New figures from the Oklahoma Department of Employment Security show the state’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point, reaching 4.2 percent for February. The increase came as the nation’s jobless rate held steady at 4.9 percent. But the figures also sh…
A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace states that the nation’s largest coal mining companies depend greatly on subsidized federal coal and some have actually increased business because of what Greenpeace calls “corporate welfare for coal.”…
Environmentalists who say the Gulf of Mexico is their next front in the fight against oil and gas drilling made their point recently by protesting a federal auction of the oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. About 300 climate activ…
Environmentalists who say the Gulf of Mexico is their next front in the fight against oil and gas drilling made their point recently by protesting a federal auction of the oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. About 300 climate activists s…
New figures from the Oklahoma Department of Employment Security show the state’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point, reaching 4.2 percent for February. The increase came as the nation’s jobless rate held steady at 4.9 percent. But the figures also sh…
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are seein…
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are seein…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported nearly half of the oil pumped in the lower 48 states last year flowed from wells that were drilled sometime after the start of 2014, showing the reach of short-cycle shale production and technological…
Snowfall on Easter Sunday might have done what hundreds of firefighters couldn’t do in the past week and that was extinguish a wildfire that started in northern Oklahoma and burned into Kansas, scorching more than 400,000 acres of land.
A spokeswomanw…
Even as Oklahoma City billboards attack the wind industry and its tax credits in Oklahoma, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz says the Department of Energy will take part in the development of a $2.5 billion project to deliver wind-powered elect…
