Oklahoma
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Scott Pruitt took a $14,000 flight to Oklahoma to talk about closing EPA offices
The EPA chief has taken at least four trips on chartered and government flights since his confirmation, at a cost of $58,000.
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Oklahoma had 3 times more earthquakes than California last year
2014 was a crazy year for quakes in the Sooner state -- and fracking was partly to blame.
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Tulsa authorities bulldoze edible garden for being too tall
Denise Morrison had read the city code and knew her plants were legal. So why did the city come to her yard and bulldoze her garden?
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All you need to know about TransCanada’s new plan for Keystone XL
Keystone XL lives! TransCanada announced its next two moves in its fight to get the tar-sands pumping pipeline built, and its strategy now involves splitting the project into two parts.
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Oklahoma makes bold move to not eat human fetuses
Apparently the new hotness among Republicans is legislating against things that don't exist.
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Clean energy policies create more jobs than Keystone
Obama is poised to reject Keystone XL this afternoon, so brace for a lot of Republican bellyaching about how he obviously doesn’t care about jobs. There is a problem with this line of argument, and it’s that it is nonsense. Don’t believe us? Check out this graph, from ThinkProgress, which shows how Obama administration policies […]
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Fracking causing earthquakes in England and Oklahoma
Natural gas fracking caused an earthquake in England. And a spate of quakes in Oklahoma. And while the idea that fracking for natural gas causes earthquakes has been floating around, these quakes offer stronger proof that fracking seriously messes with the environment. And while these quakes, peaking in intensity around the high 2s on the […]
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'Under the weather' Inhofe skips climate denier conference
As a record drought roasts Oklahoma, "under the weather" climate denier Jim Inhofe bails out of Heartland Institute's Conference on Climate Change.
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Keystone pipeline spilled tar-sands oil 11 times in past year. Do we really want to supersize it?
The routes of the existing and proposed Keystone pipelines. Image: RL MillerThe State Department is currently weighing whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar-sands oil some 2,000 miles southward, from Alberta, Canada, to Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. It would be an expansion of the now-operational Keystone pipeline that goes as […]