** Lordstown Motors filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, put itself up for sale, and announced a lawsuit against Foxconn, accusing its biggest shareholder and former partner of setting out to “destroy” its business. The electric vehicle maker, which specializes in pick-up trucks, made a Chapter 11 filing in a Delaware court while simultaneously starting legal action against Foxconn. ** …
June 27, 2023 archive
Missouri Senator works to ground Transportation Secretary
Missouri U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt wants to ground Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s use of private jets at taxpayers’ dime. The Republican Senator filed a bill to stop Buttigieg and other top Department of Transportation officials from doing the practice. “Secretary Buttigieg seems averse to traveling on the very commercial airlines that his department oversees. …
Wind and solar power beat coal for electricity production
All of those wind farms in Oklahoma helped generate more electricity than coal for the first time ever in the U.S. according to new federal information. E&E News recently reported coal lost out to wind and solar power. Together, the two renewable energy sources produced a combined 252 terawatt-hours in the first five months …
Cheniere inks long-term LNG contract with Chinese firm
Natural gas from Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays is likely headed to China over a long-term contract Cheniere Energy just signed. Cheniere, with a major gas line from the STACK stretching to the Gulf Coast, is the largest producer of LNG in the U.S. and signed a long-term sale and purchase agreement with China’s …
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