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EPA Wants Feedlot Pollution Lawsuit Thrown Out of Court

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has responded to a lawsuit by several farm groups challenging a rule over animal feedlot pollution reporting requirements. The Agency is asking the D.C. Circuit Court to throw out the challenges to the rule that…

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PSO Honored by EPA for Energy Efficiency Programs

Tulsa-based Public Service Company of Oklahoma has been named a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Energy Efficiency Program Delivery Award is for the company’s efforts to increase the adoption of energy-ef…

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EPA Hauled Into Court Over Lack of Airline Emissions Standards

The Environmental Protection Agency continues to find itself hauled into court, whether it’s over the Clean Power Plan or the Waters of the U.S. Rule. Now it’s been sued by two environmental groups and accused of acting too slowly on airline emissions …

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Navajos Want EPA Head to Answer Questions About Agency’s Role in Environmental Disaster

The President of the Navajo Nation stands behind U.S. Senator John McCain’s move to subpoena the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, forcing her to testify before a Senate Committee field hearing exploring the Gold King Mine environmental disa…

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Oklahoma Farmer to Testify Before U.S. Senate Committee Exploring Impact of EPA Regulations

A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will take testimony Tuesday from Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Tom Buchanan and others as it explores the impact of new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Buchanan …

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McCain Irked at EPA Director’s Attitude toward Probe of Colorado Gold Mine Spill

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency might have some serious explaining to do before the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee where Sen. John McCain wants her subpoenaed to answer questions about last summer’s Gold King Mine disaster in Colo…

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Why Some States Sided with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

A writer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce analyzed the impact of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the one challenged by Oklahoma and more than two dozen other states and discovered those states fighting the plan will share the brunt of cutting the carbon em…

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Oklahoma Mayors Don’t Side with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

Of the more than 50 city and county governments from 28 states that recently filed a an amicus brief in support of the controversial EPA Clean Power Plan, not one was from Oklahoma.
But mayors in other energy states sided with the Environmental Protec…

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Cities, States and Environmental Groups Side with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and the other attorneys generals from 28 states have new opposition in their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection agency’s Clean Power Plan, the one put on hold by the U.S. Supreme court.
A coalition …

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Senators Want EPA to Increase Support for Biofuels

A bipartisan group of 19 U.S. Senators recently sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy urging her to continue the trend of increasing support for the nation’s renewable fuel sector.
“We remain concerned that it continu…

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