Ten months after the Environmental Protection Agency’s Gold King Mine Disaster, the US House Committee on Natural Resources has passed three bills adding what members called “systemic problems in mining development and reclamation.” One is the Mining Schools Enhancement Act which focuses on the steady reduction in mining and mineral engineering programs across the country. …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is advising states not to take part in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Supreme Court suspended Clean Power Plan. The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said they should ignore the EPA’s latest announcement that it will take the next step in providing guidance for the Clean Energy …
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and State Attorney General Scott Pruitt have not commented about a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week to review the D.C. Circuit’s decision not to vacate the EPA’s air quality rule challenged by Oklahoma and nearly two dozen other states. Oklahoma was among 25 states and state agencies that …
Some U.S. Senators plan to put the Environmental Protection Agency in the spotlight again Tuesday by holding a subcommittee hearing on recommendations from the Inspector general and the Government Accountability Office. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) will chair the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight on Tuesday at …
At least one electric cooperative serving some Midwestern states makes it clear, it doesn’t think the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial Cean Power Plan is the way to go. And it’s almost as thought a government “catch 22” forced it to use coal to generate electricity. It’s what Michael McInness, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe used a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday to again condemn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, the one put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court. “The stakes are high when it comes to the Power Plan,” said the Senator in his opening comment as Chairman …
A U.S. Senate subcommittee exploring the impact of unfunded mandates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was told this week by the chief of Oklahoma’s Quapaw tribe the mandates are a heavy legal burden. John Berrey testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight. “We have a …
The State of Texas is about to legally challenge the methane gas emission rules handed down recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Texas Railroad Commission voted this week to ask Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a Petition for Review. “These rules are just another assault from the Obama administration in its war …
Chevron USA is still fighting the Environmental Protection Agency, contending that the Federal government should pay some of the cleanup costs at the Superfund site that once was the company’s Questa Mine in northern New Mexico. The company made recent arguments to the U.S. 10th Circuit court of Appeals in Denver, hoping to revive its …
Oklahoma’s Quapaw tribal Chief John Berrey will be among five witnesses testifying Tuesday before a Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as it explores unfunded mandates of the Environmental Protection Agency. Chief Berrey will testify before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight as it holds a hearing …
