Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt got his first-hand look over the weekend at the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. He toured the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site on Friday and got a briefing from on-the-ground EPA response personnel. While he toured the site, an EPA dive team carried out …
Tulsa U.S. District Court Judge James Payne handed a setback this month to the Pawnee Nation in an oil and gas development fight with the Interior Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He ruled against many of the arguments the tribe had made against BIA approved oil and gas developments it contended resulted in …
In recent days we’ve heard how Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm was excited about the future of North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation and how some experts felt the play could equal that of Texas’ Permian Basin. Now comes a report that North Dakota’s oil production has stabilized after two years of decline. The State’s Department …
Amidst a fight against a proposed giant $320 million Tyson food chicken production and slaughtering hub in northeast Kansas were cries of endangering people, the soil and water with industrial wastes. The colorful protest held recently in Leavenworth County featured signs that declared “No Tyson! No friggin’ chickens! No kidding!” It raised memories of the …
A Denver federal appeals court ruling has caused the Trump administration to reconsider how it approaches its review of greenhouse gas emissions in dealing with coal leases. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Bureau of Land Management had not adequately considered the emissions from four large coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder …
When Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and others on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee meet Wednesday, it’ll be for a confirmation hearing for the likely next general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency. Matt Leopold fits the mold of Scott Pruitt, the EPA Administrator who sued the Obama administration over its Clean Power …
With Oklahoma’s latest rig count showing the oil and gas industry continues to remain strong, new employment figures are showing the same indication. A report from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission showed the industry, classified under Mining, showed another 500 jobs were added in August. The July estimate had also been revised down by 300 …
