About 4,800 gallons of crude oil spilled into Lake Keystone after a tanker truck overturned on a rocky embankment Saturday morning. The tanker was driving over the Keystone Lake land bridge, U.S. Highway 412. The tanker was clipped by a car that was driving...
Last month the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally issued new air pollution standards for cement kilns and industrial boilers. This seemed like good news but the rules were weakened, leaving many asking if they are enough. With three cement plants in Oklahoma, this is an...
For the last couple of days Oklahoma City and Tulsa have been under ozone alerts, but what does that mean? Well, you may have heard it also called an air pollution alert. It means, there is an unhealthy concentration of ozone pollution. Ozone is a...
Sen. James Inhofe (R. Okla.) announced on a webcast hosted by the conservative group, FreedomWorks, earlier this week that he plans to kill the EPA’s new mercury emissions rule for power plants. The resolution, S.J. Res. 37, can be brought to the Senate floor...
Tulsa will have their first ozone alert day on Friday and that means it’s important to avoid gas powered lawn equipment. Also a Swedish study conducted in 2001 found, “Air pollution from cutting grass for an hour with a gasoline powered lawn mower is about...
Rep. John Sullivan, of Oklahoma, introduced the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 (H.R. 2681) in the House yesterday and it just passed 262-161. This bill will exempt cement manufacturing plants from the Clean Air Act. This bill will have a direct effect on...
Environment America has released a report on smog statistics for 2010 and for the first 9 months of 2011, and it’s not pretty for Tulsa and Oklahoma City. In 2010 Tulsa was the 104th smoggiest city and Oklahoma City was 121st. Unfortunately this year...
Rep. John Sullivan, an Oklahoma congressman, introduced and was able to pass, H.R. 2401, the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act of 2011, which he says will save jobs. The bill is being called, by those that appose it, the...
President Obama surprised environmentalist after announcing that he was going to pull the plug on tightening the ozone standards. After the news Greenpeace released this video criticizing President Obama. POLITICO reported that the EPA wasn’t notified of about the decision until the day before...
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) tested water from Lake Overholser and Lake Hefner earlier this week and testing has conformed the presents of blue green algae in both lakes. This is the same algae that has forced the closer of beaches around Oklahoma....
