Oklahoma congresswoman Stephanie Bice isn’t giving up on trying to stop the White House from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to countries that are considered enemies of the U.S. Furthermore, she wants to know why President Biden delivered some of it to China. This week, the Republican Representative reintroduced her Save America’s …
January 10, 2023 archive
Remaining emergency drought funds to be spent in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Farm Report, our sister website reported this week the Emergency Drought Commission in Oklahoma issued a directive regarding $5 million in unspent and unused funding. The Commission issued the order to direct all remaining funding to the Oklahoma Conservation Commission so it can distribute the funds through the existing Emergency Drought Cost-Share …
EPA and TC Energy ink deal for cleanup of Keystone Pipeline spill
A legally binding deal has been signed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the owner of the Keystone pipeline to clean up the 14,000 barrel crude oil spill that happened last month near Washington, Kansas. EPA and TC Energy Corp. signed a consent order that lays out the steps the company must take to …
Utility CEOs rolling in the dough while consumers are met with higher rates
A new report by Energy and Policy Institute revealed how CEOs of investor-owned electric and gas utilities, and that includes those in Oklahoma, were paid $2.7 billion between 2017 and 2021. The Institute reviewed corporate data and discovered the CEOs for the 58 companies received more than $629 million in 2021 which was a …
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** The ozone layer — the atmospheric shield that prevents harmful ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth’s surface — is on track to recover, United Nations (U.N.) scientists said on Monday. The U.N. said the ozone layer has shown recovery and will return to its 1980 levels over the next several decades. ** The Congressional Western …
Cost of Keystone pipeline leak cleanup still up in the air
Keystone pipeline operator TC Energy says it still doesn’t have a cost of the cleanup of the 14,000-barrel oil spill in northern Kansas. It’s what the company said this week, adding that it also doesn’t have a cause of the leak that happened in early December near Washington, Kansas. Click here for Reuters
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