Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ordered her department to begin the removal of the world “squaw” from place names on federal land. The word is considered to be highly offensive to Native Americans because of its racist-related reference to women. Squaw is used in at least 650 place names on federal lands reported Reuters. It …
Plutonium from South Carolina to be shipped to New Mexico
If a report is correct, plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina will be transported for storage to New Mexico next year. It will be trucked to a salt mine repository for entombment, reported the Aiken Standard newspaper in South Carolina. The underground storage site is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in …
Final phase begins in Enid’s $300 million water project
Enid city leaders recently held another groundbreaking in the city’s more than $300 million project to bring water 70 miles away from Kaw Lake to the city. The latest venture is a future water treatment plant that will take nearly two years of construction to finish. The treatment plant is intended as a final …
Oklahoma leaders blast Build Back Better
When the Build Back Better bill lands in the U.S. Senate, its chances of approval are even narrower than those in the House. We know Oklahoma Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford are strong critics of the massive social-spending bill that has been called “dangerous” and another step to a socialist form of government …
Environmental group says Denver power plants are racist in location
A textbook example of environmental racism. It’s how the Sierra Club describes power plants in Denver, Colorado. In a new report, the environmental group said that for decades, low-income communities of color in Denver were “disproportionately burdened by pollution from multiple sources, including highways that cut through neighborhoods, oil refineries and power plants that …
ONG’s $1.3 billion in storm costs to be reviewed by regulatory judge
A hearing over an agreement covering the more than $1.3 billion in February storm natural gas costs by Oklahoma Natural Gas begins Monday morning before an Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The hearing will cover a proposed settlement of the case that focuses on ONG’s extreme purchase costs in the amount …
Crude oil hit 7-week low in Friday’s trading–energy stocks slid too
Another big drop in crude oil prices was recorded Friday as crude fell to a 7-week low in the markets. It also sent Oklahoma energy stocks tumbling for the day. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for December delivery fell $2.91 to $76.10 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That amounted …
Oklahoma Reps condemn Build Back Better
While Democrats celebrated passage of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act approved Friday in the House, Oklahoma’s congressional delegation was condemning the measure with one Representative calling it dangerous. “At a time when energy costs are skyrocketing, it’s troubling that this bill rejects an all-of-the-above approach to energy research and instead focuses almost entirely on …
New EPA Regional administrators named
The Environmental Protection Agency announced the appointment of three new regional administrators. The Region 8 Regional Administrator will be KC Becker who will handle the implementation of the Biden administration’s environmental agenda in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and with 28 Tribal Nations. “With her background on critical climate change …
Continued poor highway ranking for Oklahoma
Despite the seemingly never-ending construction projects encountered by motorists on I-35 in Oklahoma, the state still ranks 36th in the nation in overall cost-effectiveness and condition according to the Annual Highway Report by Reason Foundation. This is a two-spot decline from the previous report, where Oklahoma ranked 34th. Oklahoma ranks in the bottom half of states in …
