March 20, 2024 archive

Energy Secretary promises Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be back to level from two years ago

  When the Biden administration resorted to using the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring down gasoline prices two years ago, it led to heavy criticism from Oklahoma’s congressional delegation. In no uncertain terms, they were angry about what they labeled a political move that put the nation’s national security at risk. In a column …

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Energy quick reads

** BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana has resumed normal operations more than six weeks after a power outage prompted the energy giant to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers. ** The chief of the largest US producer of natural gas has warned that a lack of pipelines and storage facilities will trigger dramatic …

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Three Oklahoma counties are among nation’s top 20 for highest rate of big truck fatal crashes

  Three of the top 20 U.S. counties for deadly big truck crashes are in Oklahoma. So reports AutoBlog which cited figures from the  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash data. The data showed that in 2021, Oklahoma recorded 1,085 fatal crashes statewide and large trucks were involved in 127 of them or 11.7% of …

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AG Drummond has an environmental legal fight on his hands

  Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 23 other attorneys general who sued the EPA over the agency’s oil and gas methane rule aren’t alone in legal efforts regarding the rule. They now have a fight on their hands. Twenty Democratic state attorneys general filed a motion this week in support of the Environmental Protection …

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