** Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found. ** The House Natural Resources Committee announced its first-ever criminal referral to the Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking it to investigate whether Mike Ingram, an Arizona real estate developer and a campaign donor to Donald Trump, bribed public officials …
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** The Colonial Pipeline could get a $1 million fine following its shutdown of the key fuel supply artery to the East Coast last year prompted by Russian-based hackers. ** Boeing Co said on Thursday it will move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, as the crisis-plagued U.S. planemaker works to repair relationships with customers, …
Senate confirms EPA nominee
Oklahoma U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford were among those voting recently to confirm President Biden’s nomination of Dr. Kathryn Huff to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy. The Senate vote was 80-11 and the two senators voted to support Huff’s nomination. West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin who chairs …
PSO honored by EPA
Public Service Company of Oklahoma announced it has been selected as a 2022 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year winner for Sustained Excellence. This award is reserved for ENERGY STAR partners demonstrating outstanding leadership, year over year, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. “The 2022 ENERGY STAR award recognizes …
Mullin introduces bill targeting Biden’s NEPA changes
Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin targeted President Biden’s move to roll back President Trump’s National Environmental Policy Act reforms adopted in July of 2020. He filed a bill called the “Stop NEPA Expansion Act” which would prevent Biden from requiring federal agencies to take a “hard look” at the impact of major highway, pipeline and …
EPA nominee pulled by White House
POLITICO reported the White House on Monday withdrew the nomination of Amanda Howe to run EPA’s Office of Mission Support. “The White House and EPA did not return questions about the withdrawal. Howe, a longtime Democratic official in Virginia and New York City, sailed through committee in December in part because OMS is primarily …
Oklahoma Reps busy with energy hearings this week on Capitol Hill
As Congress returns to work this week following the Easter break, those Senators and Representatives from Oklahoma will be busy with some hearings at which top Biden administration officials will testify. Congressman Markwayne Mullin and other members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hear Thursday from Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. She is …
Other US and world energy headlines
** President Biden commemorated Earth Day on Friday by unveiling a raft of new policies to combat deforestation, including the signing of an executive order that safeguards old-growth forests on federal lands. ** More than 80 percent of oil and gas well completions in the United States were horizontal or directional in 2021, and although the total number …
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** Oil prices could spike to $185 a barrel if EU abruptly banned Russian crude, JPMorgan said Tuesday. A full and immediate embargo would displace 4 million barrels per day of Russian oil. ** A shortage of solar modules due to the Commerce Department’s probe of four Southeast Asian nations has put 65 percent of new …
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** Interior’s Bureau of Land Management will hold an oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming on June 21-22, the department announced Monday. It will be the Biden administration’s first onshore lease sale and the first to use the updated lease sale provisions Interior suggested in November reported POLITICO. ** On Thursday, the Department of Transportation is …