A Montana Federal Judge likely won’t have a ruling for months whether to allow construction to move ahead on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana heard arguments last week in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s decision to reverse President Obama’s 2015 decision to stop the …
A few hundred people signed a recent letter asking Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to finalize the agency’s proposed ban of the high-risk chemical trichloroethylene. It’s commonly referred to as TCE and has been affiliated with Tinker Air Force Base as well as the former Eagle Industries site in Midwest City where it was …
Registration for the popular Selman Bat Watches, hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, started Tuesday, May 29. The weekend watches will be held at the Selman Bat Cave WMA, where Mexican free-tailed bats congregate each summer to give birth. Each night the bats leave the cave to hunt for flying insects, forming a ribbon …
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin announced the state of Oklahoma has requested a major disaster declaration from the federal government for six counties impacted by wildfires and severe weather that occurred April 11-20. If approved, the designation would deliver federal funding to assist municipalities, counties and rural electric cooperatives with infrastructure repairs, debris removal, and other …
The amount of crude oil flowing out of the Permian Basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico has prompted yet another pipeline operator to announce an expansion of its capacity. Houston’s Enterprise Products Partners L.P. says it is seeking customer commitments for an expansion of its Enterprise Crude Pipeline LLC West Texas System. The …
While the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is thousands of miles away from Oklahoma, it still fascinates us. And now the lava has reached the Puna Geothermal Venture plant creating yet another potential disaster. The lava at last word covered a well and was threatening another. “Lava flow from Fissures 7 and 21 crossed into …
The number of oil and gas rigs working in Oklahoma and the rest of the country saw no letup in increased activity over the past week. Oklahoma’s count rose by 2 to reach 140 rigs while the national count jumped 13 to hit 1,059. The national count increased an increase of 15 more oil rigs …
It was the morning smell in a residential neighborhood that reminded me of Memorial Day and why it was so important to me as a young man growing up in rural Kansas. Freshly-cut grass. It’s what I always remember about Memorial Days past—those from small-town America where former soldiers gathered to pay homage to whose …
Prosecutors in Tulsa say former Oklahoma oil distributor Jack Jim Clark stole $10 million to live the life of the “rich and famous” and will pay the price with a 5-year prison sentence. Clark, of Sapulpa and Oklahoma City was sentenced in Tulsa U.S. District Court after pleading guilty last summer to one count of …
A legal settlement’s been reached between Anadarko Petroleum and families of two men killed in a 2017 Colorado home explosion. But details of the deal were not disclosed. The company announced the settlement with families of Mark Martinez and Joey Irwin who died last April while working in the Martinez home in Firestone, about 30 …
