** The US announced new sanctions on entities and people securing machinery for Iran’s defense. The move is meant to weaken Iran’s military amid the conflict, and comes as countries warn Iran is close to developing a nuclear weapon after it increased its production of near weapons-grade uranium. ** A team of chemical engineers at …
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Sen. Lankford and Rep. Brecheen want EPA to probe whether abortion drug is contaminating water supplies
US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Congressman Josh Brecheen (R-OK) are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the environmental and public health risks of the abortion drug mifepristone, warning that its chemical byproducts may be contaminating the nation’s water supply. “The American people deserve to know what contaminants might be present in their …
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** Hunters are up in arms over potential federal public land sales included in a U.S. Senate budget bill. Prominent groups like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Wyoming’s Muley Fanatic Foundation, and The Boone And Crockett Club all blasted the proposal. ** Europe will need to step up its role in space as NASA’s budget …
Judge—Illinois River is still polluted by poultry waste
A federal district judge ruled late Tuesday that the State of Oklahoma has sufficiently proven there has not been any substantive change in poultry litter pollution of the Illinois River Watershed (IRW) following trial. The ruling by Oklahoma Northern District Judge Gregory Frizzell included the finding that phosphorus from poultry waste continues to be …
Supreme Court overturns lower court ruling in Wynnewood Refinery fight with EPA
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a second ruling this week regarding the EPA but this one involved a case on appeal by an Oklahoma oil refining company and others that challenged a small refinery decision of the EPA. The Court ruled the Fifth U.S Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to have not referred …
Supreme Court sides with Oklahoma in EPA challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding Oklahoma’s challenge of the EPA’s rejection of the state’s “Good Neighbor” plan intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants. The Justices said the Denver federal appeals court was wrong to refer Oklahoma’s challenge to the D.C. Circuit Court of …
A pollution fight you can’t “pooh pooh” away
Call it what you want….manure, poop, waste, chicken litter or even something we won’t say in this story. But it’s still the focus of a decades-long fight that former attorney General Drew Edmondson started years ago with the poultry industry over the pollution of the state’s Illinois River. Since then, six attorneys general, two …
Report shows decline in oil-drilling spills in Colorado and New Mexico but more in Wyoming
A new report by the Center for Western Priorities shows there were fewer oil and gas-drilling related spills in 2024 than in 2023 in Colorado and New Mexico while there was an increase in Wyoming. The three states reported 2,709 drilling-related spills last year that totaled nearly 7 million gallons of oil, wastewater and …
Sen. Mullin joined Trump at White House to eliminate California EV mandates
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin is not only a big national supporter of President Trump but joined him Thursday morning at the White House when Trump signed into law a Mullin resolution permanently eliminating California’s radical electric vehicle mandates. “Today we put a stop to California’s costly and extreme Green New Deal agenda that …
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** General Motors’ $4 billion plan to move vehicle production from Mexico to the U.S. includes making gasoline-powered vehicles at a Michigan plant that was previously retooled to produce electric vehicles. ** The U.S. Justice Department finds the 1906 Antiquities Act authorizes the president to alter or eliminate national monuments designated under the law, opening …