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EPA Issues Class VI Well Permits to ExxonMobil for Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Texas

LCG, October 21, 2025--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued three final Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits to ExxonMobil for their Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project located in Jefferson County, Texas. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, these permits allow ExxonMobil to convert three existing test wells permitted by the state to carbon dioxide (CO2) storage injection wells for long-term storage.

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Holtec Receives New Nuclear Fuel at Palisades for Planned Restart

LCG, October 20, 2025--Holtec International announced today that the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant site in Michigan has received new nuclear fuel – 68 assemblies in total – that achieves a major milestone on the path to restarting the plant. The 800-MW facility was shutdown and decommissioned in 2022 due primarily for economic reasons; however, Holtec is progressing towards restarting the original unit by the end of this year, pending all necessary federal regulatory reviews and approvals. Achieving a successful restart of a shutdown nuclear unit will be a historic first for the nuclear industry.

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Rafael Abati has been appointed general manager of Sempra Energy Europe Espaa, the new Madrid office of Sempra Energy Inc.'s trading subsidiary. Previously, he was with Madrid-based SKS Energy Trading, which he co-founded in 1998.

Douglas T. Hickey has been appointed a director of Plug Power Inc., a maker of fuel cells. He is chief executive and a director of Critical Path Inc., a provider of business-to-business Internet messaging services for the wireless, Internet-centric, telecommunication and corporate markets.

V. J. Horgan has returned to Dallas as president of TXU Energy Trading, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TXU Corp. She most recently was president of Aquila Merchant EnergyPartners in Kansas City.

Richard WoolworthNorthwest Natural Gas Co. He is chairman and chief executive of The Regence Group, a Western affiliation of health plans in Oregon,Washington, Idaho and Utah.

Changes at Energy East Corp.
Energy East Corp., the former New York State Electric & Gas Co., has announced changes in its management and board resulting from its mergers with CMP Group and CTG Resources.

  • David T. Flanagan, president and chief executive of CMP Group, has been named president and a director of Energy East.

  • David M. Jagger, president and treasurer of Jagger Brothers Inc. and a former CMP director, has joined the Energy East board.

  • Peter J. Moynihan, a former senior vice president and chief investment officer of Unum Corp. and previously a director of CMP, has become an Energy East director.

  • Michael W. Tomasso, vice president of Tomasso Brothers Inc. and a former CTG Resources director, is now a director of Energy East.

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