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Montana develops as climate battleground
While many think of Montana as Big Sky country, to environmentalists and others it is a state emerging as a climate battleground to watch. That’s because Gov. Greg Gianforte recently signed a law barring the state from using climate impacts to determine major projects. On top of that, a state judge ruled a first-of-its-kind …
National electric power group warns of summer energy shortfalls
A large part of the U.S., including Oklahoma, could face energy shortfall this summer because of the heat warned a national electric power group in a recent release. It came from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation which issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. The assessment warned that two-thirds of North America is at risk …
China’s “economic coercion” gains attention of Oklahoma Representatives
Just a few weeks after Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole complained of the Chinese Communist Party using “economic coercion” to intimidate its neighbors, it was the key subject to weekend discussion at the G-7 summit in Japan. As OK Energy Today reported earlier in May, Rep. Cole complained how the CCP u8sed economic coercion for its …
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** A California city will make an exception to its natural gas ban for world-famous chef José Andrés, after the landlords for the chef’s planned restaurant warned Andrés may pull out over the regulation. After the owners of the mall where Andrés is set to open the restaurant threatened to sue the city, Palo Alto …
Texas judge stops company’s oil production
An oil company has been ordered by a Texas judge to stop production in the city of Dayton, just outside of Houston. The order came after residents complained that oil is seeping into their drainage system, damaging properties and making them sick according to KPRC TV News. Click here for KPRC
Fertilizer shipment missing in Mojave Desert
California officials are investigating the disappearance of 30 tons of ammonium nitrate from a railcar crossing the Midwest. Ammonium nitrate, which is used as fertilizer, can also be used to create explosives and was a key component in the homemade bomb used in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. According …
OKC’s Galvanic Energy and its $100 million deal with ExxonMobil
How prophetic was an OK Energy Today article last November about Oklahoma City’s Galvanic Energy. “Brent Wilson and his former colleagues who joined him after being laid off from an Oklahoma City oil and gas company might be sitting on a gold mine,” was the lead to the story. Galvanic, a firm created for …
New Mexico governor vows a fight with the Biden administration
The Biden administration has a coming fight on its hands with Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grishm. How much of a fight? “I will use every tool in my toolbox,” she recently vowed as she is against the federal government’s recent approval of a nuclear waste storage site in southeastern New Mexico. The …
Oklahoma’s new anti-ESG law felt by city of Stillwater
Not everyone in Oklahoma is a fan of the state’s new law that recently resulted in 13 financial institutions banned from doing state business because of their use of ESG against the oil and gas industry. A weekend report showed there are other sides to the impact of the new law. The Sunday Oklahoman …
Governor signs law affecting young rural drivers
Rep. Carl Newton, R-Cherokee, this week thanked the governor for signing into law a bill that will allow teens as young as 14 years old who live or work on a family farm to be eligible for a driving permit to go directly to or from home, work or school. House Bill 1962 becomes effective …