Environment

House Bill 2992 would create the Data Center Customer Protection Act of 2026

A measure introduced in the legislature this year would prohibit anyone in Oklahoma from suing fossil fuel companies for damages related to the effects of climate change or greenhouse gas emissions.

A fluid leak has created a months-long dispute between a family and regulators over how the state is responding to what the family says is an oil-based substance seeping into their home.

Proposed legislation would allow companies to convert abandoned oil and gas wells for geothermal and energy storage use.

Conditions are expected to weaken Wednesday but build back up Thursday through Saturday.

On Feb. 13, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to reduce regulations on facilities that use hazardous substances.

Sen. James Lankford is cosponsoring a bill that would eliminate a tax contributing to the remediation of the country's most contaminated lands. More than a dozen such sites are listed in Oklahoma.

Ahead of the 2026 legislative session, elected officials filed dozens of environmental bills that range from reckoning with data centers to banning dams on a southeastern Oklahoma river.

As warming global temperatures cause weather unpredictability and infrastructure damage, a task force in Tulsa is identifying ways the city could improve its sustainability.

An annual winter bird count has taken place for more than 100 years. Some Oklahomans have created a family tradition out of the event.