For leading Arkansas-based J.B. Hunt Trucking, Shelley Simpson received more than $11 million total compensation last year. A proxy filed by the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. revealed the payments to Simpson who served as company president since 2022. She was promoted to CEO on July 1 to replace John Roberts. Click here for …
The War Zone reported the development stating the company is aiming for the very-high speed uncrewed aircraft to be “orders of magnitude” less expensive than any other comparable design. What was not revealed by Kratos CEO ERric DeMarco in a recent interview with Aviation Week exactly where the development is occurring. It is …
The action of the U.S. to issue new Iran-related sanctions combined with rising tensions in the Middle East sent crude oil prices up nearly 2% in Thursday’s trading. Washington’s fourth round of sanctions on Iran’s oil sales since Donald Trump became President targeted for the first time a Chinese “teapot” or independent refinery as …
Southwest Power Pool (SPP) will soon be the first regional transmission organization (RTO) in the U.S. to provide full services in both the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the nation’s power grid. On March 20, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved Southwest Power Pool’s amended tariff that includes provisions enabling Western members …
This week’s decision by a North Dakota jury to hold Greenpeace liable for $660 million damages to Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access pipeline during protests several years ago has civil rights attorneys saying it will have a chilling effect on public protest. One attorney said it was a loss for the First Amendment and the …
Hit with a jury’s decision to pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation of Energy Transfer company, Greenpeace says it has no intention of coughing up the money and will appeal this week’s decision by a North Dakota jury. “The fight against Big Oil is not over today,” Greenpeace International General …
When Williams CEO Alan Armstrong recently said he would not build a natural gas pipeline in New York and other New England states because of their past opposition to natural gas, he was speaking from experience. And he doesn’t like what he remembers who his firm was treated by those states. He vowed not …
Despite a drop in the strong winds that hit 70 mph in some areas of Oklahoma on Wednesday, firefighters still anticipate a weekend of potentially more wildfires in the state. A Thursday report by the Oklahoma Forestry Services stated that conditions continue to degrade “posing significant resistance to control” and not requiring the kind …
** A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017. ** A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups …
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm was among the oil executives who met with President Trump Wednesday at the White House where they discussed his plans to increase domestic energy production. Hamm, founder and CEO of Continental Resources and one of Trump’s biggest political donors joined other executives in their first sit-down with the President …