The State of California is going after cattle flatulence…..cow farts! It’s part of a climate change bill signed into law this week by Gov. Jerry Brown. While the bill targets methane gas and soot, it includes provisions requiring dairy farms to reduce methane gas emissions from cattle and manure by 40% by 2030. “When Noah wanted …
A new study by AAA and the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Automotive Research Center claims drivers in the U.S. wasted more than $2.1 billion over the last year by using premium-grade gasoline in cars and trucks that are designed to run on regular fuel. The study was prompted after AAA learned 16.5 million drivers …
Gasoline prices have dropped back down to a new statewide average of $2.03 a gallon in Oklahoma according to AAA Oklahoma. That’s 12 cents lower than the $2.15 range reported over the past few months. It’s also 4 cents a gallon cheaper than the price recorded just four weeks ago. Nationally, the average is $2.21 …
Some Oklahoma congressmen will be focusing on energy issues as they take part in U.S. House Committee hearings to be held this week. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a member of both the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power will take part in a Thursday joint hearing. It will examine …
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has dumped nearly half of his holding in Chesapeake Energy, going from 9.4 percent ownership of the Oklahoma City company down to 4.6 percent. He explained in a statement on Monday that it was done for tax purposes. “We believe that over the last few years Doug Lawler and his team …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony remains disappointed that the State’s regulatory body has received low marks nationally for its delays in handling some utility requests, including one that hasn’t had action in more than 2,000 days. So Anthony has the issue on Tuesday’s agenda of the Commission’s public meeting that starts at 9:30 a.m. It …
Oklahoma has not experienced any fuel shortages from a Southeast gasoline pipeline leak but several other states have. Colonial Pipeline says it might restart its Line 1 this week but the delay will continue causing some gas station outages and prices increases for a few more days. An estimated 336,000 gallons of gasoline spilled in the …
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments plans to begin a series of public meetings as it seeks public comment on a plan to invest more than $10 billion in central Oklahoma’s multimodal transportation system. ACOG Executive Director John G. Johnson will deliver one of the public presentations Tuesday night at the Norman public library. …
As the Tulsa World reported this week, the Tulsa Geoscience Center has become active in learning more about Oklahoma’s increased earthquakes. The Center also recently received its first sensor from the Quake-Catcher Network, making it the first one of the Tulsa area. The Center has become a part of a nationally effort involving citizens in …
Some hot weather will continue to be around this week even as energy workers are sweating away out in the oil and gas fields, working on wind generators or repairing power lines. That’s the forecast from the Oklahoma Mesonet where Gary McManus is the State Climatologist. “The truth is, summer isn’t dead, and while it …