Tulsa’s NGL Energy Partners LP announced a quarterly cash distribution this week to shareholders of some of its preferred shares. The company’s Board of Directors of its general partners declared a distribution for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 to be paid to the holders of two of the Partnership’s shares. One involves …
A federal district judge ruled late Tuesday that the State of Oklahoma has sufficiently proven there has not been any substantive change in poultry litter pollution of the Illinois River Watershed (IRW) following trial. The ruling by Oklahoma Northern District Judge Gregory Frizzell included the finding that phosphorus from poultry waste continues to be …
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a second ruling this week regarding the EPA but this one involved a case on appeal by an Oklahoma oil refining company and others that challenged a small refinery decision of the EPA. The Court ruled the Fifth U.S Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to have not referred …
If this sounds like a re-run of an Oklahoma story, it is not, but customers of a major electric provider in Kansas are complaining about a proposed $196 million rate hike. Sound familiar? It’s the development this week regarding the plans of Evergy which are being considered by the Kansas Corporation Commission. The …
Demand for electricity. It’s reported nationwide and is growing quickly across Oklahoma and was the focus Wednesday of a nearly two-hour discussion and presentation by representatives of the Southwest Power Pool, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company and the Corporation Commission. “Energy demands are growing,” explained Paul Suskie, an Executive …
Day six of the war between Israel and Iran and crude oil prices rose again on Wednesday. Investors remain worried about disruptions of crude oil supplies coming out of the Middle East, plus the possibility the U.S. might become directly involved. President Trump is coy about what h might do after Iranian Supreme …
The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding Oklahoma’s challenge of the EPA’s rejection of the state’s “Good Neighbor” plan intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants. The Justices said the Denver federal appeals court was wrong to refer Oklahoma’s challenge to the D.C. Circuit Court of …
Just south across the Red River and not far from Lake Texoma sits a new Texas Instrument factory in the city of Sherman, Texas. It is also part of a major announcement made by Texas Instruments—that it plans to invest more than $60 billion across seven U.S. semiconductor fabs, making it the largest …
Stardust Power Inc., the lithium refinery operator in Muskogee says it made $4.3 million on its recently closed underwritten public offering. In an announcement Wednesday, the Connecticut-based company said the proceeds were from the offering of 21,500,000 shares of common stock. The announcement came one day after Stardust Power shares plunged nearly 53% …
Call it what you want….manure, poop, waste, chicken litter or even something we won’t say in this story. But it’s still the focus of a decades-long fight that former attorney General Drew Edmondson started years ago with the poultry industry over the pollution of the state’s Illinois River. Since then, six attorneys general, two …
