The same day Oklahoma City police said that energy billionaire Aubrey McClendon’s March death was the result of a fiery traffic accident and not suicide, the state medical examiner issued a similar finding. “The cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma due to motor vehicle collision. The manner of death is accident,” …
More than two months after Oklahoma energy leader Aubrey McClendon, one of the co-founders of Chesapeake Energy, died in a fiery SUV crash in Oklahoma City, police are calling it a traffic accident. It was not suicide by the 56-year old energy magnate. His death on March 2 came a day after an Oklahoma City …
A U.S. Senate subcommittee exploring the impact of unfunded mandates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was told this week by the chief of Oklahoma’s Quapaw tribe the mandates are a heavy legal burden. John Berrey testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight. “We have a …
The State of Texas is about to legally challenge the methane gas emission rules handed down recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Texas Railroad Commission voted this week to ask Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a Petition for Review. “These rules are just another assault from the Obama administration in its war …
August is when the 2016 Oklahoma Unmanned Aerial Systems Summit will be held at the National Weather Service in Norman. The 6th annual statewide summit is sponsored by the Unmanned Systems Alliance of Oklahoma, or USA-OK. The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission plans a presentation addressing legal and public policy issues of Unmanned Aircraft Systems on the evening …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says the chemical safety bill approved by the Senate and sent to the President to be signed into law is an historic piece of environmental regulatory reform. The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act awaits the President’s signature after the Senate approved it Tuesday with a …
The Iowa Utilities Board voted this week to give the green light for a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy transfer Partners to begin work in the state as part of a nearly $4 billion pipeline to carry Bakken oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The vote was 2-1 on the three member board in favor …
Developers of a natural gas pipeline in Vermont say the protest that resulted in the arrests of five people this week didn’t impact their work plans. Dozens protested in Williston at the site where Vermont Gas is building an extension of the transmission network 41 miles from Colchester to Middlebury. One woman locked herself to …
Oil futures continued trading higher on Tuesday, besting marks not seen since last year, according to Bloomberg Marketwatch. July West Texas Intermediate crude added 67 cents, or 1.4%, on the New York Mercantile Exchange to end trading at $50.36 a barrel. August Brent crude, the global benchmark, tacked on 89 cents, or 1.8%, to settle …
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett and three former Williams Companies chief executive officers joined forces in an effort to block the company’s merger with Energy Transfer Equity LP, according to a Bloomberg report. “My city will bear a very substantial cost for a transaction that destroys value for the shareholders it is supposed to benefit,” said …
