A bill to increase the hiring of more court reporters for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission won approval this week in a House subcommittee. Rep. Nick Archer (R-Elk City) proposed HB3177 in an effort to increase the number of full-time reporters in the commission’s judicial court system. He said the corporation commission is “grossly understaffed” …
Just as some Oklahoma leaders have expressed extensive concern over the impact that data centers will have on residential electric bills, the issue is of concern at the White House. POLITICO reported this week the Trump administration wants what some Oklahoma legislators want—to have the data center developers pay for the tremendous amount of …
Despite an interim legislative study critical of the use of biosolids on farmland in Oklahoma, members of a state House subcommittee felt there is a need for another 5 years of study. Two members of the House Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources subcommittee voted against five more years of determining the safety of spreading …
** In the coming days, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to revoke a determination that has underpinned the federal government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.That scientific conclusion, known as the endangerment finding, determined that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are supercharging storms, wildfires, drought, heat waves and sea level rise, and …
Oklahomans are not the only ones raising questions about the amount of water that might be needed as data centers are being built in the state. State officials in Virginia, the nation’s biggest source of data centers, more than 600, are raising the same kind of questions and challenges following announced plans by Google …
After last week’s announced merger of Devon Energy and Coterra Energy and the decision to move Devon headquarters to Houston, Coterra’s leader explained the decision will allow the newly-formed firm take advantage of its natural gas production. But he also pointed out how the nation is in desperate need of more pipeline transportation of …
If a prediction from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is accurate, natural gas users better hang on tight for the next two months. Natural gas prices, based on an EIA study, will skyrocket 40%. EIA raises natural gas price forecast following increased heating demand amid severe winter weather Natural gas prices rose sharply in …
With the impending departures of Expand Energy and Devon Energy, firms moving their headquarters to Houston, it leaves one major oil and gas firm in Oklahoma City—Continental Resources. The company founded by Harold Hamm is still considered the largest privately held oil and natural gas producer in the world. In addition to being the …
After surging over 1% earlier in the day, crude oil prices fell on Tuesday while the U.S. continued talking with Iran about its nuclear development program. Investors remained wary whether the U.S. and Iran could end up by taking military action. The slight drop in prices came a day after the U.S. warned U.S. flagged …
https://www.facebook.com/reel/786989143811833 Going in depth into the departures of Expand Energy and Devon Energy from Oklahoma City. What really prompted this week’s decision by Expand Energy to relocate headquarters to Houston, Texas? Speculation abounds from Scott Mitchell as he talks Energy with Jerry Bohnen.
