Senate President Pro Tempore-designate Greg Treat has announced the full committee assignments of Senate Republicans for the 57th Legislature including those that could have a direct impact on energy in Oklahoma. Treat also announced meeting times and locations of Senate committees for the 2019 session. The standing committees remain the same from the past …
Oklahoma will receive $26.5 million in federal grants from the Department of Transportation, according to comments made by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe on Thursday. Oklahoma City was awarded $14.3 million in BUILD grants to construct the city’s first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line between downtown and the northwest side of the city. The grants also …
Following severe storms, tornadoes and straight-line winds that caused damage in Oklahoma on Friday, Governor Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency for 12 counties, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. The counties included in the governor’s declaration are: Adair Cherokee Delaware Haskell Johnston Latimer Le Flore Muskogee Pittsburg Pushmataha Sequoyah Tulsa The …
A new federal government report reveals U.S. coal consumption has dropped to its lowest level since the Jimmy Carter Administration. The report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed the United States is estimated to burn through 691 million short tons of coal this year, falling to its lowest level since 1979, a 39 percent …
Allen Contracting Inc. of Oklahoma City was awarded a $105 million contract on Monday by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, according to a news report published in The Oklahoman. Work will commence next spring with an estimated completion in 2021. The contract is the largest single award issued by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. The construction …
With reports of light snow flurries and sleet falling in Norman on Tuesday afternoon, Oklahomans are bracing for a frigid weekend as another cold front is expected to move into the state on Thursday. News9 Meteorologist David Payne reports that a few showers may arrive with the arctic air. The rain will subside on Friday …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a $3,500 civil penalty to a Delaware medical firm for failing to properly secure licensed nuclear material, according to a report issued on Tuesday. In May, a physicist for Christiana Care Health Services discovered that 50 iodine-125 seeds were missing from a lab at the firm’s offices in Newark, …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation recently announced a new funding program aimed at building out Oklahoma’s light-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Funded by the Volkswagen State Environmental Trust, the ChargeOK Grant Program will offer nearly $3.1 million for the purchase, installation …
Oklahoma City-based Bison Oilfield Services recently closed its acquisition of S&S Star Water Solutions, a water infrastructure business operating in the state’s SCOOP, STACK and Merge plays, according to a report published by The Oklahoman. Financial terms were not disclosed. Bison’s website identifies the energy services company as “the largest privately held energy services company …
Over 500 truckloads of contaminated sludge were removed from the former Sequoyah Fuels uranium conversion facility in Gore last week, marking the end of a 15-year legal battle, according to a report by The Tulsa World. The sludge will be stored at a Utah site that has already received more than 10,000 tons of nuclear …