Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) near San Francisco, California resumed this month after a 10-year pause. The waste was received at WIPP and will be permanently disposed of in the underground repository about 2,000 feet beneath the surface reported the Carlsbad Current-Argus. …
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly touted job creation, opportunities to expand wind farming and potential savings for ratepayers with construction of an electric transmission line to move power from western Kansas to consumers in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. She joined transmission developer Invenergy this week in Topeka to outline benefits of Grain Belt Express, which is …
** U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet secretaries to look into the country’s reliance on rare earths in his latest bid to end China’s dominance of the industry. The move could lead to tariffs, quotas or other possible import restrictions, according to an executive order released on Wednesday. ** Exxon, the largest oil company …
Plugging and cleaning up the open oil and gas wells in Texas could cost companies and taxpayers as much as $117 billion, according to a new report. Carbon Tracker, a nonprofit financial think tank that studies the effects of climate change on financial markets, estimates there are some 3.8 million unplugged oil and gas wells nationally, …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board plans a third and final part of its webinar series on the agency’s ongoing work to revise the total phosphorous criterion for the protection of the aesthetics of the Illinois River Watershed. The third presentation will again inform stakeholders and others of the ongoing work by the OWRB staff …
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s summer-time request to activate an Oklahoma-specific provision in the 2005 federal highway bill giving state agencies “primacy” on environmental regulations in Indian Country. The governor made his request in July following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established much of the state to still …
A Texas judge acquitted the U.S. arm of French chemical maker Arkema SA and a top executive of criminal recklessness stemming from a 2017 blaze that injured 21 people, according to Reuters. The verdict, rendered Thursday, ends all charges against Arkema and its managers. The company’s Crosby, Texas, plant became waterlogged and lost power needed …
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testified about NASA missions, programs and future plans before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. NASA is seeking more than $7 billion in additional funding during the current fiscal year and nearly $28 billion over the next four years. “If we get to February of …
Oil futures took a beating in Thursday’s trading and so did energy stocks of Oklahoma companies and those that do operations in the state. Alliance Resource Partners was unchanged at $2.77 per share while Blueknight Energy Partners dropped 10% or 15 cents to settle at $1.39. Chesapeake Energy suffered a more than 3% drop …
Oil futures were sharply lower Thursday, with prices logging their lowest settlement since mid-September, as worries about rising cases of COVID-19 worldwide fed expectations for a slowdown in energy demand. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery dropped $1.50, or 3.7%, to settle at $38.72 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, following a …
