Oklahoma Transportation Commissioners will get an update Monday morning on recent flood damage at Lake Texoma and the Red River in southern Oklahoma. Commissioners meet at 11 a.m. in Oklahoma City and will be briefed on a number of issues, including to the U.S.-70 Roosevelt Bridge causeway at Lake Texoma. They will consider awarding …
May 30, 2025 archive
Crude oil prices finished down on Friday
Crude oil futures closed the week of trading on Friday with moderate losses as traders anticipated a weekend decision by OPEC+ whether it would boost oil output for July. Weekly losses were expected to be about 1%. Brent crude, the global benchmark, finished down 25 cents or 0.39% to $63.90 a barrel. The US …
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** Washington, D.C. spent $200 million on a two-mile light rail route in downtown DC and now they’re tearing it up. After less than a decade of operation, the D.C. Streetcar is set to be phased out and replaced by an electric bus that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called a “next generation streetcar” when …
Texas legislative efforts fail to curtail wind and solar development
The efforts of some legislators in Texas to rein in the state’s wind and solar industry are dead after several of their bills missed a deadline in the state House before Monday’s end of the legislative session. One of the bills would have put strict limits on where wind and solar farms could be …
Future of proposed solar farm to be decided soon by Wagoner County Commissioners
Wagoner County residents will soon learn whether their county commissioners will support a proposed controversial solar farm near the town of Porter. The Nextera Energy Resources project, named “Persica” would cover nearly 1,500 acres in farmland and some residents are fighting it. The June 16 vote by county commissioners will be on a permit …