Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is being accused by the Poultry Federation of laying an egg over his proposed judgment in the state’s 20-year old lawsuit over poultry pollution of the Illinois River in eastern Oklahoma. It’s Drummond’s proposed final judgment in the case of State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods Inc. in which …
August 2025 archive
Williams out with Sustainability Report
Williams is out with its latest Sustainability Report which offers a review of the firm’s environmental and safety performance and management and details of the company’s efforts on social and governance topics for the 2024 reporting year. The Tulsa-based natural gas firm said its 2024 carbon emissions rate was flat, it became the …
With hotter weather comes growing dryness in Oklahoma
Summer will be “roaring back” this week, proclaimed Oklahoma Mesonet Climatologist Gary McManus. In a recent Mesonet posting, he observed how the state went from no abnormally dry areas to about 4%. ” Enough so that the amount of Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions on the U.S. Drought Monitor map for Oklahoma QUADRUPLED!!! Okay, from 1% to …
Energy briefs
** The Trump administration moves to defund the Chemical Safety Board, which environmental and community advocates worry will leave a regulatory gap in the oversight of hundreds of petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast. ** Ford’s vehicle sales rose 14% to more than 612,000 in the last quarter, according to earnings that bested analysts’ expectations. …
Hydrogen project declared dead at Ardmore
Three months after Australian-based Woodside Energy told Ardmore city leaders their plan for a hydrogen energy plant was on hold, and strongly hinted it could be cancelled, the firm revealed the project indeed is dead. It was in April when the company suggested the project might not go ahead. An official with the …
Crude oil fell $2 a barrel on Friday and OK energy stocks finished with losses
Crude oil prices plunged about $2 a barrel on Friday and the tumble sent shock waves through Oklahoma energy stocks as most finished with losses for the day. Analysts blamed a possible production increase by OPEC+ as well as a weaker-than-exepcted jobs report in the U.S. Global benchmark Brent crudefutures dropped $2.03 or …