** Panic buying drains gas stations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia as Southeasterners react to the ongoing shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. ** In the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the FBI sent out an emergency alert to electric utilities across the U.S. to be on the …
May 12, 2021 archive
Lankford pushes strengthened security against ongoing cyber attacks from Russia
The cyber attack that shut down the Colonial pipeline had the attention of Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford during a Tuesday Senate committee hearing that explored cybersecurity. He questioned government leaders and expressed his concern that they seemed to be “very focused on what happens after the fact” but Sen. Lankford wondered “are we …
Stored crude oil total drops at Cushing
The amount of crude oil stored at the Cushing storage hub in northern Oklahoma declined in the past week. The American Petroleum Institute reports that the Cushing total fell by 1.2 million barrels for the week. The API also reported that U.S. crude supplies dropped 2.5 million barrels for the week ended May 7. It …
Los Alamos lab packed prohibited metal in sparking waste drum
A government report says titanium fragments that caused a nuclear waste drum to throw off sparks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico should never have been packed. The fragments are also prohibited at the underground disposal site near Carlsbad. Managers at both the lab and the Waste Isolation Pilot …
EPA hands out ‘brownfields’ grants to clean contaminated sites
Two of the 151 communities receiving more than $66 million in Environmental Protection Agency ‘brownfields’ grants announced this week are in Oklahoma. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma received a $300,000 grant to clean up a site on the Concho School property. Oklahoma City was the other recipient and will use its $300,000 …
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