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…
In order to get a new $4 billion line of credit this week, executives at Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation nearly had to sell their souls. What they did was to put up nearly all of the company’s natural gas fields to reach an agre…
Anti-coal protesters are making their voices heard in New Mexico where they are fighting a nearly 16 percent electrical rate hike requested by the state’s largest utility, Public Service Company.
Nearly 50 gathered this week outside the government bui…
It’s not just drug lords you have to worry about in Mexico, but ingenious oil thieves too. In central Mexico, police have discovered just how crafty the thieves were as they tapped into government oil pipelines. They built a camouflage truck to …
While the legislature argues over whether to eliminate tax credits and rescind tax cuts, a new WalletHub Study ranked Oklahoma 6th lowest nationwide for its overall tax burden.
Oklahoma’s tax burden of 6.95 percent is based by WalletHub’s analysts on …
