Less than a year after Attorney General Gentner Drummond fired an attorney hired by the State Treasurer to defend a lawsuit against Oklahoma’s anti-ESG Act, a State Senate committee approved a measure to give the Treasurer the authority to hire an in-house lawyer. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-0 in support of Sen. …
In a split decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in support of an Oklahoma Corporation Commission ruling against OG&E’s attempt in 2018 to provide electrical services outside its certified territory in southeast Oklahoma. It was 5-3 decision by the supreme court with one justice “disqualified” from the appeal brought by Oklahoma Gas and Electric …
The more than 80 wind turbines in Osage County ordered demolished by a federal judge will remain for a while after a federal court granted a stay in the order. Osage Wind, LLC, a subsidiary of Enel Green Power North America sought the stay following a judge’s ruling last year. The company is appealing …
A Federal Judge in Kansas has dismissed five lawsuits that challenged hundreds of millions of dollars in excess natural gas costs stemming from the 2021 Winter Storm Uri, the same storm that resulted in billions of dollars to be footed by ratepayers in Oklahoma. One of those named in the lawsuits was Kansas Gas …
