oklahoma, Tag

One of the United States' biggest electric utilities, American Electric Power (AEP) is planning to build a two-gigawatt wind farm - and they want consumers to pay for it...

Oklahoma has become an earthquake hotspot in recent years, and many are blaming companies that engage in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Last year, the state saw its largest earthquake ever recorded at a 5.8 magnitude,...

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma claimed Thursday on CNN that the Environmental Protection Agency is “brainwashing” America’s children, defending Donald Trump’s plan to cut the agency’s funding by 31 percent...

Federal map of earthquake vulnerability finds threat to seven million people in central and eastern US amid increasing oil and gas production

The Justice Department accused Aubrey McClendon of rigging bids for oil and gas land leases, the first executive to be charged in investigation into price fixing

The third strongest earthquake ever reported in Oklahoma struck Saturday morning. Registering a 5.1 on the Richter scale, the quake was followed by several aftershocks, including one with a magnitude 3.9, according to the...

Seismologists’ warnings about hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal divide residents, politicians and companies in Colorado and Oklahoma, while temblors increase around the region

4.2 magnitude quake is among more than 800 in the state in 2015, and many are occurring in areas where wells pump byproducts of oil and gas production

Magnitude-4.4 temblor Saturday was among nearly 700 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in state this year, compared to 20 throughout 2009

Decision comes after recent uptick in temblors – 35 of at least 3.0 magnitude from 17-24 June – but it remains unclear what such regulations will look like

The close ties between university officials and big oil companies is a conflict of interest that is hampering research that the industry sees as unfavorable

The structure, located in an area known as Tornado Alley, would visually reference the movement of tornadoes, with lighting designed and placed to evoke a spinning motion...

The structure, located in an area known as Tornado Alley, would visually reference the movement of tornadoes, with lighting designed and placed to evoke a spinning motion...

Oklahoma used to have, on average, one or two perceptible earthquakes a year. Now the state is averaging two or three a day. There were more magnitude 3 or greater tremors here last year than anywhere else in the continental...

The new rules will control coal ash tank sites and monitor new and existing impoundments for contamination of groundwater