Boston-based environmental group Ceres is out with a report detailing air emissions from the 100 largest U.S. electric power producers including those that operate in Oklahoma. The 2017 Benchmarking report had some good news, showing power plant sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions in 2015 were 87 percent and 79 percent lower respectively compared to …
After Paris Climate Agreement, America Will Continue To Lead By: Congressman Tom Cole President Trump has come under fire recently because of his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. I believe he was right to do so. The agreement would have damaged the U.S. economy, eliminated millions of jobs, and …
With oil and gas production booming in Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays, gross production tax collections were up significantly in May as part of the General Revenue Fund Collections reported by Secretary of Finance Preston L. Doerflinger. However, overall general revenue fund collections missed the official monthly estimate by 1.5 percent, leaving the state with …
Construction started this week on a $37 million energy conservation plan at Fort Riley Army post in Kansas….home to the Big Red One and once home to Gen. George Armstrong Custer. It’s a plan that officials claim will result in $92 million in savings over the next 22 years. The project includes 15 energy conservation …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe openly supported the nominations of two women to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency…..both who once worked for him when he chaired the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Annie Caputo is a nominee to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Susan Bodine …
CARTER COUNTY Glb Exploration Inc Tussy: Swab Tussy: Oil 162 Gas 306 Pump 10 5S 1E Day 1, May 01, 2017 SH, OIL, TD: 4951 ft Lat: 34.14123, Long: -97.19390 API: 35019253240001 COAL COUNTY Bp America Production Company Woodford(11498): Gas 3333 Flow 25 2N 11E Queen 2-24h, February 24, 2017 HH, GAS, TD: 16331 …
Oklahoma and other members of the Environmental Council of the States say state flexibility is still the best way to achieve national standards for environmental protection. In an outline of its Cooperative Federal 2.0 approach with the EPA, leaders stated, “We are convinced a recalibration of state and federal roles can lead to more effective …
In the words of State Climatologist Gary McManus, “summer’s just getting started.” And it’s not officially here until June 21. This after temperatures soared to 104 degrees on Monday in Beaver in the Panhandle. It was six years ago Tuesday, June 13 when temperatures hit 110 degrees in Buffalo. As McManus noted, Beaver, Hooker and …
It’s our money and Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Steve Russell doesn’t like how our government is spending it as he detailed in his Waste Watch No. 7 released this week. It is a report filled with what he calls “wasted $74 billion in taxpayer dollars”, most of it on education programs that he contends are not …
The founder of the Rip Griffin travel centers in Texas and Pro Petroleum and Griffin Transportation with truck terminals in Oklahoma and five other states has died at the age of 87. B.R. Griffin, better known as “Rip” opened his travel centers in and around Lubbock, Texas where he was a huge Red Raiders …