Anyone who drives I-35 from Oklahoma City south to the Texas state line would likely agree that most drivers are traveling 75 to 80 miles an hour. And on many days, those drivers going 80 are passed by other motorists. So Rep. Daniel Pae, a freshman House member from Lawton has filed House Bill 1071 …
The death toll is up to 85 from a massive weekend explosion at an illegal tap of a gasoline pipeline north of Mexico City. Another 58 are still hospitalized and some are in serious conditions. Dozens were attempting to scoop up gasoline after a break caused a geyser of gasoline to soar into the air. …
When Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin and other Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee hear what the Democrats are proposing in climate change legislation, it could be pretty radical to them. Consider the latest comments from New York’s freshman Democrat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Speaking on Martin Luther King day, she compared global warming …
Wind farm operators in Oklahoma and other states who intend to build new facilities are facing a year’s end deadline if they want to get a federal tax break before it expires. The federal renewable electricity production tax credit or PTC has a deadline of Dec. 31, 2019. Operators who begin construction of wind farms …
Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis has signed his first executive order as Governor and it focuses on the state’s conversion to electric cars. “Our goal is to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2040 and embrace the green energy transition already underway economy-wide,” said Polis. The executive order has a goal of getting more Colorado drivers into …
Two Kansas men face lengthy prison terms for defrauding the Defense Department out of nearly $13 million in government contracts. Federal prosecutors in Kansas City contend Troy L. Bechtel, 49 of Overland Park, Kansas was the main violator. He’s charged with two counts of major program fraud and two counts of lying to federal investigators. …
Five bills introduced in the Oklahoma legislature by four state Senators are targeting the wind industry. The bills created additional requirements for airport setbacks, fees for conversion to direct current electricity from wind farms and decreasing the time for the decommissioning of a wind farm. Broken Arrow Sen. Nathan Dahm’s Senate Bill 964 would require …
ConocoPhillips plans to release its fourth quarter and full-year 2018 financial and operating results next week. The Jan. 31 release will be made before the market opens on that Thursday. Company management will hold a conference call webcast at 11 a.m. central time. The company’s third-quarter 2018 earnings reported in October 2018 totaled $1.9 billion …
The Denver federal appeals court has ruled against the Bureau of Land Management in a 2013 dispute it had in attempting to inspect four wells on privately owned land in southwestern Colorado. The court called it a “key or lock” case. The suit was filed by Alexis and Mary O’Hare who owned 240 acres of …
A man who was considered to be one of the founders of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency died last week in Virginia. Douglas Costle was the EPA administrator during the Carter administration. Previously, he was a senior staffer for President Nixon’s advisory council on reorganizing the executive branch and led the study that recommended founding …
