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Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
In Kansas, for example, lawmakers gave TransCanada a 10-year tax exemption, which means the state won’t receive any property tax revenue from the pipeline. Meanwhile, each of the other five states—Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—would earn between $14 million and $63 million a year, according to U.S. State Department estimates. Continue reading
Coal Tax Credit System Draws Criticism from Legislative Panel Chairman
“I want to discuss the coal tax credit in some depth because I think it is a poster child for just about everything that is wrong with this system,” Dank said during the panel’s meeting Wednesday. Continue reading
Oklahoma Town Fears Cancer, Asthma May be Linked to Dump Site
EPA Proposed Declaring Coal Ash Hazardous Waste, Considering More Lenient Standards By Jim Sciutto for ABC Nightly News with Diane Sawyer (video story at link) Many residents of Bokoshe, Okla., have a common fear: a coal ash dump site. “It’s … Continue reading
EPA Wants Three State Coal Plants to Convert
By Jim Myers for the Tulsa World WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal Monday to require three of Oklahoma’s oldest coal-fired power plants to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas or install technology to control pollution. EPA’s … Continue reading
Bokoshe: The Toxic Truth
Bokoshe, Oklahoma and its residents are legally being poisoned. This poison is in the air, in the water, and settles on everything that happens to be near. It isn’t a pesticide or nuclear waste – though it is just as destructive as the former, and nearly as dangerous as the latter. This poison is known as coal fly ash. It is the residue left from burning coal in coal-burning power plants, and it is regularly dumped in a pit far too close to the town for safety. Continue reading
Okla. AG Seeks Review of Texas Power Plants
Attorney General Drew Edmondson wants the Environmental Protection Agency to review the process for permitting coal-fired power plants in Texas. Continue reading
From Oklahoma: In Bokoshe, Ash Stirs Health Debate
The three men in their 60s sit in Sassy’s Place — the only cafe in this small eastern Oklahoma town of 463 people — ticking off the names of neighbors and matching illnesses as if reading off a grocery list. And while all three of the longtime Bokoshe-area residents stop short of blaming the coal ash disposal pit just south of town for all their neighbors’ illnesses, they do see a link. Continue reading
Oklahoma Transmission Line Opens Wind Energy Potential
Energy company OG&E has energized a new $200 million transmission line it says will open up a “vital parthway” for wind power generators in northwestern Oklahoma. Continue reading
Oklahoma Legislature Beating Kansas to Renewable Energy Economy
Legislation pending in the Oklahoma House of Representatives could be a boon to the state’s economic development efforts, an official said. Energy Secretary Robert Wegener said the Oklahoma Energy Security Act could result in a renewable energy portfolio standard for Oklahoma. Continue reading
Wind Energy Leadership in Oklahoma
Shannon Ferrell, 34, an Oklahoma State University assistant professor of agricultural law, will be part of a panel discussion on ways rural Oklahomans can profit from wind energy at Revolution 2009: The Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference. His program will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. Continue reading
