Keith Goldberg

NEW @Law360: Me and graphics wiz @FakeBenJay have created a site tracking #climatechange suits against #FossilFuel companies as they progress in the courts, with links to our latest coverage. It’ll be updated as case events happen, check it out: law360.com/climate-torts-…

Gm, oil watchers Brent crude back above $110 this morning because—and stop me if you’ve heard this one—the Strait of Hormuz remains shut and the world oil market is losing 15 million barrels every day that remains true

"Tanker tracking data compiled by Bloomberg shows no sign of the eight big boats full of oil that are going right up the middle of the Hormuz strait that President Trump just mentioned in his briefing." bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

My latest for @Law360: The looming July cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity tax credits is sparking a dealmaking spree as smaller developers unable to meet the deadline begin looking to sell projects to deeper-pocketed players who can. law360.com/articles/24570…

Dallas Fed Energy Survey: In light of the recent increase in oil prices, how has the number of wells your firm expects to drill in 2026 changed since the start of the year? This question was posed only to E&P executives who each said their firms drilled or completed horizontal wells in the past two years. Half of the executives surveyed said the number of wells their firms expect to drill in 2026 has not changed since the start of the year. Twenty-six percent said they expect the number of wells they drill to “increase slightly,” and 21 percent said it would “increase significantly.” Conversely, 3 percent said drilling expectations “decreased significantly.” #oott

@Sammy_Roth FWIW, it was @maxinejoselow of the NYT who had the scoop that this deal was on the table. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

Meanwhile, when Trump does the thing, it doesn't make the front page of NYT and congressional Dems trudge ahead with permitting reform. “Keep reminding yourself, this is not normal. Write it on a Post-it note and stick it on your refrigerator.” climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/shackled-min…

Tried to game out what it would look like if President Kamala Harris pressured an oil company into accepting a $1-billion payoff to cancel a fracking project in Texas and build a wind farm in CA. Screaming headlines for months. Talk of impeachment. climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/shackled-min…

1) [Thread] In personal news, I just wrapped up a 12-year stint with @EENewsUpdates. Next steps TBD, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to have covered Clean Air Act issues in the company of terrific colleagues. Here - in no particular order - are 10 favorite stories:

🚨BREAKING: NIPSCO tells the IURC that the costs of U.S. DOE's 202c orders to keep open the Schahfer coal plant will cost more than $100 million 📈

Trump did not end up requesting "Rehearing or Readjudication" of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down IEEPA tariffs, as he suggested he might do on Truth Social. Mandate issued today

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says the physical oil market is tighter than the financial oil market is reflecting, particularly for refined products. The scarcity, particularly in Asia, is “not fully priced in the oil futures curve,” he says. #CERAWeek

Today was a really tough day at @EENewsUpdates 25% of us at the best energy and enviro news org decided to take a buyout I’m very sad to see extraordinary colleagues (and even better friends) leave — with management not explaining why that was needed See this 🧵 for more

SCOOP: Deputy Energy Sec’y James Danly doesn’t regularly use his official work email and instead relies on paper docs, a practice that’s raising concern among some staffers, five sources told me, @zcolman + @SophiaCai99. “He’s a dinosaur,” a source said. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Also not considering a ban on products, admin official tells me. As we've been saying, this is a products story more so than a straight oil one #OOTT

Thanks to @POTUS, the United States is the world’s top oil and natural gas producer. We are also the largest natural gas exporter and a top oil exporter. To be clear, the Trump administration has no plan to implement restrictions on oil and gas exports.

QatarEnergy CEO says the Iranian attack overnight damaged ~17% of its LNG production capacity, and it would take 3-5 years to repair the damage. reuters.com/business/energ…

The Trump administration is taking executive power into uncharted territory by asserting it can override state law to restart a California oil pipeline, but that assertion may invite skepticism from courts. law360.com/energy/article…

Scoop: Trump officials are weighing nearly $1 billion settlements to stop two TotalEnergies wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

You could argue there was a small "terror premium" starting in January. The irony is, as long as there is an Iranian regime in place with even marginal capabilities and incentive to block the Strait of Hormuz, there will likely be a "terror premium" from here on out.

BOMBSHELL: The longtime Chevron executive was friends with Hugo Chavez, an admirer of Delcy and a CIA informant. He warned the spy agency that backing Venezuela's democratic opposition would mean another Iraq. @cmatthews9 @VeraMBergen wsj.com/world/americas…

For some #oilandgas shippers, the damage may already be done. #OOTT law360.com/energy/article…