New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland won the support of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in her bid by the Biden administration to become the new Interior Secretary. It is still not known how one of Oklahoma’s two U.S. Senators will vote when it goes to the full senate. The vote was …
Enel Green Power, already the largest wind farm operator in Oklahoma has begun construction on its latest wind project not far from the Oklahoma state line in Texas. The 79-wind turbines that will make up the Azure Sky wind and storage farm will be located in Throckmorton County located southwest of Wichita Falls. It …
The Sierra Club’s Freedom of Information legal loss this past week by the U.S. Supreme Court also happened to be the first time that new Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the ruling. The Club had been in a legal battle to obtain documents which detailed how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2014 …
Preventing wind turbines from freezing in frigid weather like the winter storm that hit Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas last month isn’t as easy as it sounds. It’s not a simple solution of putting electrical heaters on the blades. One Iowa State University scientist who has been studying ways to prevent the icing on wind …
After the 2020 Oklahoma Oil & Gas Expo was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers say they plan to hold the expo October 14 at the State Fair Park Bennett Event Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources (SOER), a program under the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board …
Crude oil prices had another big jump in Thursday’s trading in apparent continued response to reports that OPEC+ might not increase its oil production from April as widely speculated. West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery rose $2.55 finish the day at $63.83 a barrel. That’s a nearly 3-dollar-a-barrel increase since earlier in the …
It took Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford four tries before he could an answer from David Turk, the President’s nominee to be the Deputy Energy Secretary in a discussion about the future of fossil fuel powered vehicles. During Turk’s confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lankford asked …
Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site in the northeast part of the state remains the target of cleanup efforts. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality slated a virtual public meeting this week to discuss the residential yard and high access area cleanups at the site.s The public was informed about an upcoming remediation as part …
More than 10 days after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state leaders promised to investigate the impact of historic frigid winter weather on Oklahomans’ power bills, it would appear there is little progress publicly known. At least one State House Committee tasked with exploring ways to help consumers avoid possible catastrophic utility bills …
Legislators in Kansas are racing to help towns and ratepayers facing out-of-sight utility bills following the bitter cold weather that hit the state last month. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported how legislators fast-tracked a measure to provide loans to small towns and municipalities so they can pat bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. …