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…
Tulsa-based Public Service Company of Oklahoma has been named a 2016 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Energy Efficiency Program Delivery Award is for the company’s efforts to increase the adoption of energy-ef…
The Environmental Protection Agency continues to find itself hauled into court, whether it’s over the Clean Power Plan or the Waters of the U.S. Rule. Now it’s been sued by two environmental groups and accused of acting too slowly on airline emissions …
The President of the Navajo Nation stands behind U.S. Senator John McCain’s move to subpoena the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, forcing her to testify before a Senate Committee field hearing exploring the Gold King Mine environmental disa…
A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will take testimony Tuesday from Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Tom Buchanan and others as it explores the impact of new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Buchanan …
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency might have some serious explaining to do before the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee where Sen. John McCain wants her subpoenaed to answer questions about last summer’s Gold King Mine disaster in Colo…
