The State of Texas is about to legally challenge the methane gas emission rules handed down recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Texas Railroad Commission voted this week to ask Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a Petition for Review. “These rules are just another assault from the Obama administration in its war …
August is when the 2016 Oklahoma Unmanned Aerial Systems Summit will be held at the National Weather Service in Norman. The 6th annual statewide summit is sponsored by the Unmanned Systems Alliance of Oklahoma, or USA-OK. The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission plans a presentation addressing legal and public policy issues of Unmanned Aircraft Systems on the evening …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says the chemical safety bill approved by the Senate and sent to the President to be signed into law is an historic piece of environmental regulatory reform. The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act awaits the President’s signature after the Senate approved it Tuesday with a …
The Iowa Utilities Board voted this week to give the green light for a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy transfer Partners to begin work in the state as part of a nearly $4 billion pipeline to carry Bakken oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The vote was 2-1 on the three member board in favor …
Developers of a natural gas pipeline in Vermont say the protest that resulted in the arrests of five people this week didn’t impact their work plans. Dozens protested in Williston at the site where Vermont Gas is building an extension of the transmission network 41 miles from Colchester to Middlebury. One woman locked herself to …
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett and three former Williams Companies chief executive officers joined forces in an effort to block the company’s merger with Energy Transfer Equity LP, according to a Bloomberg report. “My city will bear a very substantial cost for a transaction that destroys value for the shareholders it is supposed to benefit,” said …
Oklahoma City-based Seventy Seven Energy Inc. announced it has filed a pre-packaged plan for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. In doing so, the company said the plan provides for a substantial deleveraging transaction pursuant to which nearly $1.1 billion of the company’s outstanding debt will be converted to …
With the stroke of her pen, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill into law on Monday proclaiming a bridge over the North Canadian River near Seiling to be the “Meteorologist Gary England Bridge.” The bridge spans the river on U.S. Highway 60 north of the hometown of England who later went on to …
The city of Enid is considering a possible election to allow voters to decide on a sales tax hike to fund a Kaw Lake water pipeline project. City Commissioners might ask voters to create a new 1/4 percent tax to pick up where a quarter percent tax funding capital improvements will end in March 2018. …
Gasoline prices in Oklahoma continue holding at an average of $2.13 a gallon, according to the latest price survey from AAA Oklahoma. It is the same price as one week ago. Nationally, the average is $2.36 a gallon a increase of four cents a gallon since last week’s Memorial Day Holiday. “The state average has …