Category: EPA

Why Some States Sided with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

A writer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce analyzed the impact of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the one challenged by Oklahoma and more than two dozen other states and discovered those states fighting the plan will share the brunt of cutting the carbon em…

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Oklahoma Mayors Don’t Side with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

Of the more than 50 city and county governments from 28 states that recently filed a an amicus brief in support of the controversial EPA Clean Power Plan, not one was from Oklahoma.
But mayors in other energy states sided with the Environmental Protec…

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Cities, States and Environmental Groups Side with EPA in Clean Power Plan Fight

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and the other attorneys generals from 28 states have new opposition in their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection agency’s Clean Power Plan, the one put on hold by the U.S. Supreme court.
A coalition …

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Senators Want EPA to Increase Support for Biofuels

A bipartisan group of 19 U.S. Senators recently sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy urging her to continue the trend of increasing support for the nation’s renewable fuel sector.
“We remain concerned that it continu…

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Pipeline Spill Leads to EPA Fine Against Williams Division in West Virginia

While Williams Cos. in Tulsa was dealing with the fallout from its merger with Energy Transfer Equity, one of its subsidiaries in West Virginia was being fined $14,440 by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA announced the fine on Wednesday aga…

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Inhofe Warns EPA Against Over-reacting to Calls to Ban Insecticides to Protect Nation’s Bees

Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe is telling the EPA to proceed with prudence as it moves forward with public hearings on whether to possibly ban certain insecticides known as “neonics”‘ that might be harming the bee populations in the U.S. He suggests …

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More Proof of EPA Continuing to Use Private Email Servers to Avoid Openness

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one accused of using private e-mail servers while with the U.S. government. The legal watchdog, Energy and Environment Legal Institute says a recent Freedom of Information Act request to …

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Oklahoma and Other States Want EPA to Start from Scratch on Suspended Mercury Rule

Oklahoma and 19 other states now want the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Environmental Protection Agency to start all over on a new mercury rule that resulted in last summer’s 5-4 ruling where the high court ruled the EPA failed to consider costs at a…

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Finger Pointing by Congress over Flint, Michigan Water Crisis

Democrats blamed Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder while Republicans on a House committee blamed the EPA for the lead-poisoned waters in Flint, Michigan. It was a House Oversight committee hearing. Oklahoma Rep. Steve Russell sits on the committee.
The Thursd…

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Ethanol Industry Rips Congress for Not Including It in Renewable Fuels Hearing

The ethanol industry isn’t happy that it was excluded from a U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee hearing this week to examine the Renewable Fuel Standard.
“Once again, no one from the U.S. biofuels industry wsa invited to testify, silencing a powerful v…

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