In Wyoming, the state has decided it wants to monitor failed oil and company operators who try to restart business with a new firm or shrug their legal responsibilities. The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission says it wants to keep track on those connected to what it labels as bad operations. A spokeswoman for …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality’s public meeting on mercury levels in fish taken from 14 lakes will be held Tuesday in Oklahoma City. The agency’s added the lakes since its last advisory was issued in 2016 regarding elevated levels of mercury found in some of the fish. The advisories came as a result of …
At least 23 members of the Oklahoma legislature got a perfect score from the Research Institute for Economic Development for their votes on economic development and business issues. RIED is a non-partisan organization founded in 1997 and issues an annual report in which legislators are graded on their votes. Eleven members of the state senate …
Oklahoma is within days of officially rolling back a 10-year tax credit for electricity generated by wind. Governor Mary Fallin signed House Bill 2298 into law after a movement was started in 2016 by anti-wind groups, largely the oil and gas industry, in which complaints were made of the millions of dollars in unneeded credits …
Construction of a 440-mile pipeline that goes through eastern Oklahoma not only has been opposed by environmentalists but also has left at least one family near Muskogee upset. They’re not happy with the way the workers have left things as they build the Diamond Pipeline, a joint venture of Houston-based Plains all American Pipeline and …
With a resurgence in oil and gas exploration in Oklahoma underway, some companies are challenged with finding employees. Some have gone begging and others have taken to placing want ads. Now OK Energy Today is offering classified ads to help oil and gas firms in their search for qualified employees. “It’s not just oil and …
Oklahoma comes in ranked 17 in a new survey of Best and Worst States for Business Ranking by Chief Executive magazine. Gov. Mary Fallin observed the new ranking comes despite the recent economic downturn in the state and was an improvement of one from 2016. The governor said Oklahoma received above-average scores for taxation and …
The American Indian tribes who sued over the Dakota Access oil pipeline and tried to include President Trump have until Tuesday to respond to a federal judge who ruled they could not add the President as a defendant. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is allowing the individual members of the tribes to join the …
His congressional district includes the Eagle Ford oil play in south Texas and now freshman U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat is creating a Congressional Oil and Gas Caucus. He says he wants to educate fellow lawmakers about issues related to the oil and gas industry. Rep. Gonzalez wants to focus on the production and …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has been a pilot longer than he has been a Senator and has come out in strong support of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2017. After all, it includes some of his priorities including his Fairness for Pilots Act and the FLIGHT Act. “It is comprehensive and will …