August 6, 2024 archive

Oklahoma refunds millions to oil companies that don’t participate in abandoned well cleanup program

  Two environmental minded groups contend that Oklahoma would have been able to clean up hundreds more of orphan well sites had it not been for some major state oil and gas companies backing out of the voluntary funding program run by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. Capital and Main along with ProPublica reported that …

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Energy briefs

** Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled a bill recently to delay new vessel speed limits on the Atlantic coast. Whale advocates say the legislation would doom the North Atlantic right whale to extinction. The bill, the “Protecting Whales, Human Safety, and the Economy Act of 2024,” S. 4948, was introduced Friday. ** The …

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