The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to boost renewable fuels standards for 2017, increasing the amount of corn-based ethanol and biofuels that fuel producers will have to mix into diesel and gasoline. Under the standards announced this week, the EPA wants 18.8 billion gallons to be blended into the nation’s fuel supply next year which …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has decided the full panel of active circuit judges will hear the case of the Clean Power Plant as challenged by Oklahoma and a few dozen other states. The hearing was postponed until Sept. 27, a move considered unusual. The Washington Post indicated the decision by …
The Environmental Protection Agency finds itself being sued by environmental advocacy group, largely because of earthquakes in Oklahoma and the handling of wastewater through injection wells. The groups recently filed suit claiming the EPA has not adequately regulated the disposal of waste from oil and gas drilling. The lead group filing the suit was the …
Then there’s the Wyoming family that the Environmental Protection Agency threatened to fine more than $187,000 a day because it wanted to build a pond on their property in 2013. So Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming decided to fight and now he’s won. Republican U.S. Sen. John Barrasso announced the Johnsons will be able …
With his signature on a bill, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has suspended his state’s work on a plan to comply with the controversial efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carbon emissions using the Clean Power Plan. The law signed by Brownback suspends the state’s work and makes Kansas the third state to take such …
While Oklahoma and dozens of other states are fighting the Environmental Protection Agency over its war against coal-fired electric-generating power plants, EPA Director Gina McCarthy is professing the legal fight will not delay the country’s accelerating shift to cleaner sources of energy. The Associated Press reports it’s what McCarthy said over the weekend at …
When the Gold King Mine spill occurred last summer in southern Colorado, Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe jumped all over the issue in his capacity as chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He blamed the Environmental Protection Agency for the spill of toxic liquids into the Animas River north of Silverton. …
The legal battle is underway between Oklahoma and other states that filed a legal challenge months ago to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new ozone standard, one that was released last fall. More filings were made late last week in federal court with Oklahoma and other critics contending the 70 parts per bill is too low and …
Four Oklahomans in the U.S. House joined 140 other House members this week in sending a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy demanding answers about the EPA’s funding of a website and advocacy campaign to influence Washington State voters for more regulation of farmers and ranchers. Representatives Jim Bridenstine, Tom Cole, Frank Lucas and Markwayne …
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…
