State Reps. Tom Gann and Kevin West have filed yet another State Supreme Court challenge of an Corporation Commission approval of a utility rate hike because it involved votes by Commissioner Todd Hiett. It was their sixth such appeal of Hiett’s participation in rate hike approvals. In a filing on Monday, August 11, …
A mad rush is underway in some states across the nation as the Trump administration does away with tax credits for clean energy projects. Those states are attempting to finish the projects before the expiration of the credits. They are also fast tracking the projects to ensure they are connected to the grid. Meanwhile, …
Final briefs in Oklahoma’s 20-year fight with Arkansas and Oklahoma poultry growers over pollution of the Illinois River were due on Monday in Tulsa U.S. District Court. It’s the case started in 2005 by then-Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and carried out by current Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Drummond’s recently proposed final judgment in the …
A report summarizing more than 600 public comments on the proposed South Extension Turnpike alignment was recently provided to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Board and published online at www.accessoklahoma.com Public comments were received from late May through June 30 from residents in Cleveland and McClain counties after public meetings in Purcell and Norman. …
Oklahoma’s Expand Energy is among the nation’s top gas producers who are benefitting from a data center construction boom in the Appalachia basin. As more and more data centers are being constructed in such states as Virginia and Pennsylvania, it’s also driving the need for more natural gas—just what Expand Energy and …
Customers of Florida’s biggest utility company, Florida Power & Ligght Company are probably still picking themselves up off the floor after hearing what the firm is proposing for a rate hike. FPL wants a nearly $10 billion rate hike for electricity over the next four years. If it comes about, it would be …
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank has released a study regarding occupations and their exposure to emissions-intensive activities. In other words, which occupations offer the greatest and the least exposure to greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Those activities are reported to be the major contributors to climate change. …
** An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured more than 10 others. The CEO has vowed to find out what caused Monday’s blast while the workers’ union says it will make sure there’s a thorough investigation. ** Five countries account for more than two-thirds of the world’s total nuclear electricity generation …
Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP just announced a whopping $2 billion in notes. Energy Transfer, with a major Oklahoma City office, is offering $1.2 billion in Series 2025A junior subordinated notes due 2056. It is also offering $800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Series 2025 junior notes due 2056. The offered prices to the public are …
Crude oil prices were mostly unchanged on Monday’s trading just days ahead of the meeting between President Trump and Russia’s Putin regarding the war in Ukraine. Only a few cents separate Monday’s close from Friday. Oil prices had a horrible week last week when they fell more than 4%. Trump and Putin intend …
