** The Biden administration announced it would delay part of its signature climate plan to slash planet-warming pollution from the power sector. The Environmental Protection Agency said it would carve existing gas plants out of a proposed regulation to cut emissions from power plants. ** The Biden administration finalized energy efficiency regulations targeting residential clothes washers and dryers …
Category: EPA
Appeals Court moves Oklahoma’s lawsuit against EPA to D.C.
Oklahoma’s legal challenge of the EPA’s rejection last year of the state’s plan to adequately address its contributions to air-quality problems in downwind states, is headed to the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals. Attorney General Gentner Drummond along with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, owner of a coal-fired electric generating plant in Hugo, filed an …
Energy quick reads
** Wall Street’s top regulator will vote on March 6 on whether to adopt rules requiring U.S.-listed companies to report climate-related risks, the agency said in a notice on Wednesday, in a potentially major overhaul of U.S. disclosure rules. ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) decision to step down as Senate GOP leader, which he …
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** The American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas lobbying group, is petitioning to eliminate the Biden administration’s pause on new approvals for natural gas exports. The organization, along with other trade groups, filed what’s known as a “petition for rehearing” on the pause. Such a petition is not a lawsuit, but it could be thefirst …
$1 billion in new EPA funding includes mining site near Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site
The latest energy funding from the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency includes more than $1 billion in a third and final wave for cleanup projects at more than 100 Superfund sites across the country. One of the projects is a mining site in southeast Kansas and adjacent to the Tar Creek Superfund site in …
Native tribes to share $366 million for renewable energy projects
The Biden administration announced this week it intends to launch a $366 million plan to fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand renewable energy on Native American reservations and other rural areas. The Energy Department said the money comes from the $1 trillion infrastructure law President Joe Biden signed in 2021. None of the projects …
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** An Ohio commission awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks Monday, despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support. ** Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway’s shares closed down by more than 2% on Monday, slowing its march to $1 trillion market value on investor worries after the U.S. government warned of …
Senator Mullin wants halt to EPA tailpipe rule—says he’s committed to fighting it
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin isn’t giving up on his fight against a proposed new EPA tailpipe rule. Last week he joined other Senators and Representatives in urging the President and Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget to halt the rule. Republicans contend it’s a green energy effort to push …
Mullin and Hern join Congressional effort to urge Biden to kill EPA tailpipe plan
Oklahoma Congressman Kevin Hern and U.S. Sens. Markwayne Mullin and James Lankford were among more than 130 Republican lawmakers who sent a letter to the White House urging the President to kill his proposed tailpipe emissions regulations that are intended to force drivers to switch to electric vehicles. They were the only three …
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** U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced Washington would issue more than 500 new sanctions targeting Russia as the United States seeks to increase pressure on Moscow to mark the second anniversary of its war in Ukraine. ** AT&T finally restored wireless service to all customers by around 3 pm ET Thursday and the …