Her views on the environment are considered to be too extreme for Republicans on the U.S . Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee, but the committee will vote Thursday on the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland to be the Biden administration’s Interior Secretary. Many observers think the New Mexico Democrat will win a positive …
Republicans in the Colorado State Senate fought the appointments of Gov. Jared Polis to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission but in the end, their arguments over the lack of appointees from rural areas of the state fell by the wayside. The Colorado Senate approved the panel of so-called experts who will make …
Missouri legislators prepare to take up a bill that would ban utility companies from taking land through the use of eminent domain. The bill is aimed at the Grain Belt Express power project which is designed to carry wind-powered electricity from south west Kansas to the state of Illinois. The transmission line must go …
After being the Oklahoma State Budget Director for the past two years, Shelly Paulk was named to the Oklahoma Tax Commission by Gov. Kevin Stitt. Paulk has worked with the state of Oklahoma since November 2016 and was promoted to State Budget Director in 2019. Click here for story from McCarville Report.
An Iowa company launched a huge $2 billion effort to capture carbon dioxide from 17 Midwestern ethanol plants and pipe it to North Dakota for storage deep underground. Summit Carbon Solutions is behind the effort which could be operational by 2024.It would require a pipeline to be constructed from Iowa to North Dakota. It …
The Wisconsin-based utility WEC Energy Group acquired a 90% stake in the Jayhawk Wind Farm under construction and expected to be online by the end of 2021 in eastern Kansas. WEC purchased the controlling share in a $302 million agreement while the remaining 10% of the wind farm in Bourbon and Crawford counties will …
When Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores Inc. started trucking in gasoline to its 75 locations in Texas, it was part of a first in Texas in decades and revealed just how badly the state was harmed by the recent winter storm. It meant Texas was being forced to truck in gasoline from other …
Reports indicate that 150 WPX Energy workers in Tulsa will move to Oklahoma City to become employees of Devon Energy following its recently-completed acquisition of WPX. The Tulsa World reported that 250 other workers will either retire or leave the company this year. More than half of the 250 did not want to relocate …
What caused the latest slip in crude oil prices in the U.S. and Europe? Reports suggest it is growing fears that the crude oil consumption by China is slowing and that OPEC might increase its global supply after meeting this week. As OK Energy Today reported earlier, Brent crude fell 1.1% on a 73 …
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