There’s a reason why Oklahoma is among the top-wind power states in the country. Its geographical location. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in a report issued this week showed how the Lower Plains region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico has the largest share of U.S. wind capacity at 44% as of August …
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Transportation Secretary in Kansas calls it quits
Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz resigned this week after four years on the job for Gov. Laura Kelly. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Lorenz is the first member of Kelly’s cabinet to leave since Kelly won re-election in November. Click here for Capital-Journal
Lucas wonders whether new energy office is mismanaged
Congressman Frank Lucas, using his powers as the Ranking Member of a House committee, has been asking a lot of probing questions of the Biden administration and its agencies. One of the latest is a letter to the Department of Energy to carry out oversight of the agency’s newly created Office of Clean Energy …
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** One of the government’s first non-binary officials has been charged with stealing a woman’s designer suitcase from the baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in September, the New York Post reported. Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, initially denied taking the Vera …
Senators want expanded production of E15 ethanol
U.S. Senators from corn states introduced legislation this week to expand the nation’s sales of E15, the higher blend of ethanol. Sens. Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota were behind the bill that also had the support for the first time of the American Petroleum Institute reported Reuters. Click here for …
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