In a fight with the Caddo Nation over the construction of a history center near Anadarko, the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes asked an Oklahoma City federal judge recently to throw out the Caddo Nation’s lawsuit challenging the site of the center. The Caddo Tribe contends the construction site holds sacred Caddo burial sites and filed …
Landfills nationwide now face new stands for methane gas emissions as set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As of last Friday, the final standards were released for new and modified municipal solid waste landfills and emission guidelines for existing ones. The EPA’s goal is to reduce methane emissions by about 334,000 tons a year …
The federal government and the state of Texas have announced a series of hearings to explore ways to improve passenger rail service from Oklahoma City to south Texas. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration and the Texas Department of Transportation have released 10 service and route options for new and improved conventional and …
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court has dealt a major blow to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its efforts to enforce Regional Haze rules covering the air over national lands in southern Oklahoma and Texas. The court stayed the EPA’s plan through pollution controls at certain power plants, siding with numerous power companies in Texas, …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Route 66, a highway made famous for attracting gas-guzzling Chevrolet Bel Airs traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles, is turning green. The Mother Road is seeing a growing number of electric car charging stations along the 2,500-mile path, and some states even are pushing for solar panels and electric buses. Illinois …
Damage totals are estimated at a range of $85 million to $200 million from the Grand River Dam Authority fire that occurred on July 1, according to the Tulsa World. The damaged area involves the main generating facility which will require replacement of the Chouteau facility’s largest coal-fired unit. “The turbine is the question,” said …
Congressman Steve Russell’s bill called the “Making Electronic Government Accountable by Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act” was passed by the Senate and sent to the President’s desk. It’s a measure that Rep. Russell contends will save American taxpayers more than $4 billion a year. He and Pennsylvania Congressman Matt Cartwright (D) introduced the measure in June …
Claims of constitutional challenges are emanating from both Texas U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith and New York attorney General Eric Schneiderman in their fight over the efforts of some attorneys general to carry out their own investigation of Exxon Mobil and its climate change research. Schneiderman responded after Rep. Smith and the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology …
Two years after former Rep. Terry J. Matlock was fired as CEO of Choctaw Electric Cooperative in southeast Oklahoma, he was indicted by a multi-county grand jury on charges of embezzlement. As OK Energy Today reported in September of 2015, Matlock came under investigation at the request of Gov. Mary Fallin. Matlock, a former Democrat …
Solar panels along the historic Route 66—the Mother Road— are coming, at least in the state of Missouri according to a re port by NBC News. Missouri’s Transportation Department says it will test a new type of pavement that also will help generate electricity through built-in solar panels. A company named Solar Roadways based in Idaho …