The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court has dealt a major blow to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its efforts to enforce Regional Haze rules covering the air over national lands in southern Oklahoma and Texas. The court stayed the EPA’s plan through pollution controls at certain power plants, siding with numerous power companies in Texas, …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Route 66, a highway made famous for attracting gas-guzzling Chevrolet Bel Airs traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles, is turning green. The Mother Road is seeing a growing number of electric car charging stations along the 2,500-mile path, and some states even are pushing for solar panels and electric buses. Illinois …
Damage totals are estimated at a range of $85 million to $200 million from the Grand River Dam Authority fire that occurred on July 1, according to the Tulsa World. The damaged area involves the main generating facility which will require replacement of the Chouteau facility’s largest coal-fired unit. “The turbine is the question,” said …
Congressman Steve Russell’s bill called the “Making Electronic Government Accountable by Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act” was passed by the Senate and sent to the President’s desk. It’s a measure that Rep. Russell contends will save American taxpayers more than $4 billion a year. He and Pennsylvania Congressman Matt Cartwright (D) introduced the measure in June …
Claims of constitutional challenges are emanating from both Texas U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith and New York attorney General Eric Schneiderman in their fight over the efforts of some attorneys general to carry out their own investigation of Exxon Mobil and its climate change research. Schneiderman responded after Rep. Smith and the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology …
Two years after former Rep. Terry J. Matlock was fired as CEO of Choctaw Electric Cooperative in southeast Oklahoma, he was indicted by a multi-county grand jury on charges of embezzlement. As OK Energy Today reported in September of 2015, Matlock came under investigation at the request of Gov. Mary Fallin. Matlock, a former Democrat …
Solar panels along the historic Route 66—the Mother Road— are coming, at least in the state of Missouri according to a re port by NBC News. Missouri’s Transportation Department says it will test a new type of pavement that also will help generate electricity through built-in solar panels. A company named Solar Roadways based in Idaho …
A Choctaw man charged with embezzlement is wanted after he skipped a federal plea hearing on Wednesday, according to a report in The Oklahoman. Rodney Alan Hager is accused of transferring over $7 million from his family’s business, J&B Pipe Supply Company, to Mall Concepts of Oklahoma, Inc. Hager is a former bookkeeper employed by …
Oklahoma oilman Robert L. Parker Sr. was buried this week. He died July 9 at the age of 92 and for many years, led the company known as Parker Drilling Co. Over the course of his career in energy, he was named by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to be chairman of the U.S. Energy …
Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy has agreed to pay nearly $51 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits filed over royalty fights around Fort Worth, Texas. The company had been accused of cheating property owners out of millions of dollars in natural gas royalties. Attorneys at a Fort Worth law firm announced this week that 91 percent …