Seven counties in the state still have burn bans in effect despite the rainfall earlier in the week. “Yep, just as predicted…the rain didn’t exactly tamp down on the fire danger,” wrote Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet. “It helped in some ways, but as we’ve explained before, the cool season fire danger …
An environmental group is establishing offices in Oklahoma City but it’s not the kind of environmental group you think it is. Don’t consider it an environmental group that battles energy groups. The Earth and Water Group, a full-service virtual environmental solutions provider based in Washington, D.C. also named Mary Ellen Ternes as a Partner of …
A $1.67 billion purchase of Saudi Arabia-based Cristal by Tronox Ltd will create the world’s largest producer of titanium dioxide. It means the combined company, a 2005 spinoff from Oklahoma City-based Kerr McGee Corp., will operate eleven plants in eight countries and have a total of total capacity of 1.3 million metric tons a year. …
Get ready to shell out more money to take a drive down any of the Oklahoma turnpikes. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority’s move to increase fees takes effect March 1 as the rates go up 12 percent. It means a drive from Oklahoma City to Tulsa will go from $4 to $4.50. Pikepass users will see …
In his first address to the thousands of people who work for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, new Administrator Scott Pruitt delivered a message of what he expects of them. Smiling and holding an EPA baseball cap given to him during his introduction to workers gathered at EPA headquarters, Pruitt again stressed the ‘rule …
The National Association of Royal Owners is planning a STACK town hall meeting Thursday night to educate landowners about leases as the oil play gains widespread interest among oil and gas explorers. The meeting will be held at the Canadian Valley Technology Center located on old highway 66 midway between El Reno and Yukon. Jay Freede, …
While Oklahoma has attracted most of the interest nationally regarding connections between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells, experts in Pennsylvania claim to have found a similar connection. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection contends the hydraulic fracturing operations have caused low-level earthquakes in the state. The minor earthquakes occurred last April in Lawrence county near …
Environmentalists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe who are fighting the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline think they have something that could stop construction. It’s an overlooked memo from the top lawyer in the Obama administration’s Interior Department. Written by Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins, the 35-page memo outlined reasons the government …
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has appointed Secretary of State Mike Hunter to succeed Scott Pruitt as the state’s next attorney general, according to a news report by The Oklahoman. Pruitt was confirmed last week to become the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Hunter was named Oklahoma’s first assistant attorney general in June 2015, serving as …
While there are indications that gasoline prices in Oklahoma and elsewhere across the country could possibly climb by the time Memorial Day arrives, prices have slipped slightly in the past week. GasBuddy.com reports Oklahoma’s new average is $2.06 a gallon, a drop of 3 cents over the last several days. The national average is $2.28, …