Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford and a handful of others say the Biden administration should abandon a plan to require new homes to be subject to “unrealistic and overly burdensome energy efficiency standards.” He and Sens. John Thune of South Dakota, Tim Scott of South Carolina, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Boozman of …
The strong showing that Williams Cos. had in the third quarter of this year is expected to gather steam in the coming months and at the same time, the Tulsa company made major gains in the Northeast part of the U.S. and in the D-J Basin of Colorado and Wyoming. In a recent conference …
A federal judge in Wyoming, where Oklahoma oil and gas companies are busy exploring for new energy, sided with the oil and gas industry in a fight with two environmental groups. The judge threw out a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians against the Interior Department, the state of …
Voters in Maine on Tuesday will decide if they want to give the boot to the state’s two largest electric utilities. In other words, voters will have the opportunity to forcibly remove the two investor-owned utilities that distributed 97% of electric in the state. It would be like forcing OG&E and PSO in Oklahoma …
Kratos, the California-based drone maker with a plant in Oklahoma City reported third quarter revenues of $274.6 million and operating income of $12.2 million. The company’s adjusted EBITDA totaled $27.7 million. At the same time, the firm made available a rendering of its latest stealth drone effort, the Thanatos. Kratos indicated it hopes to …
The question has been raised in light of this past week’s damaging announcement that Orsted was pulling out of the Biden administration’s major wind project off the coast of New Jersey—is there a double standard for the wind industry as compared to oil and gas when it comes to subsidies? While the Biden administration …
The effort by the Biden administration to pour $7 billion into development of regional hydrogen hubs, of which Oklahoma was not recently chosen, has its critics. Some have described the hydrogen hubs as a “key pillar of Bidenomics” and Oklahoma joined with Arkansas and Louisiana in hopes of being picked as one of several …
The Oklahoma AARP says 5,000 of its members helped lower PSO’s original rate hike request which was eventually lowered last Friday and approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The members sent complaints to the commission when Public Service Company originally filed a $294 million rate hike request. However, the comments in opposition to the …
With the arrival of El Nino, the discussion in recent days is which states will get more snowfall this winter and those that won’t. Oklahoma? According to the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will get more snow as El Nino lasts into spring. A map released by …
The allegations of “price gouging” against natural gas suppliers in Kansas has turned into an open records battle. The Kansas Corporation Commission has denied the request of an attorney who wanted to know how much suppliers were paid during the 2021 Winter Storm Uri, the same storm that paralyzed Texas, resulted in rolling blackouts …