The Environmental Protection Agency was petitioned this week by hundreds of environmental groups to end ethane and methane emissions responsible for smog. The groups also want an end to exemptions for the emissions. A review of the hundreds of groups showed none apparently to be from Oklahoma. Some were from New Mexico. (click here …
Oklahoma’s Republican U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford were among 13 republican oil state senators who urged EPA Administrator Michael Regan to use his general waiver authority to reduce Renewable Fuel Standard blending requirements. The requirements are part of the U.S. Supreme Court challenge made by CVR Energy, operator of the Wynnewood refinery. …
** South Korea’s SK Innovation Co Ltd said on Tuesday it is considering all options including pulling its battery business out of the United States if President Joe Biden does not overturn a trade panel’s decision against it by April 11. ** Twenty-six people were arrested last week at a Line 3 pipeline protest in Minnesota, including some …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was among the nine Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who voted Wednesday against two more of President Biden’s environmental nominations. Inhofe voted against the nomination of Brenda Mallory to be chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and Janet McCabe to be the deputy administrator …
** Detroit-based Hercules Electric Vehicles is opening a $20 million Series A investment round to support product development, add employees, and scout for locations for facilities to produce components such as solid-state batteries. It is developing an electric sport pickup truck expected to be available late next year. ** Construction is expected to begin soon on a $5 million soybean …
Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy is facing a nearly $2 million fine in Pennsylvania by federal and state regulators who claim the firm damaged dozens of wetlands and streams at its gas drilling sites in the state. State Impact Pennsylvania reported a federal complaint filed in Williamsport alleged that Chesapeake caused the environmental damage at 76 …
Michael Regan might have won the praise of environmentalists for his work against the oil and gas industry in North Carolina where he headed that state’s environmental department, but he didn’t get the support of Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford when he was confirmed as head of the Environmental Protection Agency …
Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site in the northeast part of the state remains the target of cleanup efforts. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality slated a virtual public meeting this week to discuss the residential yard and high access area cleanups at the site.s The public was informed about an upcoming remediation as part …
Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford will be busy this week dealing with Senate committee confirmation hearings on three Biden nominees. Sen. Inhofe, who once chaired the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee will be among those questioning Brenda Mallory who was nominated to led the White House Council on Environmental Quality …
** The U.S. Air Force is distributing bottled water to Arizona residents and business owners near Luke Air Force Base whose drinking water showed high levels of contaminants. A statement by the base said water testing detected levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate “above the Environmental Protection Agency’s lifetime health advisory for drinking water.” ** Exxon …
