Little wonder that Biden-administration critics contend it’s nothing but a remake of the Obama administration prompting some to call it the O’Biden administration. Even when it comes to energy and the environment. Check the list of new leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. POLITICO reported that Dan Utech, a …
A move by the EPA to extend the 2019 and 2020 compliance deadlines for biofuel waivers likely means they won’t be granted anytime soon because of a Supreme Court case involving at least one Oklahoma refinery. The agency has changed its mind. The EPA recently proposed extending the compliance deadlines under the Renewable Fuels …
Some environmentalists, upset with the EPA and Texas for not requiring tougher clean air rules for refineries, gas plants and chemical plants have decided to take their differences to court. Led by the Environmental Integrity Project, several environmental groups sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler this week alleging his agency looked the other way when …
Valero Energy Corp. agreed to pay a $2.85 million fine and to improve its emissions controls and fuel quality management to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act that the Environmental Protection Agency identified in an audit. The EPA said the San Antonio independent refiner produced millions of gallons of gasoline between 2012 and …
Democrats in charge of the U.S. House Transportation Committee are pushing ahead with a probe into claims that the EPA might have illegally destroyed Kansas water quality records even though the EPA and another federal agency say the claims are “baseless” and proven wrong. Rep. Peter DeFazio, (D-Ore.), chairman of the committee and Water …
The administrator over the Environmental Protection Agency region that covers Oklahoma and Texas says the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era methane emissions rules will save millions for the oil and gas industry. Ken McQueen is the Region Six administrator and addressed the rollback during a weekly Oilfield Strong webinar. The Midland Reporter-Telegram reported that …
While environmentalists have led legal challenges to many moves by the Trump administration’s EPA, some U.S. Senators, led by Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, are using the same tactic in challenging Obama-era rules and regulations of methane emissions from oil and gas operations. In short, they’re turning the table on the Obama rules and …
Scott Pruitt wasn’t among them but at least six former Environmental Protection Agency Administrators have called for a “reset” of the EPA following the Trump administration’s regulation reduction steps. Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General who was named EPA Administrator in 2017 only to resign in July of 2018 amidst a political scandal did …
State and federal environmental officials have announced they want to remove a longtime Collinsville pollution site removed from the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List for Superfund sites. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA say remediation and cleanup of the former Tulsa Fuel and Manufacturing Superfund site has been completed and …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe finds himself somewhat at odds with the EPA Administrator over the National Defense Authorization Act. US Senators earlier this week agreed to incorporate amendments to their version of the NDAA, S. 4049 (116), that would impose additional sanctions on the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline, boost carbon capture and sequestration technologies, promote advanced nuclear technologies and extend the popular …
