The PFAS concern is so great in New Mexico that the state is offering the testing of more residents around Clovis, home to Cannon AFB where the chemical was used in firefighting. PFAS from firefighting foams were primarily discharged into the soil at firefighting training areas around Cannon AFB. These chemicals migrated into local groundwater …
** Demand for green power in the United States will grow regardless of who is the country’s next president, major players in the wind energy sector Vestas and Orsted said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. ** Factory workers at Boeing voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for …
** AT&T said it had struck a $1 billion multi-year deal with Corning to buy fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions, as the U.S. telecom giant looks to expand its high-speed internet services. ** Boeing reportedly dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) department as part of an overhaul of its operations ordered by the company’s …
** Heating and cooking with natural gas stoves is not associated with asthma in children or adults according to a major study published in The Lancet medical journal and funded by the World Health Organization (WHO). The study conducted an extensive meta-analysis and examined the health risks of cooking or heating with natural gas compared to …
** Boeing on Monday launched a stock offering that could raise up to $19 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances squeezed by an over month-long strike by its workers and preserve its investment-grade credit rating. ** Campaign spending by ethanol producers related to a South Dakota carbon pipeline ballot measure far outweighs spending by …
** Striking Boeing machinists rejected a proposed contract that would have ended a costly 41-day work stoppage. The machinists, represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), turned down a deal that includes a 35 percent wage increase over the next four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and improved retirement offerings. ** Nearly 80 …
Even though she’s facing a tough re-election campaign, Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is using her time in the U.S. House to continue attacks on the Biden-Harris administration. Her latest? Going after the government for plans to protect what she calls an “ugly” animinal in Colorado—the Gunnison sage-grouse, a bird designated as “threatened” under the …
Wyoming, one of the states that joined Oklahoma in challenging the power plant rules of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, isn’t happy as well about a Supreme Court decision last week against the request for an emergency stay of the rules. In all, 24 states asked for the stay and because of the Supreme …
** Nearly three weeks after a geyser shoy 100 feet into the air from a Reeves County, Texas oilfield, it is still gushing. The blowout is at an old well, once owned by a Kinder Morgan subsidiary. ** Labor advocates say training unionized oil and gas workers to plug orphaned oil and gas wells would help …
A U.S. Supreme Court decision to consider Oklahoma’s litigation opposing the Biden-Harris Administration’s federal overreach in rejecting Oklahoma’s state implementation plan (SIP) for ozone emissions drew a big favorable reaction from State Attorney General Gentner Drummond. In March 2023, Drummond filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit against …
