Whether it is in direct response to the firing by Attorney General Gentner Drummond of attorneys hired last year by State Treasurer Todd Russ to defend a lawsuit challenging an anti-ESG law isn’t clear at this time. But the Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday will consider Bartlesville Sen. Julie Daniels’ SB 419 …
** Still on hold: Arkansas has halted its $54.1 million build-out of electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration froze federal funding. ** The Greek shipping company Eurobulk has been hit with a $1.1 million fine by a Texas judge after the company pleaded guilty to illegally discharging oily bilge water from one of its vessels. ** …
This week on Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen, Bob Anthony’s back (sort of) and a pair of stories on the need to get bureaucracy out of the way to fully develop America’s energy abundance.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for the first time revealed a man who was allegedly groped by Commissioner Todd Hiett leading to calls for Hiett to resign and targeted over his rate case votes has never come before the commission in public instances as suggested by Hiett’s detractors. In response to a …
Windy conditions and the lack of rainrall over the weekend increased wildfire dangers across the state as Oklahoma continued with a growth of dry conditions. A Sunday report from the Oklahoma Forestry Division stated that 15 new fires, some large, were attributed to escaped control burns on Saturday but the strong southerly winds on …
Oklahoma maintained a count of 45 active oil and gas rigs over the past week while nationally, the total increased by one to 593, according to the latest Baker Hughes rig count released on Friday. Oklahoma’s total is four more than one year ago. The U.S. count included a loss of two oil rigs leaving …
The anti-wind and solar farm movement in Oklahoma along with growning opposition to electric transmission lines apparently resonated with Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. He had been among state leaders that some of the groups formed to combat eminent domain for transmission lines and renewable energy farms had targeted to support their efforts. Drummond …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford joined the Trump administration in recent days in taking to the Senate floor to reverse what he labeled as “harmful energy regulations” created by the Biden administration. He said the regulations put the U.S. in energy emergency and urged solutions to fix it. Lankford, Chair of the Senate Finance …
President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday and Friday resulting in hundreds of layoffs at the National Weather Service, including some at the University of Oklahoma campus. In Oklahoma, considered to be right in the middle of “tornado alley,” the National Weather …
Arkansas saw two major energy developments in the past week. One involved the Trump administration’s freeing of $200 million in green energy funds for the state while the second involved plans to build at least three renewable energy projects in Arkansas. Carbon solutions platform Clearloop of Nashville, Tennessee announced a deal with Microsft to …