Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) to introduce two pieces of legislation aimed at reforming the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), in order to streamline infrastructure projects. The first bill, the Federal Permitting Modernization Act of 2020, establishes a series of deadlines for agency action under …
A handful of cities and towns in northern Colorado will soon get electricity supplied by a wind farm located near the Wyoming border. Testing of Platte River Power Authority’s largest source of wind energy began late last week after construction recently concluded on both the Roundhouse Renewable Energy Project and the generator outlet connecting the …
Broad Reach Power, a rapidly growing energy storage independent power producer (IPP) based in Houston which owns a three-gigawatt portfolio of utility-scale solar and energy storage power projects in Montana, Wyoming, California, Utah, and Texas, has announced that it will build 15 utility-scale battery storage plant sites in areas near Houston and Odessa by the end …
Witnesses encouraged members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to think holistically and consider environmental justice issues into their responses to the Covid-19 crisis during a Tuesday hearing. But Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin, a Republican member of the committee also offered criticism to those playing the “blame” game. “It’s absurd to blame the President …
The old saying for a winning poker hand is “read ’em and weep” but state officials in Oklahoma are on the losing side as tax collections are down and revenue on the oil and gas gross production taxes plunged badly in May. General Revenue Fund collections were down 15% from a year ago. But …
Louisiana might very well become the next state to intensify a crack down on environmental protesters who trespass on energy company properties. Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat has been sent a bill that would punish trespassing protesters with a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in prison. The bill amends existing law that …
** Several Chinese telecommunications companies have operated in the United States for years without adequate federal oversight, a bipartisan Senate report warned Tuesday. ** A startup called Planet Labs says it has enough satellites floating around the earth that it can snap at least one photo of every spot on the planet every single day. ** A top scientist at Harvard University …
Energy companies aren’t the only ones shutting down operations. So is Signet Jewelers, a company that plans to close at least 400 stores nationally. However, Bill Hancock, the Business Services and Rapid Response Coordinator at Oklahoma’s Office of Workforce Development said he isn’t sure what the impact will be in the company’s Oklahoma operations. …
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The new standard is the first building performance standard in the Midwest and just the fourth of its kind nationwide, following the adoption of similar standards in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Washington state …
The U.S. Energy Information Administration raised its 2020 forecast for West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude oil prices and lowered its expectations for U.S. crude-oil production, according to the Short-Term Energy Outlook report released Tuesday. The EIA pegged its 2020 WTI oil price forecast at $35.14 a barrel, up 16.7% from its May forecast. It …
