The fight over the lesser prairie chicken might not be finished. A coalition of environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contending that the bird remains in danger of extinction. The filing came only four months after the federal government gave up a court fight to keep the bird …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Division issued an advisory on Monday as new data from the Oklahoma Geological Survey and the United States Geological Survey revealed a newly discovered fault near the site of the 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Pawnee, Oklahoma on September 3, according to a report by News9.com. Based on the …
U.S. solar power capacity grew by more than two gigawatts during the second quarter of 2016, representing an astonishing 43 percent increase from the same period last year, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report released on Monday by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. “We’re seeing the beginning of an …
The Senate is poised to vote Tuesday on the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (S. 2848). The $9 billion bill package would authorize 25 water development projects in 17 states across the country, including $280 million earmarked for the lead-contamination drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The House passed a limited $5 billion WRDA …
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux’s effort to block a four-state oil pipeline got a lifeline when the federal government temporarily stopped the project, a move some say likely may forever change the way all energy infrastructure projects are reviewed in the future. Just minutes after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied the Standing Rock Sioux …
Corvex Management activist investor and former Williams Companies board member, Keith Meister, has fired a second shot at the Tulsa-based pipeline company. In yet another open letter to Williams’ three newly appointed independent directors, Meister urged them to form a strategic review committee in order to examine the merits of a possible strategic consolidation, according to …
