Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe wanted brief answers and he got them this week from U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao who appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. He raised two concerns including the Trump administration’s proposal to privatize the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system. “If this becomes a discussion in …
Days after NextEra suffered a second legal setback in its plans to build two windfarms near Hinton, Oklahoma, the giant energy company was rejected a second time in its $18.7 billion offer to buy Texas-based Oncor. The Texas Public Utility Commissioners ruled against NextEra and did not without any discussion, stating the purchase would not …
More than two years after Sen. Jim Inhofe led the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee opposition to plans to protect the greater sage grouse from oil and gas drilling on federal lands, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is reviewing those plans. He announced this week the start of a review to determine if the plans …
Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Steve Russell says the EPA selected Oklahoma City to receive $500,000 to help continue its work cleaning up contaminated brownfield properties. “Ultimately, actions such as these help us to be good stewards of the environment and can even save money before a situation becomes worse,” said Russell in making the announcement. Brownfields …
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is one of 16 Republican attorneys general urging the President and Congress to pass a law saying no federal agency regulations are enforceable in federal courts. They sent a letter to President Trump recently and released it this week saying they have been involved in litigation against federal agencies based …
It was in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” when Mr. McGuire told Ben (Dustin Hoffman), “Plastics—-there’s a great future in plastics, Think about it. Will you think about it?” Executives at Dow Chemical apparently took the advice. Construction’s wrapped up on a new Dow Chemical plastics plant south of Houston. The Company announced this …
Tulsa-based SemGroup Corporation has announced a $2 billion acquisition of one of the largest oil terminals in the U.S. The company executed an agreement to buy Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company from investment funds managed by Alinda Capital Partners. It’s a purchase that establishes SemGroup in the premier energy market—-the Houston Ship Channel. The terminal …
Things were so bumpy Tuesday for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, you couldn’t blame him to still be smarting over the appearance. He was repeatedly interrupted by the hosts including Joe Scarborough who demanded a ‘yes or no’ answer from Pruitt to the question whether he had discussed …
Oklahoma City’s Devon Energy and Chesapeake Energy are among those firms credited with turning Wyoming’s Powder River Basin into the revitalized oil and gas region it is today. It’s a region that is seeing a revival in drilling operations. As Bloomberg News reported this week, the region will get $600 million in new wells from Chesapeake, …
The states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are putting up a fight over those federal government fracking practices the Obama administration launched on federal and tribal lands. In a filing this week in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, the states argued the Bureau of Land Management does not have the authority to issue …