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Oil and Gas Rig Counts Grow in Oklahoma and the U.S.
Both Oklahoma and the nation added more oil and gas drilling rigs in the past week, according to figures released Friday by Houston-based Baker Hughes Company. Oklahoma added 6 rigs to reach 84 while the nation’s count grew by 16, hitting a total of 653. The newest figure nationally includes 13 more oil rigs to …
Anxiety Grows over Future of EPA
As we approach the end of 2016 as well as the Obama administration, many wonder what 2017 and a Donald Trump administration will mean for the environment and the laws in place to protect it. Of course there is anxiety among some over Trump’s vow to kill the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, the one …
Keeping an Eye on How the Government’s Wasting Our Money
He didn’t find any wasteful spending directly related to energy, but Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell’s Christmas Edition of Waste Watch reveals plenty of startling example of how federal money is going down the drain. But in the area of transportation, the Republican Representative cited the case of the National Institutes of Health spending nearly $50,000 …
Nation’s Ethanol Production Drops
Figures from the federal government show ethanol production dropped about 4,000 barrels a day this week from last week’s record high. The Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.036 million barrels a day which translated into 43.51 million gallons daily. Stocks stood at 19.1 million barrels which is a drop of 0.1% from a week …
Governor Points to Pruitt’s Work in Historic Water Bill
Even as he has been nominated by Donald Trump to become the next director of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, Attorney General Scott Pruitt is being praised for the work he did in getting an historic water agreement signed and passed by congress. While environmentalists are attacking Pruitt and saying his appointment will be like putting …
Oklahoma Still Has Cheapest Gasoline Prices Going into Christmas Weekend
As we head into the Christmas weekend, drivers are finding Oklahoma gasoline prices are still the lowest in the country. The state’s $2.02 average is tied with Arkansas for having the cheapest gasoline, according to this week’s release from AAA Oklahoma. “Our Oklahoma average today of $2.02 per gallon for self-serve regular is 17 cents …
Quake Rattles Central Oklahoma
The same week that Oklahoma regulators announced new earthquake rules stemming from growing fracking operations in the state’s two big oil plays, the STACK and the SCOOP, central Oklahoma experienced a 3.2 magnitude quake Thursday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 8:21 a.m. with an epicenter about 4 miles east-northeast of …
EPA Uses Court Motion to Poke Scott Pruitt’s Nomination
In fighting a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and attorneys general from other states, the EPA this week took time to poke Pruitt’s nomination to be the new EPA director and also blast the other states for requesting a delay in their suit. The states asked the federal courts in Washington, D.C. …
Bush Backs Pruitt to Lead EPA….says he’s Not an Anti-Science Boogeyman
To read what former Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush says of Scott Pruitt picked to head the EPA in a Donald Trump administration gives a reader no doubt about what he thinks Pruitt. “I cannot think of a person more suited to lead the Environmental Protection Agency than Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt,” said Bush writing …
Inhofe Says Change is Needed at EPA and It’s Not an Attack on the Environment
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says it is time for change at the Environmental Protection Agency and the call for change is not an attack on the environment but a conscious decision to move away from the unlawful means used by the Obama administration to implement policies rejected by Congress and the American people. Writing …