Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday released the2020 Stitt Administration Annual Accomplishments Report, one which focuses on his administration’s responses to the historic COVID-19 pandemic, schools and teachers and economic growth.
“While 2020 looked a lot different from our first year in office, we have seen some great accomplishments across state government,” Governor Stitt wrote in a letter to Oklahomans included in the report.
Under the Energy Department section, he cited improvements in virtually every agency from the Department of Wildlife Conservation to the Department of Mines.
He pointed to the collaborative work by the Department of Environmental Quality, the Water Resources Board and the Oklahoma Rural Water Association to help water systems across the state.
The Governor’s report showed that the Water Resources Board working with the State of Arkansas drafted rules to determine phosphorus limit compliance to protect water quality in the Illinois River.
Gov. Stitt also said the Department of Environmental Quality using money from the Volkswagen Trust offered more than $1 million in grants to fund light-duty, electric vehicle charging stations at 15 locations in the state.
” This will further expand the electric vehicle-charging network across Oklahoma, which will help reduce air
emissions,” stated the report.
The report also stated that the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board cleaned up another 736 orphaned and abandoned well sites bringing the total restorations through the end of the Fiscal Year 2020 to more than 17,600.