Solar rooftop users in Oklahoma are celebrating after the Oklahoma Corporation Commission voted 3-0 this week against an Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company plan that opponents argued would be unfair to solar customers.
“The commission’s order finds a l…
For the first time since July of 2015, general revenue fund collections for March exceeded the state’s estimate, according to the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services. It was the first bit of good news in the past year since stat…
The Environmental Protection Agency continues to find itself hauled into court, whether it’s over the Clean Power Plan or the Waters of the U.S. Rule. Now it’s been sued by two environmental groups and accused of acting too slowly on airline emis…
One of the bills signed into law this week by Governor Mary Fallin will allow Oklahomans to see how federal environmental money is being spent in Oklahoma, whether it’s EPA funds into the Department of Environmental Quality or federal money into the St…
While the leaders of nearly 200 nations will gather later this month in New York City to sign the Paris climate agreement pushed by President Obama, Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe says it will be nothing but a pipe dream from the Obama administration…
Stating it’s no longer essential and should be eliminated, Oklahoma U.S. Senator James Lankford has introduced an amendment to the Federal Aviaton Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016 to do away with the program called the Department of Transport…
While a new lawsuit has been filed in the controversial merger of Tulsa-based Williams Companies with Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity LP, governor Mary Fallin is becoming involved in the issue.
She intends to travel to New York on Friday to try an…
Nearly 100 protesters gathered Tuesday at the State Capitol for an “Earth (Quake) Rally” sponsored by the Sierra Club and other activists fighting for more regulations on the oil and gas industry to stop the plague of earthquakes in the state.
They he…
While the Oklahoma Sierra Club was preparing for an “Earth (Quake) Day” protest at the state capitol, its attorneys with Public Justice based in Washington, D.C. were filing an amended lawsuit naming SandRidge Energy as another defendant accused …
Houston-based Marathon Oil Corporation has sold nearly $1 billion of its assets in a recent deal involving its Wyoming upstream and midstream assets. Makes a total of $1.3 billion in assets the company has unloaded since August.
Marathon did not…
