** As the death toll from the Texas tragedy continues to rise, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has fueled claims about weather manipulation and has tasked his agency to investigate them including such things as geoengineering and contrails. ** Bill Nye “The Science Guy” said that fossil fuel companies and U.S. Congress neglecting the climate crisis is …
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Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen—an interview with Sen. Lankford about the OBBB’s immediate impact on state energy
Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen as they discussed what Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford revealed about President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill and its impact on Oklahoma’s energy industries. Lankford was interviewed by Bohnen about the OBBB. Read more
2Q results for NextEra Energy coming this month
NextEra Energy, the company fighting to win approval for a 5,000 acre solar farm in northeast Oklahoma, plans a release of its second-quarter earnings report later this month. The company, headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, says it will report the results before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, …
Sen. Lankford says Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry received immediate relief when OBBB became law
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford says the minute President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law last week, Oklahoma oil and gas exploration companies received immediate relief. In an interview with OK Energy Today, the Republican Senator explained the OBBB immediately eliminated a tax created by Democrats on oil and gas, the …
Energy briefs
** U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday directed federal agencies to strengthen provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that repeal or modify tax credits for solar and wind energy projects. ** Colorado regulators hold off on enforcing a rule banning government entities from using small gas-powered lawn equipment that went into effect last …
Country’s largest power grid struggles to keep up with electricity demands from data centers
Lest you think our growing reports and observations about the ballooning demand for electricity from increasing data centers is something of a “Boy Cries Wolf,” consider what’s happening to the nation’s largest power grid. PJM Interconnection covers 13 states from Illinois to Tennessee and Virginia to New Jersey but is reported to be under …
Energy briefs
** The Trump administration has tapped a longtime pesticide lobbyist for a top EPA role regulating pesticides, allegedly a key focus of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Kyle Kunkler, who served as director of government affairs at the American Soybean Association (ASA) from 2020 to June 2025, is now serving as the EPA’s top …
Energy briefs
** A U.S. Energy Department report warns the risk of blackouts could surge by the end of the decade amid growing power demand and calls for keeping gas and coal power plants online — though the GOP budget bill will stymie clean power development that could help meet that demand. ** In a televised cabinet …
Energy demand booms across the U.S.
The demand for energy is booming across the nation and Oklahoma’s recent announcements of data centers is just an example of what is happening in the electrical-power generation industry. Some data center projects are also including their own power supply projects, such as the recently-announced project in Chickasha where the developer intends to build …
Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen—energy demands are all around Oklahoma
In today’s podcast of Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen, they take a regional tour of energy demands, rate hikes and legal fights.
