Add Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese to the list of those supporting Donald Trump’s nomination of Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be the next leader of the Environmental Protection Agency. Reese issued a statement this week saying the ultra-green environmental groups won’t get the Armageddon they predict “It won’t be Armageddon, but a major dust …
Donald Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt promises to be one of the more controversial confirmation hearings in his new administration and opponents have already laid out their plans. For instance, the Sierra Club has started a five-figure, online ad campaign in a bid to convince seven Republican and three moderate Democratic Senators …
Environmentalists aren’t just critical of oil and gas and coal operations in Oklahoma and across the country, but now one group has targeted Smithsonian magazine. It’s considered one of the nicest slick-magazine productions in the country. But Green America contends Smithsonian’s 19 million magazines produced a year should be printed on recycled paper, a move …
American automaker General Motors has won the sprint with Tesla in the competition to roll out the latest version of an electric vehicle to the general public. GM announced Tuesday it delivered its first group of Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars to three customers in Fremont, California – the same city where Elon Musk’s rival …
Former U.S. Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma said Monday that he thinks Attorney General Scott Pruitt will do a “great job” as chief administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a published report in the Tulsa World. Nickles also predicted Pruitt’s confirmation will not be an “easy process,” according to the report. “Talk …
Alva native Tom McDaniel will receive the 2017 Leadership Oklahoma Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s annual Excellence in Leadership Gala to be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa on Saturday, April 1, 2017. “Each year, Leadership Oklahoma recognizes the outstanding contributions of Oklahoma corporate and individual leaders for their commitment and service …
The fight over a 1989 bribed Corporation Commission vote took another step late Friday as ATT filed a motion with the State Supreme Court to suppress some 4,000 pages of documents that detail the bribe by a late Southwestern Bell Telephone company attorney of a sitting Corporation Commissioner and of corporation commission staff. ATT filed …
The city of El Reno recently raked in $4.8 million over the competitive bidding for the three-year lease rights to minerals on the City’s Airpark. Haggard Land Company based in Oklahoma City cast the winning bid offering $15,000 per acre and a 20 percent royalty on any oil or natural gas it pulls from beneath …
The Water Bill passed Thursday by the U.S. House included the Oklahoma Water Rights Settlement between Oklahoma City, the state of Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation. It was a deal reached earlier in the year and announced by Gov. Mary Fallin. The measure, formally known as the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation …
“A full-fledged environmental emergency.” “A professional climate denier.” “This is a four-alarm fire.” Those are comments from Democrats in the U.S. Senate in describing Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and his nomination to be the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. But as E and E News reported in its recent Climate Wire, Republicans …