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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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Bank Wants Feds to Freeze Enron Execs' Assets

LCG, Dec. 10, 2001--Lawyers for a bank which manages worker retirement funds want a federal judge to freeze $1.1 billion in assets of Enron Corp. executives, suggesting the assets are ill-gotten gains and the executives could flee the country with the money.

Bill Lerach, an attorney for Amalgamated Bank, told U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal that the banks clients had lost more than $10 million in Enron's collapse and he would like to tap that $1.1 billion to get the workers' money back.

Judge Rosenthal said she wanted to review written arguments from both sides before addressing the matter later this month.

Reuters news agency said Lerach outlined what he alleged was a massive conspiracy of fraud and greed in the executive suites of Houston-based Enron.

"There was fraud at the top, fraud by the board," he charged in arguments before a courtroom packed with lawyers. "It's worse than any civil fraud case we've ever seen."

He alleged that former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling, who resigned in August after just six months on the job, had gone to Brazil and that former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, who left the company in October, may have flown to Israel via Canada, Reuters said.

"I don't want to accuse people of being a flight risk, but I do want to suggest it could be more than an academic exercise in this case," Lerach said.

Lawyers for the two former executives claimed they were both in the U.S. and said an asset freeze was unnecessary because there had been no wrongdoing. "To suggest there's a flight risk borders on ridiculous," said Jeffrey Kilduff, attorney for Skilling.

Fastow's attorney, Craig Smyser, told Judge Rosenthal that his client "is as distraught as anyone else over the tragic demise of Enron."

The $30 million Fastow walked away from Enron with should ease a significant portion of his distress.

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