Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin finally got their wish in the fight they started a year ago against the Biden administration and its EPA power plant rules that would have required existing coal-burning power plants and future ones burning natural gas to begin capturing their carbon dioxide in the 2030s. Saying …
Under DROGE, the Environmental Protection Agency has experienced some targeting for fraud and misspending, but the agency recently came through with more than $4 million for the construction of a new water tower in Seminole. The EPA Region 6 office recently notified Seminole of the awarding of $4,351,281 in funding requested by Congresswoman …
** U.S. and Chinese officials said they had agreed on a framework to put their trade truce back on track and remove China’s export restrictions on rare earths while offering little sign of a durable resolution to longstanding trade differences. ** A new lawsuit filed against Subaru and Toyota claims that the two automakers’ jointly developed electric …
The Trump Administration is moving forward with its effort to overturn a move by the Biden administration to give protection to the prairie chicken, a decision last year that the oil and gas drilling industry considered to be a roadblock to more oil and gas production. In recent weeks, the government filed a motion …
** Constellation announced it has received regulatory approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas for its previously announced acquisition of Calpine Corporation. ** Maryland regulators issue the final approval needed for US Wind to begin construction on a 114-turbine offshore wind farm, though local opposition remains strong and the possibility the Trump administration could intervene still …
Some officials in Colorado still hold hope that a US Supreme Court ruling last week didn’t stop their fight with the controversial Uinta Basin Railway that will carry crude oil from Utah through Colorado and in some cases, transport it to Oklahoma’s Cushing Hub. The court decision on the Uinta Basin Railway proposal in Utah …
** The Trump administration said Wednesday there is no viable path forward for California’s High-Speed Rail project and warned it may rescind $4 billion in government funding in the coming weeks. ** The crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned it off the coast of Alaska after a …
** As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, Dominion Energy has finished burying more than 2,500 miles of the most outage-prone power lines in Virginia. The work is part of the company’s Strategic Underground Program, which was launched in 2014. ** Two Cheyenne, Wyoming companies have their sights on building the largest magnesium operation in North America in …
** Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin are part of a group that traveled to the North Slope on Monday, promising to undo the Biden administration’s restrictions on crude oil development. ** An Alaska startup proposes a bitcoin mining data center on the North Slope that would be …
Billions of dollars in carbon capture projects funded by the U.S. government were cancelled on Friday by the Department of Energy as the Trump administration continued its money-saving push. At the same time, some of the projects were those approved in the waning days of the Biden administration. None were in Oklahoma but …
