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The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new carbon emission rule for the U.S. power industry on Wednesday, replacing an Obama-era regulation to fight climate change that it scrapped for being too hard on the coal industry.
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
Governor Stitt stressed that the state will continue to request additional counties be added to the Individual Assistance Major Disaster Declaration as damage assessments of impacted homes and businesses are completed.
The U.S. Coast Guard today announced that Seattle, Wash. will be the home of the service’s new Polar Security Cutters.
The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Foundation (OCF) is utilizing their permanent Natural Disaster Relief Fund to foster charities, like the phenomenal $25k contribution by Oklahoma AgCredit, to aid cattlemen affected by on-going flooding and severe weather throughout Oklahoma.
Feral Hog Management, Soil Health and USDA Program Updates will be the topics at a FREE workshop and lunch on June 20 in Spiro.
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is encouraging horse owners across the state to take precautions against West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis by vaccinating their horses. After the recent rainfall, there is a possibility mosquitoes will be more prevalent.
Ronald J. Norick, Chairman of the Board, recently announced the Oklahoma State
Fair Board of Directors has added, by unanimous approval: Robert H. Alexander Jr., P.C., and Robin
Roberson to its ranks.
The State of Texas gets a new water discharge bill. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill to allow the discharge of oil and gas produced water into rivers and streams but at the same time gave new powers to the State’s Commission on Environmental Quality.
Study shows 571 species wiped out, and scientists say figure is likely to be big underestimate
As lawmakers consider temporary sites for nuclear waste storage, two locations in New Mexico and Texas face headwinds that could pressure Congress to revive licensing hearings on the Department of Energy application to build a Nevada repository.
Flood-impacted private well support event
From above, Earth appears as a water planet with more than 71 percent of its surface covered with this vital resource for life.
B.A.S.S. and Lake Guntersville have a long and continuing history dating back to 1976. That year, Rick Clunn won his first of four Bassmaster Classics, and next March, the fishery is on slate to hold the 50th edition of the Classic.
“Everyone can make a difference,” stated by Rebecca Snyder, Curator of Conservation and Science for Oklahoma City Zoo.
A new report prepared for the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee lays out which military installations in the U.S. are most vulnerable to climate change. None are in Oklahoma but there are some in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.
A lawsuit’s been filed by three environmental groups to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue an assessment on the possible re-introduction of federal protections for lesser prairie chickens in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and three other states.
The first environmental review is out for the nation’s largest solar power array.
A House committee shot down a second attempt to add federal funding to reopen licensing hearings on the Department of Energy’s application to build a permanent nuclear waste repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.
Complex legal cases are helping some residents, but not others
Governor Kevin Stitt announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the state’s request for disaster assistance for seven more Oklahoma counties impacted by flooding, tornadoes, severe storms and straight-line winds.
Speedway Children’s Charities-Texas is a longtime partner of Tarrant Area Food Bank, which serves other food banks throughout North Texas
A near record-sized “dead zone” of oxygen-starved water could form in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, threatening its huge stocks of marine life, researchers said.
Feral Hog Management, Soil Health and USDA Program Updates will be the topics at a FREE workshop and lunch on June 20 in Spiro.
Fire season, which now covers much of the year in much of the state, has begun in earnest as California dries out and heats up.
June is National Pet Preparedness Month
Governor Kevin Stitt announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the state’s request for disaster assistance for seven Oklahoma counties hit hard by flooding, tornadoes, severe storms and straight-line winds
ALL SEWAGE SLUDGE recently tested by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection was contaminated with PFAS chemicals, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state.
Fruit and vegetable growers and others interested in learning about
produce safety and regulation are invited to attend a Produce Safety Alliance Grower
Training Course from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 25 in the Wichita Room of the Prairie
Building at the Comanche County Fairgrounds.
Topeka Kan- The month of May was an all-timer in Kansas, as sites across the state recorded rain on all but two days.
In a key property rights decision, two West Virginia residents scored a rare victory from the state Supreme Court.
OKLAHOMA CITY OK. – Devon Energy is partnering with the Oklahoma FFA Foundation to put new technology in the hands of Oklahoma students.
Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) on Tuesday joined Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan, Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Pete Gaynor, Governor Kevin Stitt, and Congressman Kevin Hern (OK-1) to tour flood damage in Tulsa and visit with volunteers at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for awarding grants to Brownfields sites in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
Environmentalists who have flown over the flooded regions of eastern Oklahoma say it appears that the flooding around Tar Creek is putting some residents in danger.
More Nevada families and small businesses are slated to have access to solar energy with a new law.
Pumpers, linesman, oilfield derrick hands and wind turbine technicians can no doubt attest to just how wet the month of May was in Oklahoma.
Cytauxzoonosis (aka bobcat fever) is an acute, often fatal tick-borne disease caused by the hematoprotozoan parasite Cytauxzoon felis. Cytauxzoonosis often strikes healthy, young adult cats who have access to or live outdoors.
While a Texas federal appeals court has ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in a fight over WOTUS, a Tulsa federal judge has ruled against Oklahoma’s bid for an injunction against the expansion of powers.
Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency has confirmed alligator sightings in Tennessee are true.
U.S. government biologists have launched a special investigation into the deaths of at least 70 gray whales washed ashore in recent months along the U.S. West Coast, from California to Alaska, many of them emaciated, officials said on Friday.
$4+ billion in vital mitigation funds could move forward today, if approved.
Due to heavy rains and flooding in the Ponca City area, the workshop originally scheduled for June 6 will be postponed until September 4.
The U.S. Interior Department is determined to sell oil leases for the first time this year in the ecologically sensitive but presumably petroleum-rich coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a Trump administration official said on Thursday.
