Cleanup was underway this week off the coast of southeast Louisiana of an oil spill apparently caused by a leak from an abandoned pipeline. The U.S. Coast Guard said the leak happened near marshland along Lake Grand Ecaille, which is about 60 miles southeast of New Orleans. The owner of the abandoned line is listed …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is one of 13 Republican Attorneys General who recently fired off a letter to the Democratic attorney general in New York and a Massachusetts U.S. Senator chastising them for their climate change probe of Exxon. In the letter, the GOP Attorneys General say that if minimizing the risks of climate change can …
Houston-based Key Energy Services, Inc. announced on Wednesday that the New York Stock Exchange will commence proceedings to delist the company’s common stock based on “abnormally low” price levels. The NYSE also suspended trading in the Company’s common stock effective immediately, according to the company’s news release. An appeal by Key Energy Services is not …
Oil futures settled close to $42 a barrel on Wednesday after a government report revealed an increase in both gasoline and oil inventories in addition to a rise in crude production, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, September West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 91 cents, or 2.1%, to settle at $42.01 …
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First the Golden State Warriors got the Oklahoma City Thunder’s star Kevin Durant. Now the Bay area team wins a judge’s ruling allowing it to move out of Oakland and build a $1 billion arena in San Francisco’s Mission Bay area. Environmentalists fighting the project say they will ask a California appeals court to overturn the …
In a move to comply with “wording” demands of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will hold a special meeting Thursday to make changes in the definitions in its Underground Storage Tanks rules. “It’s a matter of wording,” explained Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Commission. “We just holding this emergency meeting in order to …
A federal agency has finally given approval of a nearly 200-mile Comanche Trail Pipeline to be built near El Paso in southern Texas. Approval came this week at the Federal energy Regulatory Commission for part of the natural gas pipeline that’s being constructed and operated by Energy Transfer Partners at the U.S. and Mexico boundary …
(From the State House) Suggestions for controlling and reducing the infestation of feral hogs in Oklahoma will be reviewed during an interim legislative study this year requested by three members of the state House of Representatives. The studies were requested by Reps. Brian Renegar, D-McAlester; Kevin Wallace, R-Wellston; and Sean Roberts, R-Hominy. House Speaker Jeff …
Already feeling the impact of the Obama administration’s war on coal, the state of Wyoming has decided to combat the green-energy promoters of the federal government by partnering with Japan. Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed an agreement this week calling for cooperation between the state and a consortium of Japanese companies in researching clean-coal technology. …
