“With Scott Pruitt, you had someone who had built a career on trying to dismantle and deconstruct basic environmental protections. So for me, that’s a person who is not qualified.” Mustafa Santiago Ali knew it was time to leave EPA. It was March 2017, and Ali had spent 24 years at the agency, working …
More oil and gas rigs are going into storage across the U.S. as a drop of one in the U.S. oil and gas rig count was reported in the past week while the number of active rigs in Oklahoma fell by three. Baker Hughes Co. reported Oklahoma’s count dropped to 48 compared to the 115 …
The House County and Municipal Government Committee passed legislation to create the Oklahoma Hazard Mitigation Assessment District Act. House Bill 2776 was authored by State Rep. Lonnie Sims (R-Jenks) and provides the framework for residents in each county to identify, elect and invest locally in hazard mitigation. “After weeks of meetings over the summer, hours …
The creation of an Oklahoma Sustainable Waters Act of 2020 was one bill that received support from a State House Committee before a Thursday deadline on bills. Rep. Trey Caldwell of Lawton authored the measure that was approved on a 17-0 vote in the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It was sent to …
** California regulators impose a $2.14 billion penalty against PG&E for the utility’s role in causing catastrophic wildfires in 2017 and 2018. **An Indiana Senate committee advances a bill aimed at slowing coal plant retirements with amendments that would shorten the bill’s end-date and protect ratepayers from cost increases. ** A lack of government enforcement allowed coal companies to transfer $865 million …
Imagine losing $2 billion? It’s what Oklahoma City-based Gulfport Energy Corporation reported for 2019, attributing the loss to a large write-down. In an earnings report, the firm reported it lost $2.02 billion or $12.49 per share while total revenues were $1.35 billion for all of 2019. Gulfport wrote down its oil and natural gas assets …
Oklahoma will get more than $16 million in federal emergency money from the U.S. Department of Transportation because of flood damage over the past few years. It is part of $653 million in USDOT emergency funding to make road and bridge repairs. Oklahoma will get $7,047,846 to repair damage caused by storms and flooding from …
Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Services reported losses in both the fourth quarter 2019 and for all of the year. Earnings for the company dropped in the fourth quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter and also to the fourth quarter of 2018. For the year, total revenue was nearly one-half what it was …
The Oklahoma House Utilities Committee has passed legislation to prevent telemarketers from replicating phone numbers and misrepresenting the origin of a phone call. House Bill 3081, authored by Rep. Kyle Hilbert (R-Bristow), would prohibit callers from tampering with information displayed on caller IDs to disguise their identities. This practice is known as “caller ID spoofing” …
The American Petroleum Institute is out with a study showing the devastating impact if Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were to get their wish of a total ban on fracking in the U.S. The study claims Oklahoma would lose 319,000 jobs but the biggest loss nationally would be an estimated 1.1 million jobs in …
