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North Dakota utility regulators will reconsider their denial of a siting permit for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline BISMARCK, N.D. -- North Dakota utility regulators in an unusual move granted a request to reconsider their denial of a key permit for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline. North Dakota's Public Service Commission in a 2-1 vote on Friday granted Summit Carbon Solutions' request for reconsider ation. Chairman Randy Christmann said the panel will set a hearing schedule and “clarify the issues to be considered." Reconsideration “only allows additional evidence for the company to try to persuade us that they are addressing the deficiencies,” he said. Denying Summit's request would have meant the company would have to reapply, with a monthslong process that would start all over again without any of the information in the current case, including lengthy testimony. Summit Executive Vice President Wade Boeshans told The Associated Press that the company apprec...

Lawyers for Tesla have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threatened employees with a loss of stock options in a 2018 Twitter post NEW ORLEANS -- Lawyers for Tesla have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threat ened employees with a loss of stock options in a 2018 Twitter post amid a union organizing effort. Three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a March ruling, upheld a National Labor Relations Board order that the tweet be deleted. The panel also upheld an order that a fired Tesla employee be rehired with back pay. The case arose from United Auto Workers’ organizing efforts at a Tesla facility in Fremont, California. Tesla attorneys want the full 17-member court to rehear the case. The panel ruling, they argue in a Monday evening filing, co NFL icts with Supreme Court and appellate court precedents regarding First Amendment free speech protections. A...