More than 55,000 Oklahoma homes and businesses are one step closer to receiving high-speed internet service, thanks to recent votes by the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board to authorize broadband infrastructure expansion projects in 57 counties. Once all necessary agreements are executed, the 142 approved projects would provide broadband to nearly a quarter of locations without …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners plan to hold a special meeting this week to begin the early stages of reviewing the $332.5 million rate hike request by Oklahoma Gas and Electric. It will be during a Tuesday afternoon meeting and the commissioners are not expected to dig deeply into the request. That will come later when …
The House Science committee chaired by Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas has started an investigation into whether the Biden administration fabricated a paper trail in order to shut down a chemical plant in Louisiana. At least, the Republican leaders on the committee have begun the probe. Leaders of two subcommittees, Max Miller of Ohio …
The Biden administration just sold the Federal Helium Reserve, a deal that involves pipelines in Oklahoma, Kansas and the Texas Panhandle, and it worries some in the medical community. The reserve is located in a large underground facility in Amarillo and supplies up to 30% of the helium used across the country. The helium …
(AP Photo/Morgan Lee) Small and moderate sized oil producers fought it but a move to update New Mexico’s oversight of the oil and gas industry narrowly passed a legislative committee. The bill would rewrite parts of the state’s Oil and Gas Act which was created in the 1930s, long before New Mexico became the …
Crude oil bounced up 3% in Thursday’s trading and Oklahoma energy stocks did the same with some firms recording gains stronger than 4% for the day. It was the highest close for crude oil prices since December, thanks to faster-than-expected growth in the last quarter plus increased tensions in the Red Sea. West Texas Intermediate …
The lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Oklahoma Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, a suit filed with the support of the Oklahoma Public Employees Association, is apparently a long road away from going to trial—-if it ever does. OK Energy Today reported earlier in the month how State Treasurer Todd Russ asked an Oklahoma …
Williams Cos. plans to host what it calls a Clean Energy Expo in Washington, D.C. next month and release its fourth-quarter earnings report a day later. The Tulsa firm stated this week that the Clean Energy Expo in the nation’s capitol will be held Tuesday, Feb. 13 and will focus on how Williams and …
For a company that is banned by the state of Oklahoma from doing investments with state pension plans over its ESG discrimination of the oil and gas industry, BlackRock Inc. sure makes it appear it is doing just the opposite. As we’ve reported this week, filings with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission revealed …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin used a Senate committee hearing this week to be critical of the Biden administration’s friendliness with anti-plastic activists in deciding the implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act. It came as he questioned Dr. Feedhoff, who is the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention …
