After interviewing all four members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Axios reporter Amy Harder found them to be divided over natural gas and climate change. Regulatory decisions about America’s bounty of natural gas are in the hands of an obscure and understaffed federal agency with a limited mandate to think about climate change. Why …
No one’s calling it another example of Chinese spying but a recent incident at a Canadian disease laboratory is raising questions and prompting growing speculation. Sciencemag.org reports that Canadian researchers are reacting with puzzlement to the news that a “policy breach” has caused the nation’s only high-containment disease laboratory to bar a prominent Chinese Canadian …
A Missouri environmental group that has filed suits against the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers and the state of Missouri has lost an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court recently upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the petition of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment challenging the makeup of the …
An interim Oklahoma House study of the Arkansas river flooding has been approved by House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka but he did not sign off on other proposed water studies. He also approved studies on solar energy. The Speaker announced a list of 90 interim study requests that he had approved and a request by …
Average gasoline prices dropped only a few cents a gallon in Oklahoma in the past week while rising nearly 8 cents in the past few weeks across the rest of the country. AAA Oklahoma reports the national gas price average is $2.79 while Oklahoma’s average is $2.47, a drop of 3 cents in the past …
Oklahoma congressman Frank Lucas says he’s using his position as the top Republican on the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee to make sure farming is included in development of rural broadband service and GPS technology. It’s what he told Ron Hays at the Oklahoma Farm Report. Click here for the story and interview. …
Schlumberger, with its operations in Oklahoma and other oil-producing states in the U.S. announced a 5% increase in its worldwide revenue of $8.3 billion in the second quarter of 2019. The Paris-based company’s North America revenue was $2.8 billion or 2% higher than the previous quarter. International revenue was $5.5 billion or 8% more. The …
The fight over a $162 fine against a large underground coal mining company in Colorado has led the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the decision of an Administrative Law Judge. Peabody Twentymile Mining LLC, operator of the Foidel Creek Mine near Steamboat Springs in northwest Colorado challenged the ALJ’s ruling which was …
Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently toured the energy system that cools and heats buildings in the world’s largest medical complex—the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. The Thermal Energy Corporation was recently chosen as the number one district energy system in the world for 2019 by the International District Energy Association. “I appreciated the …
The Oklahoma Governor’s Water Conference and Research Symposium is a partnership between the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) and the Oklahoma Water Resources Center (Water Center). The Water Center has held a Water Research Symposium every year since 2003. It brings together researchers in the water field to share their knowledge. In 2007, the Water …