Republicans, including Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas, piled on the Biden administration’s Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday for its climate disclosure rule. Lucas and other members of the House Financial Services Committee spoke out against the rule during a hearing that featured Elad Roisman, Acting Chairman of the SEC and Robert Stebbins, General Counsel of …
The chairman of the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance says it’s time two of Oklahoma’s state leaders work together in defending the state’s oil and gas industry and not be different in their stances. Writing in an opinion piece entitled “Defending Oklahoma’s Energy Sector: A Call for Unity and Strategic Action,” Tom McCasland III applauded …
When winds of 70 mph to 100 mph were forecast last week in Colorado, utility company Xcel Energy thought it was doing the right thing by implementing pre-planned power outages to more than 55,000 customers along the Front Range. It wanted to prevent wildfires. Now Boulder County officials are critical of the utility for …
(Pajarito Powder CEO Tom Stephenson and project principal investigator Michele Ostraat stand in Pajarito’s new facility in December 2023. Jon Austria / Journal) The federal government just handed out $20 million for a clean hydrogen energy project in New Mexico and it all went to one company. The $20 million from the U.S. Department of …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners are to meet Thursday to consider actions that will affect the rates paid by utility consumers. During the 1:30 p.m. meeting, the three commissioners will hold a public hearing on OGE’s application for a fuel adjustment clause case (PUD2023-000055). The hearing will also focus on the utility’s financial hedging program. A …
Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole will be in a major leadership role in the House after being picked to be the next Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The Committee is considered one of the more powerful and influential committees in the House because it is responsible for passing appropriation bills along with its Senate …
Two weeks after an 18-year old worker on an Interstate 35 bridge was killed in a work zone accident in northern Oklahoma, the state prepares to observe an annual work zone awarness week April 15-19. Entitled Make it Home Safe; Make Oklahoma Safe, the week is observed by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and …
** The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) decreased its forecast for U.S. coal exports following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the resulting closure of the Port of Baltimore. In its April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA reduced its forecasts for U.S. coal exports for April by 33% and for May by 20% from previous …
Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen take a look at how the Oklahoma State Fair coliseum-naming rights controversy focused media attention on the struggle between consumer groups and local utilities over the deployment of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds destined for the modernization of Oklahoma’s transmission grid. Link to this article: https://www.news9.com/story/661585ac1b4a5c7f56a8d163/mitchelltalks-energy:-colossal-coliseum–chaos
Crude oil prices suffered a dollar a barrel loss in Tuesday’s trading as Middle East countries encountered resistance to their proposed peace in Gaza where Israel is still attempting to eliminate Hamas. There are existing concerns that without an end to the fighting, Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, might be drawn into the war. US benchmark …
