Following complaints filed by the environmental group Earthworks, Oklahoma regulators found Houston-based Newfield Exploration had caused illegal air pollution and violated terms of its permits at two well sites in Kingfisher County. The findings were made in the summer of 2018. The group announced the findings this week by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality …
While thousands of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Mike Monroney Center in Oklahoma City have been impacted by the partial shutdown of the federal government, Oklahomans and others across the nation will soon be seeing an effect in terms of weather forecasts. At least those coming from the National Weather Service. Even local …
The man picked by President Trump to head the federal agency controlling Norman’s National Weather Service Center and the Severe Storms Lab recently resigned and sold all of his interest in weather forecaster AccuWeather. Barry Myers apparently did it to gain favor with a Democratic controlled US House and more support as he must be …
The President and CEO of Tulsa’s Alliance Resource Partners, a major coal mining company in the U.S., Joseph W. Craft III was named this week Chairman of the general partner’s Board of Directors. Craft replaces John P. Neafsey who retired effective Jan. 1, 2019 after serving as Board Chairman since 1999. “Jack Neafsey has been …
Baker Hughes, a GE company announced that the Baker Hughes international rig count for December 2018 was 1,025, up 34 from the 991 counted in November 2018, and up 71 from the 954 counted in December 2017. The international offshore rig count for December 2018 was 234, up 28 from the 206 counted in November …
A new report commissioned by Community Energy, Inc. finds that replacing Colorado’s aging coal plants with a mix of wind and solar backed by battery storage and natural gas would save Colorado electric customers almost $250 million per year, roughly $2.5 billion in net present value through 2040. The modeling study, prepared by Vibrant …
A New Mexico federal magistrate is giving more time to a Texas company in a lawsuit filed by Elk City-based Big Chief Plant Services Inc. Panhandle Maintenance LLC, headquartered in Borger, Texas is fighting the move of a lawsuit from state to U.S. District court in New Mexico. U.S. Magistrate Stephan M. Vidmar, in a …
During cold weather in Oklahoma City, police often urge motorists not to leave their car engine running while they return to the house or apartment on an early-morning. Too many thieves are willing to take advantage of idling cars and pickup trucks. But in North Dakota, it was such an issue that the legislature made …
With nationwide gasoline prices at their lowest levels in two years, Oklahoma prices are down as well and among some of the cheapest prices in the country. The nationwide average on Monday was $2.37 per gallon. AAA Oklahoma reports the statewide average is $1.90, down two cents from a week ago and 18 cents from …
A new version of the Oklahoma Wildlife Management Area Atlas is now available through the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The new atlas offers a page-by-page guide to the state’s public hunting lands and Department public fishing lakes. It also features topographical maps of nearly every Department-managed public use area in the state. The …