Despite not coming away with a victory in the Kansas Supreme Court, the Kansas Sierra Club has newfound optimism about challenging confined swine feeding operations in the state. The high court ruled some of the permits allowed by the Kansas Department of health and Environment were “moot” or had run their course, so the …
June 6, 2023 archive
House Committee launches investigation of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has come under investigation by a U.S. House Committee wanting to know more about her ties to an Indigenous environmental group from New Mexico that is pushing for a halt to oil and gas production on public lands. Haaland is a former New Mexico congresswoman who was appointed Interior Secretary …
One meeting at a time for Oklahoma Broadband Office
As the Oklahoma Broadband Office decides how and where to spend $558,209,835 in federal funding, it is pushing ahead with information-gathering meetings across the state, all in the name of creating the Oklahoma Broadband plan. The office’s goal is to eventually provide high-speed internet to 95% of the state’s population and do so by …
Despite rig loss, energy firms are pushing ahead with more drilling in Oklahoma
Days after Baker Hughes Co. reported the number of oil and gas drilling rigs active in Oklahoma had slipped by another three, bringing the state’s total to 43, filings for new well permits totaled 25 as released by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Nowata County along t he Kansas state line in northeast Oklahoma had …
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