From filing suit against the EPA over ozone emissions to challenging the government listing of the lesser prairie chicken as endangered, they are among the legal challenges undertaken by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond in his first 100 days in office. Drummond joined a lawsuit against the Fish and Wildlife Service over its listing of …
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** The Pentagon is sounding alarms over Biden administration plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic US coast, warning that almost all of the new terrain eyed for development conflicts with military operations. ** A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing …
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** More than a dozen environmental groups are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency over its failure to set water pollution limits for some industrial contaminants as well as its reluctance to update decades-old standards for others, arguing that the agency’s inaction amounts to a “free pass to pollute” for hundreds of chemical and fertilizer …
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** U.S. oil bosses generally collected huge paychecks last year on the back of high energy prices and record profits, with Exxon Mobil Corp’s chief executive winning a 52% increase. The largest U.S. oil company on Thursday disclosed Chief Executive Darren Woods was paid $35.9 million last year. ** The Texas Senate passed a bill that will …
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** The Biden administration’s plan to stifle auto pollution and spur electric vehicles is expected to shrink US oil demand by an estimated 17 billion barrels through 2055. ** The Texas Senate passed a bill that will cap how much bitcoin (BTC) miners can participate in demand response programs, under which they get paid to …
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** The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of a 732-mile high-voltage transmission line across the Western U.S. that will help transport renewable energy. The transmission line, called the TransWest Express Project, will run from south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and central Utah before reaching its endpoint in southern Nevada, …
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** According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory — a list of self-reported toxic chemical emissions — more than 428,000 pounds of vinyl chloride were released into the air by 38 industry facilities last year. ** A Gallup poll, released Monday, found the share of Americans who describe the energy situation as “very serious” has …
Oklahoma State receives $7 million Energy Department grant
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm personally paid a visit to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater on Friday to announce a $7 million grant to the university to continue research and training for energy conservation in manufacturing. The money will fund the Great Plains Center of Excellence which is in the Endeavor lab, a federally designated …
Tulsa businessman loses another lawsuit over whistleblower claims
Frank Montero’s years-long fight with the Tulsa Airport Improvement Trust resulted in another of his lawsuits thrown out of court—this time in Tulsa Federal Court. Montero ran his business, AA Inc. , at the Jones/Riverside airport but ran into legal problems back in 2014 when the TAIT alleged AA failed to maintain its corporate …
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** Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is asking the Biden administration to delay new energy standards for mobile homes set to go into effect at the end of next month. In a new letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm given exclusively to Yahoo Finance, Scott said “this costly and misguided regulation” will squeeze low-income Americans who will be “unfairly …