An Oklahoma House Committee will hold its hearing and investigation Wednesday into the proposed hydroelectric project on the Kiamichi River. Reps. Eddy Dempsey of Valliant and Justin Humphrey of Lane asked for the hearing to be held by the House Natural Resources Committee following a grow list of opponents to the $3.1 billion project …
EV manufacturer Canoo has yet to announce a release date for its third quarter earnings report, but filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reflect how the firm’s CEO has advanced another $850,000 to keep the company afloat. That’s on top of another loan of $270,000, making for a total of $1.1 million in …
Facing hundreds of lawsuits in Colorado over a fire that burned more than a thousand homes as well as litigation from the monster wildfire that burned a million acres in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma, Xcel Energy says its insurance premiums have soared nearly 400% in the past year. As the utililty …
After weeks and weeks of no rainfall for much of the state, you can’t blame Oklahoma Climatologist Gary McManus for being a little excited Tuesday morning as he went wild with pictures predicting how much rainfall we’ll get this week. Now we sit back and wait to see just how much rain …
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s recent response to a judge’s decision to grant summary judgment in the lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s anti-ESG act raised some questions whether his comments were political in nature. In a press release made after Oklahoma County District Judge Sheila Stinson granted the summary judgment in Don Keenan’s lawsuit, Drummond …
Reports by Arkansas Business and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette show state regulators reopened the nearly $88 million rate hike proposed by Summit Utilities. It means the Public Service Commission will continue searching for information from Summit and its attempt to increase rates by an average of another $15.43 a month or 23% on residential …
A most interesting development exists in northwest Oklahoma when it comes to gasoline prices. Woodward is an island of low gasoline prices and surrounded by some of the highest averages in the state. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in Woodward County is $2.64 while surrounding counties are more than $3 …
** Heating and cooking with natural gas stoves is not associated with asthma in children or adults according to a major study published in The Lancet medical journal and funded by the World Health Organization (WHO). The study conducted an extensive meta-analysis and examined the health risks of cooking or heating with natural gas compared to …
In a column this week, Oklahoma Congresswoman Stephanie Bice lamented how the U.S. has become more dependent on foreign countries for energy resources. Seeking a third term in the U.S. House, Rep. Bice (R) put much of the blame on the Biden administration and its miscues in energy policies. Below is her entire column: …
The prospects that maybe, just maybe, there won’t be a wider Middle East war between Israel and its neighboring countries and territories of Lebanon, Gaza and Iran, sent crude oil prices plummeting more than $4 a barrel on Monday. It translated into a 6% drop for prices when instead of launching attacks on Iran’s oil …
