The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hereby announces an opportunity to comment on and request a public hearing on the Regional Haze Five Year Progress Report, a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision. The hearing, if one is requested, will be held on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the …
Put Oklahoma on the list of the states and groups that have sued the Environmental Protection Agency in a challenge of the agency’s new federal regulations for methane emissions at oil and natural gas locations. Attorney General Scott Pruitt joined the suits on Tuesday, claiming the EPA does not have the legal authority to create …
In a move to comply with “wording” demands of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will hold a special meeting Thursday to make changes in the definitions in its Underground Storage Tanks rules. “It’s a matter of wording,” explained Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Commission. “We just holding this emergency meeting in order to …
The Environmental Protection Agency now says jet engine exhaust is contributing to climate change and is endangering public health. The agency finalized its rules, determining that greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft are a danger to the environment. The move clears the way for federal regulation. It means regulations will soon cover the emissions of those …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is asking Environmental Protection Agency Director Gina McCarthy to correct her lack of geographic diversity on the list of candidates she nominated to serve on one of the agency’s advisory committees. In a recent letter, he pointed out how she has had a problem in making appointments in the past …
In a lawsuit filed in California by a coalition of environmental and public-health groups, it is alleged the Environmental Protection Agency failed to enforce 16 states and the district of Columbia to finalize plans to reduce ozone pollution. Oklahoma is not one of them. “Millions of people are relying on the EPA to protect them …
Four years after Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe took on the Environmental Protection Agency and its CAFE fuel standards, now there’s a report that maybe, just maybe, the EPA’s fuel efficiency testing might not work. It was back in 2012 when Sen. Inhofe was critical of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, “The CAFE standards …
Landfills nationwide now face new stands for methane gas emissions as set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As of last Friday, the final standards were released for new and modified municipal solid waste landfills and emission guidelines for existing ones. The EPA’s goal is to reduce methane emissions by about 334,000 tons a year …
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court has dealt a major blow to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its efforts to enforce Regional Haze rules covering the air over national lands in southern Oklahoma and Texas. The court stayed the EPA’s plan through pollution controls at certain power plants, siding with numerous power companies in Texas, …
Efforts by Republicans in the U.S. House to block funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Enforcement Division didn’t get far as they were defeated late Wednesday. Here’s how Politico’s Morning Energy Report laid out what happened: “On Wednesday night , lawmakers voted down some Republican amendments targeting EPA – including ones to block …
