The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has decided the full panel of active circuit judges will hear the case of the Clean Power Plant as challenged by Oklahoma and a few dozen other states. The hearing was postponed until Sept. 27, a move considered unusual. The Washington Post indicated the decision by …
University of Texas researchers now are making the claim that nearly 90 percent of the earthquakes in Texas in the past ten years have been caused by oil and gas activities. Geoscientist Cliff Frohlich at the University of Texas-Austin is one of them and believes nearly nine in 10 of the quakes were directly the …
A Texas wind energy company is one of those proposing the idea of floating wind turbines off the shores of Hawaii to bring more renewable energy to the state. A.W. Hawaii Wind is a Texas subsidiary of Denmark-based Alpha Wind Energy and wants to build two offshore floating wind farms, each generating about 400 megawatts …
While 80 more Duncan residents signed onto a federal lawsuit against Halliburton Energy Services because of groundwater contamination dating back to the 1960s, a federal judge in Oklahoma City has refused to limit the testimony of a company hydrology expert at the approaching trial. U.S. District judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued her ruling this week as …
Houston-based Plains All-American Pipeline has been indicted on criminal charges by a California grand jury over the May 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill that released about 3,000 barrels of oil onto a beach and into the Pacific Ocean. At least 4 criminal charges were returned by the grand jury including four felonies charged the firm …
One of the bills signed into law this week by Gov. Mary Fallin was HB 2446, a water protection bill. Authored by Rep. Terry O’Donnell and Sen. Dan Newberry, the measure “declares the protection of the beneficial uses of provided bodies of water in Oklahoma to be a compelling state interest subject to legislative authority …
Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries, Inc. says its new 375,000 ton ammonia plant is now operational at the El Dorado, Arkansas facility. “We are pleased to have achieved this critical milestone with the start-up of the new ammonia plant at our El Dorado facility,” said Daniel Greenwell, LSB’s Chief Executive Officer. “We believe that the ammonia plant …
A $1 billion wind farm is being proposed for northeast Colorado by the state’s largest electric utility. Xcel Energy has filed documents with the Public Utilities Commission to build the Rush Creek Wind Project over 90,000 acres in Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties. Once completed the 300-turbine farm would generate …
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled against the Narragansett Indian Tribe in its fight to block construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm. The tribe had sought a temporary restraining order against installation of a transmission cable, contending Indian artifacts had been discovered and improperly removed during the digging of a trench. …
While Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s attacking Democratic Attorneys General for targeting energy firms, the Attorney General in Texas has gone to court asking a judge to block U.S. Virgin Islands officials from subpoenaing 40 years of internal climate change documents from Exxon Mobil Corp. Ken Paxton calls it “a fishing expedition of the …