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Legislator says new state law is corporate welfare and should be abolished
Rep. Tom Gann, R-Inola, has filed House Bill 1381 to Repeal the Large-Scale Economic Activity and Development (LEAD) Act of 2022, a new law he says is nothing but corporate welfare. Last year, the Legislature passed House Bill 4455, the LEAD Act, which promised investment rebates for the cost of qualified capital expenditures for …
The politics of probing China’s connections to the U.S. EV market
The dependency of the U.S. electric car market on China not only has the attention of Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas in his capacity as chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, but elsewhere in the House and Senate. Lucas focused his attention last month on the questionable relationship with the Communist country …
Court favors Continental Resources in South Dakota oil well dispute
Oklahoma City’s Continental Resources won a federal court fight over a well operation in South Dakota. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri ruled in favor of the oil and gas company in a fight with a South Dakota couple who sued for damages to their land when Continental drilled a …
Indiana wants to follow Oklahoma in creating energy discrimination elimination law
Who’s the latest to join Oklahoma in identifying which banks and lending institutions consider climate change issues in deciding state pension investment decisions? A bill before the Indiana legislature would do like Oklahoma’s new law requires—elimination of business with those banks that consider environmental, social and governance factors when making the investment decisions. Click …
Kansas considers conflict-of-interest bill for wind and solar projects
Legislators in Kansas are considering a bill aimed at conflict-of-interest reporting requirements for public officials who might gain financially from wind or solar projects. The pending bill would prohibit elected officials from voting to approve such projects and if they violate the law, they would be forced to resign reported the Kansas Reflector. Click …
EIA—More than half of new U.S. electric-generating capacity in 2023 will be solar
The federal government says solar power projects will increase markedly this year across the U.S. A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration state that developers plan to add 54.5 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the U.S. power grid in 2023, according to the Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. More …
Headlines of other stories
** The FBI has captured two people, whom the agency describes as “racially or ethnically motivated” extremists, before they could attack Baltimore’s power grid, officials said Monday. ** Linde,, the world’s largest industrial gases company, said on Monday it will invest $1.8 billion to supply clean hydrogen to OCI’s blue ammonia plant in the U.S. …
Energy headlines
** The National Fire Protection Association believes firefighters are at greater risk responding to electrical vehicle fires than typical vehicle fires, in part due to a general lack of understanding. ** Senator Joe Manchin accused US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen of “not following the law” on electric vehicle tax credits as automakers push the …
Oil and gas production to break records
Alex Mills is the former President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. Even though President Joe Biden’s regulatory agencies continue to throw road blocks in the path of American oil and gas producers, the industry continues to respond positively to global and domestic markets and it is on a path to set …
House approved bill includes more Western Colorado oil drilling
The GOP-sponsored bill that won U.S. House approval to limit President Biden’s reduction of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve also includes amendments to increase oil and gas drilling on Colorado’s Thompson Divide. The amendments were added by Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert after the Biden administration proposed a 20-year withdrawal of the Divide from new …
