Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) participated in a House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing Wednesday on Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) and the future of wireless technology. In his questions to the witnesses, Mullin highlighted the need to move away from Chinese suppliers and instead focus on the innovations being made in …
Tulsa will be a test site for California-based electric vehicle maker Rivian’s delivery vans for Amazon. The Orange County Business Journal reported the announcement this week saying it was part of Rivian’s continued expansion across the nation with its vehicles. Amazon has a major warehouse distribution in Tulsa as well as in Oklahoma City. …
The governors of a dozen states on the West and East Coasts not only want to ban the sale of gas cars by the year 2035 but also to enforce such a ban on Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and the rest of the nation. The 12 governors made their pitch in a letter this week …
In addition to pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands, a move taken by President Biden earlier in the year through one of his many executive orders, the government has now canceled oil and gas lease sales through June. The U.S. Interior Department announced this week the cancellation while it was still reviewing …
After warning investors it didn’t anticipate much growth in the nationwide demand for oil-drilling and fracking services, Halliburton Co. tumbled in trading. Considered the world’s biggest provider of fracking services, Halliburton, the company that got its start in southern Oklahoma saw trading fall as much as 7.4% on Wednesday in the S&P 500 Index …
A Canadian company that operates two north Texas wind farms filed suit this week against Citigroup Inc. for denying the firm’s force majeure declarations during the historic February storm and billing it more than $100 million for replacement power. Reuters reported Shannon Wind near Henrietta, Texas and Flat Top Wind near Comanche, Texas are …
Crude oil prices took another tumble in Wednesday’s trading settling at prices that are more than $2 lower than the start of the week. West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery dropped $1.32 to $61.35 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark Brent crude for June delivery fell $1.25 …
The Oklahoma House passed a bill on Wednesday expanding the Rural Broadband Expansion Council. Senate Bill 802, authored by Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds and Sen. James Leewright R-Bristow, expands the Rural Broadband Expansion Council by two members, from 14 to 16. One additional member would be a Wireless Internet Service Provider appointed by the Speaker …
Like Rep. Stephanie Bice, Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology wants important climate change information and not just the creation of another federal office. He spoke along with Rep. Bice at the opening of a Climate Change hearing held by a subcommittee on the Environment …
Oklahoma Congresswoman Stephanie Bice urged others on a House Committee hearing to avoid creating more bureaucratic layers as they explored climate change and how the government can provide information. Rep. Bice spoke as the ranking Republican of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment. The subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Working …
