California, where gasoline prices average $4.54 a gallon but some counties have averages as high was $5.81 per gallon could be staring major price hikes in the face as the state is about to lose 17% of its oil refinery capacity in the coming 12 months. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that …
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser might join a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s January announcement and declaration of a national energy emergency. The consideration comes after the Bureau of Land Management announced last week that under the emergency declaration, it would speed up an environmental review of an oil loading site in Utah so more …
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 …
** 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 …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin says one major contribution of the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law last week is the modernization of the air traffic control industry. After all, its Air Traffic Control academy is located in Oklahoma City and some of the $12.5 billion bill is going to the …
In a typical year, the Oklahoma City Utilities Department anticipates 600 to 800 emergency water main breaks across its roughly 4,300-mile network of water lines. In fiscal year (FY) 2023, there were 591 emergency breaks repaired and 621 in FY 2024. At the end of FY 2025, which closed on June 30, there were …
Independent energy company, Vital Energy, Inc. plans a release of its second-quarter earnings report early in August. The results will first be released for the Tulsla-based company on Wednesday, August 6, following the close of markets. Company leaders plan a conference call to discuss the results the next morning. The call will begin at …
The government’s forecast of less U.S. oil production this year and next sent crude oil prices climbing to a two-week high on Tuesday. It also resulted in some rather dramatic gains for some Oklahoma energy stocks. The forecast came from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Along with renewed Houthi attacks on Red Sea …
Look at that map. Beautiful sight, isn’t it? No consecutive days of 100 degree weather so far this summer in Oklahoma. Ha ha…..laughing in the face of mother nature. You would expect Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet to do just that. “I’m sorry (not really), but this is no way to …
Just as we reported Oklahoma Energy and Environment Secretary Jeff Starling intended to be a candidate for attorney general, he took the formal step in recent days. Starling filed his official candidacy for the Republican nomination with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission on July 1. He became the second candidate for the nomination. The other …