As Politico’s Morning Energy reports, EPA Administrator and former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s had face-to-face meetings with 17 governors, state and regional environmental officials and five congressional lawmakers. The five in congress are Rep. Lamar Smith who chairs the U.S. House Science Committee, Rep. David McKinley and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, Luther Strange and …
President Trump’s recent move to roll back clilmate regulations on fossil fuels has prompted the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity to start talks about building a new coal plant somewhere in the U.S. Paul Bailey, ACCCE’s President and CEO said the talks are being held with an “unnamed state’s governor and lawmakers” about …
Oklahoma state Auditor Gary Jones has a plan to do something about Oklahoma’s budget problems and it revolves around the number ‘5’. He’s proposing a 5% gross production tax on oil and gas……and on wind production. And he says it’s time there was a moratorium tax credits made by the state. “We need to correct …
Environmentalists claimed a victory on Tuesday as an appeals court unanimously reversed a Bush-era farm pollution rule. In a 3-0 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority through rewriting the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) – aka Superfund — …
