U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is defending the move by President Trump to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. It’s what he said Monday afternoon in an interview on MSNBC. “If he didn’t do it, there would always be people out there, radicals, some of the far left groups, that would sue the United States, …
One of the measures quietly signed into law recently by Gov. Mary Fallin creates a tax on electric vehicles. HB 1449 calls for a $100 annual tax on electric vehicles and a $30 annual fee on hybrid electric vehicles. While it angered electric-car owners when the State House passed the measure on a 51-44 vote, …
Energy awards have gone to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and Heartland Energy Options for their work in encouraging alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles in Central Oklahoma. The Association of Central Oklahoma Government said the two received the 2016 Zach D. Taylor, Jr. Clean Cities Vision Awards. The Wildlife Conservation Department converted 33 …
Oklahoma doesn’t have the kind of coal industry compared to Kentucky or Wyoming so the latest news out of the U.S. Energy Information Administration might not be so surprising. But the amount of coal burned for electricity in 2016 was the lowest since 1984. It amounted to 677 million short tons burned which accounted for …
Oklahoma continues with some of the cheapest gasoline in the country as this week’s average pump price is $2.09, a 3-cent increase in the past week according to the weekly report from AAA Oklahoma. Surrounding states have prices about 3 cents higher including Arkansas and Missouri. The U.S. average is up slightly to $2.38 a …
Following U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows, the Sierra Club issued a response to Pruitt’s attempt to persuade the general public about the Trump Administration’s underlying decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement. “This Administration’s increasingly defensive attempts to spin their disastrous decision to leave the Paris …
(Courtesy of E&E News) The scientific community has warned that the Paris Agreement would not go far enough to limit global warming. U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is now using that criticism to help justify President Trump’s decision to exit the international climate accord. Speaking to the media Friday and over the weekend, Pruitt …
President Trump unveiled his three-year plan on Monday to modernize the nation’s air traffic control system through privatization. Trump believes an overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration is long overdue. Airline executives have advocated this position for some time. Under the plan, a private, non-profit organization would be developed to operate the nation’s air traffic …
(Courtesy of The New York Times) WASHINGTON — The campaign ad appeared during the presidential contest of 2008. Rapid-fire images of belching smokestacks and melting ice sheets were followed by a soothing narrator who praised a candidate who had stood up to President George W. Bush and “sounded the alarm on global warming.” It …
Following President Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accord on Thursday, it’s evident that the man who occupies the executive branch has merely acted on his longstanding belief that climate change was a false concept, according to a recent article published by Peter Baker of The New York Times. “Global warming …