The lawsuit filed by eleven states accusing three of the biggest Wall Street asset managers of running an “investment cartel” to depress the output of coal is slowly making its way through a Texas U.S. District Court. Oklahoma did not join the lawsuit filed last year by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 10 …
Tulsa’s Williams Cos. has won approval from federal energy regulators to move forward with a Northeast pipeline project with political ramifications involving the White House, New York’s governor and New York City activists. Approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory commission came in a 61-page order more than six years after the company sought approval …
NextEra Energy awaits a decision by federal energy regulators on its move to reopen the shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant located in Iowa. The company filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on July 25 seeking to reclaim interconnection rights that were previously transferred from the nuclear plant to a solar development. The …
In order to meet the growing demand for electrical power because of increased new data centers in Colorado, one electric cooperative built a new gas plant in 20 months in the northeast part of the state. The 162 MW Mountain Peak Power Plant, located about 35 miles northeast of Denver, was built by electric …
The growth of wind blade disposal operations in Oklahoma has the attention of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission which recently was given a report regarding the side business of the wind farm industry. “These recylers are drawing a lot of attention,” explained Mark Argenbright, Director of the OCC’s Public Utilities Division in a recent …
Some of the recent utility rate hikes made by Oklahoma utilities pale in comparison to the one proposed by El Paso Electric in southwest Texas. It wants a $93 million rate hike that would skyrocket residential rates by an average of $22.39 a month, meaning additional costs of hundreds of dollars a year. …
** In a huge win for public health and the environment, a U.S. District Judge has ordered Chemours Chemical Company to immediately suspend the discharge of dangerous “forever chemicals” into the Ohio River from its facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia. ** California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies …
New U.S. sanctions against Iran’s oil revenue stream resulted in a 1% gain for crude oil prices on Tuesday. As reported by Reuters, the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned a network of shipping companies and vessels led by an Iraqi-Kittitian businessman for smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil. The move resulted in …
Oklahoma’s Corporation Commissioners are bracing for an anticipated flood of new rate requests thanks to a new law that utilities lobbied to get, but is one that Commissioners opposed and now believe it could be unconstitutional. The bill that one attorney charged stripped Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners of their authority in how quickly they handled …
The Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics has been busy upgrading weather systems at some of Oklahoma’s airports. Seven airports recently received the Automated Weather Observation Systems with funding from the Aerospace and Aeronautics Department. The seven are Ada, Alva, Claremore, Fairview, Grove,South Grand Lake and Sallisaw. The upgrades are part of a …
