Environmental Protection

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.

As massive data centers begin popping up across Oklahoma, Indigenous organizers are sounding the alarm.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is at odds with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over new rules to reduce methane emissions. Drummond is leading a coalition of states in a lawsuit to stop what he calls “attacks on Oklahoma’s most vital industry.”

The Biden Administration's Endangered Species Act listing of some animals native to Oklahoma is being challenged by Congress. But there are landowners taking it upon themselves to volunteer their fields for prairie restoration.

TAARA is a newly-formed organization that advocates for better transparency regarding the environmental health of the Arkansas River.

It happens at the Riverwalk in Jenks on Saturday the 17th.