A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace states that the nation’s largest coal mining companies depend greatly on subsidized federal coal and some have actually increased business because of what Greenpeace calls “corporate welfare for coal.”…
Environmentalists who say the Gulf of Mexico is their next front in the fight against oil and gas drilling made their point recently by protesting a federal auction of the oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. About 300 climate activ…
New figures from the Oklahoma Department of Employment Security show the state’s jobless rate rose a tenth of a point, reaching 4.2 percent for February. The increase came as the nation’s jobless rate held steady at 4.9 percent. But the figures also sh…
Low petroleum prices continue to pummel producers all across Oklahoma hard. Among the hardest hit are the small and marginal producers who don?t have very deep pockets when it comes to weathering the low-price storm. Many of those producers are seein…
Snowfall on Easter Sunday might have done what hundreds of firefighters couldn’t do in the past week and that was extinguish a wildfire that started in northern Oklahoma and burned into Kansas, scorching more than 400,000 acres of land.
A spokeswomanw…
Turning pig poop into electricity? It’s what Duke Energy Corp. plans to do in North Carolina. The Charlotte based utility announced it has contracted with Carbon Cycle Energy to build a plant that will collect methane from pig and chicken waste, refine…
“I know this news is unsettling.” Alan Armstrong, CEO of Williams Cos.
Word that the merger of Williams Cos. with Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity will likely mean the consolidation of corporate offices and headquarters and relocation to…
Just as Chuck Mai at AAA Oklahoma predicted earlier in the week, the nation’s gasoline average rose over the $2 average. It hit $2.01 on Thursday while Oklahoma’s average price was $1.87, or 37 cents above the price one month ago. Still, AAA Oklahoma …
The U.S. Geological Survey will be out this week with a report and its first-ever maps showing potential ground-shaking hazards from human-induced and natural earthquakes.
It no doubt will include the induced earthquakes that have produced something …
Oil prices aren’t the only things falling this week. So are the rig counts in Oklahoma and across the U.S. according to the latest figures released by Baker Hughes Company of Houston, Texas.
Oklahoma’s count fell by three to reach 63, down from the 13…
