Graycen Wheeler

A federal court has sided with a refinery in Southern Oklahoma over the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the EPA couldn’t go back on an exemption it had issued for renewable fuel requirements.

Every four years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program must deliver a report to Congress summarizing what scientific data are saying about climate change.

Kansas and Oklahoma are eying an extension of the Heartland Flyer rail route that would connect Oklahoma City to Newton, Kansas. When they updated the public on the project this week, officials said they’re optimistic the project will be selected for competitive federal rail funding later this month.

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved both a four-year asset protection plan and an eight-year construction plan to maintain and improve the state's roads and bridges.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new Superfund site at Oklahoma’s Fansteel Metals, Inc. Covering 105 acres in Muskogee on Cherokee Nation land, the facility contains radioactive and toxic materials that could threaten the health and safety of people living nearby if not properly contained.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced the State Department of Education is partnering with PragerU Kids for the state’s history curriculum.

The new treatment plant will support Inola’s municipal sewer needs and the port’s industrial wastewater requirements, which the Tulsa Port Authority expects to grow as it attracts more businesses to the area.

Some of Stitt’s statements were accurate, but others were factually murky. Still others were misleadingly irrelevant to the issue of tribal compacts.

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s vetoes of a pair of compacts with the state’s tribal nations by Oklahoma’s legislature will not stand.