One of the groups fighting the $218 million rate hike request filed by Public Service Company of Oklahoma is the AARP, American Association of Retired Persons. It is siding with Attorney General Gentner Drummond in opposing the request that was filed only a few months after PSO obtained another rate hike last fall from …
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas says one of his latest efforts on Capitol Hill is all about improving weather forecasting. And he’s not referring to the kind of weather prediction in the Old Farmer’s Almanac. In a note to constituents, the Republican U.S. Representative referred to the the Weather Data Taxpayer Protection Act. He called …
** Southern California Edison cut off electricity Sunday to 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend community, an outage that it says is indefinite because the shifting ground threatens utility poles and raises the risk of fires in the city. Another 200 homes were expected to lose it Monday night. ** Vice President Kamala Harris plans …
Public Service Company of Oklahoma finds itself in a struggle with the state Attorney General who wants Corporation Commissioners to nearly cut in half PSO’s $218 million rate hike request. The request was an almost immediate reaction to last fall’s decision by regulators to give PSO only about half of an original request …
** Two congressional Republicans asked the Pentagon on Wednesday to add the world’s biggest manufacturers of electric vehicle (EV) batteries to a list of entities subject to restrictions because of ties to the Chinese government. In the letter, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chair John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) called on …
** Jobs in the renewable energy sector grew at twice the rate of overall U.S. jobs last year, the Energy Department said Wednesday in its annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER). ** An internal watchdog criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top air official for participating in the development of a rule that regulates an industry …
** The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will protect 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska, reversing a Trump administration effort to open them up to development. The move protects the lands from mining as well as oil and gas extraction. ** The number of publicly available electric vehicle (EV) chargers has doubled since Biden took office, the …
A federal lawsuit has been filed by a Nebraska wind farm operator over changes a county made in its required setback rules. The suit was filed against Knox County administrators and its board of supervisors by North Fork Wind LLC and some landowners in the northern Nebraska county. The wind farm lawsuit suggests …
** Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least 2,325 people died from the heat last year, according to the study, which included deaths with heat as both an underlying and contributing …
** A fire broke out at a parking lot at Rivian Automotive’s manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois late on Saturday damaging many of its electric vehicles, the U.S. startup said on Sunday. ** The car industry is backing away from rolling out electric vehicles in favor of hybrid options, indicating more defeats to the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts …
