Barbara Haberock, Oklahoma Voice
July 25, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma House during the interim will take a look at dark money in elections, abandoned medical marijuana facilities and water depletion.
Those are just a few of the 127 House interim studies that will be held.
KGOU | By Chloe Bennett-Steele, StateImpact Oklahoma
Published July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM CDT
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Office of Research and Development and reduce its workforce.
The termination includes the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center in Ada, which has undergone reductions-in-force in recent months.
July 15, 2025
Crude oil spills — and gasoline, diesel and motor oil spills — can have a long shelf life, 33 years in this case. The pollution recently bubbled to the surface of the public record, although the extent of the spill, and the kind of petroleum product it was, could not be determined.
Kayla Branch, The Frontier
June 22, 2025
Efforts to more accurately track commercial groundwater use in Oklahoma failed again this year at the Legislature after facing tight deadlines and some pushback from agricultural interests.
by Em Luetkemeyer
May 22, 2025
The Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts billions in Environmental Protection Agency funds, but Rep. Tom Cole, the top appropriator in the House, doesn’t want environmental research in his district to become collateral damage.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones.
Doyle Rice and Jana Hayes, The Oklahoman
May 9, 2025
KOSU | By Graycen Wheeler
Published April 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM CDT
Oklahomans get more than half the water they use from aquifers. But the same areas that hold those underground water supplies are also sprinkled with orphan oil wells.
Author: Breanna Barker, Oklahoma Water Resources Center
April 08, 2025
The Oklahoma Well Owner Network program, offered through Oklahoma State University Extension and OSU’s Oklahoma Water Resources Center, will host a “Get Well-Informed” free well water testing event for residents in 11 counties across southeast Oklahoma this spring.
Author: Dr. Christine Pappas, East Central University
April 4, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency has long been a favorite target of the budget knife, but a new looming threat is different in magnitude and impact.
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