakota partner to update 30-year-old textbooks on Native history -- North Dakota Monitor

• Minot Public School board approves new hires and discusses vacant buildings -- Minot Daily News

• Teacher development, negotiations and hiring discussed by Divide Co. school board -- Crosby Journal

• Bismarck State College enhances hands-on energy program thanks to donated LACT Unit -- KFYR - TV

• Letter: Actual education reform is possible; North Dakota Legislature not serious about it -- Fargo Forum

• U.S. energy secretary says shale industry will 'survive and thrive' despite plunging crude prices -- CNBC

• Global oil demand and U.S. supply to grow more slowly on Trump tariff tensions, IEA says -- Reuters

• Environmentalists threaten to sue after Burgum announces new BLM regulations -- OK Energy Today

• US energy firms add oil and gas rigs for first time in four weeks, Baker Hughes says -- Reuters

• Appeals court temporarily halts lower court's order enabling release of climate funds -- The Hill

• Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling: "Beautiful Clean Coal is affordable too, ensures reliability -- Daily Caller

• Trump launches investigation that would lay groundwork for tariffs on critical minerals -- The Hill

• US Department of Energy prepared to axe $10 billion in "clean energy" projects -- Oilprice.com

• NY Times falsely claims climate change will trigger "global economic disaster" -- Climate Realism

• Trump administration plans to shut down NOAA's "woke" climate research division -- Daily Caller

• NASA's new chief is likely to wind down the agency's wasteful climate alarmist operation -- Newsmax

• Colorado may require pump labels warning drivers that gas causes climate change -- Just The News

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