March 21, 2024 archive

Lucas-led committee approves handful of bi-partisan bills

  Approval of the transporation for NASA astronauts after they return to earth…..one of several bills approved by the House Committee led by Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas. His House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology passed eight bipartisan bills at a full committee markup. The legislation considered spanned various sectors, from space and energy to research …

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Supreme Court to decide water fight over Rio Grande river

  Texas and New Mexico are in a water fight—with the federal government and their case was heard this week by the U.S. Supreme Court. At the heart of the matter is Rio Grande Compact of 1938 reached between the two states in an agreement over how to divide the wataer from the Rio Grande …

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Abandoned wells lead to lawsuit by landowners in Colorado

    Some Colorado landowners don’t like the abandoned oil wells left on their land so they have gone to court. They sued Denver-based oil company HRM Resources and accused the firm of transferring hundreds of orphaned wells to a shell company to avoid millions in clean-up costs reported the Guardian. The report indicated the wells …

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Energy quick reads

** The Biden administration finalized a rule Wednesday that’s expected to make a significant amount of the new car market electric or hybrid. Under the rule, 56 percent of the new vehicles on the market in 2032 could be battery electric, while an additional 13 percent could be plug-in hybrids. ** Texas and New Mexico …

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