Nagging worries that sluggish economic growth might reduce energy demand sent crude oil prices down 1% on Tuesday. But Oklahoma energy stocks responded with big 5% and 6% gains in some cases. West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 41 cents a barrel or 0.6% to settle at $71.74 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global …
For a third day, Oklahoma City and Tulsa are under ozone alerts issued by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. The latest alert will cover Wednesday, June 7, 2023. This alert will initiate the issuance of an “Ozone Alert Day” for the Oklahoma City area by the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments, and an “Ozone Alert Day” …
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners decided Tuesday to let an Administrative Law Judge issue a recommendation to them regarding the $155 million rate hike request made by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. Commission chairman Todd Hiett preferred using a legal term known as a “sua sponte order” in which the case could be assumed by the …
Documents and testimony in the $331 million rate hike request made by Oklahoma Gas and Electric with Oklahoma regulators show the utility encountered challenges in attempting to obtain new power through solar energy. The utility is seeking the rate hike to cover the replacement of aging power generating units at its Horseshoe Lake Power Plant …
If the Oklahoma Corporation Commission approves a fuel adjustment clause request for Panhandle Natural Gas, it will affect about 4,700 customers in northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle. An Administrative Law Judge will hold a hearing on the matter Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. and hear testimony to determine if Panhandle’s various charges and credits …
If the U.S. Energy Information Administration is right, we can expect higher oil prices as a result of the OPEC+ weekend announcement it will extend its oil production cuts through 2024, this on top of Saudi Arabia’s intentions of a voluntary oil production cut of 1 million barrels a day in July. In its June Short-Term …
Not all Native American tribes support Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s move last week to ban oil and gas leasing for the next 20 years around the historic Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. The Navajo Nation has come out against Haaland’s decision, saying it undermines the tribe’s sovereignty and might affect its tribal mineral …
** Votes on Republican bills that pertain to gas stoves were stalled Tuesday after a small group of House Republicans blew up an initial procedural vote. ** A major case alleging contamination by so-called forever chemicals will be postponed 21 days as the manufacturer and plaintiff close in on a deal. Judge Richard Gergel ordered the three-week …
Despite not coming away with a victory in the Kansas Supreme Court, the Kansas Sierra Club has newfound optimism about challenging confined swine feeding operations in the state. The high court ruled some of the permits allowed by the Kansas Department of health and Environment were “moot” or had run their course, so the …
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has come under investigation by a U.S. House Committee wanting to know more about her ties to an Indigenous environmental group from New Mexico that is pushing for a halt to oil and gas production on public lands. Haaland is a former New Mexico congresswoman who was appointed Interior Secretary …