Oklahoma is considered among a handful of states with the greatest cancer risk to oil and gas workers from methane and air toxics emissions in the industry, according to a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. The study found that areas with the greatest health risk are generally located in states with the …
As the old Frank Sinatra song goes, “Nice work if you can get it, you can get it if you try.” It’s what some state legislators are saying about the $250,000 job just landed by former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas. She was named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment …
The wind industry was under attack again as it was blasted by Oklahoma Secretary of Finance Preston Doerflinger due to last month’s 13 percent decline in General Revenue Fund collections as a result of tax rebate and incentive payments to participating businesses, according to an Associated Press report issued on Tuesday. Doerflinger indicated that $3.3 …
Oil futures continued their descent further from the key $50 a barrel mark on Tuesday as a government report revealed yet another increase in U.S. crude inventories, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, July West Texas Intermediate crude fell 39 cents, or 0.8%, to end trade at $48.49 a barrel, resulting …
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A new study by geophysicists at Southern Methodist University in Dallas shows two giant sinkholes near the small West Texas towns of Wink and Kermit have grown unstable and could increase in size. The sinkholes are a mile apart and satellite radar indicates they appear to be expanding and according to the researchers, …
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and State Attorney General Scott Pruitt have not commented about a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week to review the D.C. Circuit’s decision not to vacate the EPA’s air quality rule challenged by Oklahoma and nearly two dozen other states. Oklahoma was among 25 states and state agencies that …
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. was back in a New York federal court this week fighting with bond trustee Bank of New York Mellon Corp. over hundreds of millions of dollars in contract damages stemming from what was described as a botched bond buyback. The fight is over a reversed May 2013 order by Manhattan …
Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell and other members of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform await a response from Secretary of State John Kerry after issuing a second subpoena against his Department in its probe of the Keystone XL pipeline issue. The GOP-controlled Committee issued the subpoena last week to force the …
