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The Oklahoma attorney general's office filed testimony with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seeking to slash AEP-PSO's proposed rate hike.
Tulsa-based Public Service Company of Oklahoma, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, filed a rate increase request on July 9. In the filing, PSO estimated current rates are $52.4 million below annual costs for delivering power.
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EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving a revision to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Oklahoma through the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality on February 19, 2010, intended to address the regional haze requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In addition, EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving a portion of a revision to the Oklahoma SIP submitted by the State of Oklahoma on May 10, 2007 and supplemented on December 10, 2007 to address the requirements of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) as it applies to visibility for the 1997 8- hour ozone and 1997 fine particulate matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards. This CAA requirement is intended to prevent emissions from one state from interfering with the visib...
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The fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expressed an overwhelming scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is a serious problem.1 The US Supreme Court not only addressed climate change for the first time, but also found that the US Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") had abused its discretion in denying a petition asking it to regulate motor vehicle emissions.2 The UN security Council also took an initial look at climate change, with a ranging debate over its security implications.3 Amid that furor, it is perhaps unsurprising that another important moment in climate regulation slipped by without nearly so much public attention. [...] after over a decade of concentrated effort on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that has resulted in a 12.5 p...
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American Electric Power is seeking to cut up to 2,000 workers from its payroll by the end of May, according to an e-mail circulated among all 22,000 of its employees.
AEP is seeking a work force reduction between 5 percent to 10 percent, or 1,000 to 2,000 employees companywide, said Stan Whiteford, spokesman for the AEP affiliate, Public Service Company of Oklahoma. PSO-AEP employs 1,000 in the Tulsa area and 1,700 statewide.
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CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings of AEP Texas Central (TCC) and concurrently affirmed the long-term ratings for American Electric Pow...
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Stan Whiteford, spokesman for AEP/PSO, has been named Public Relations Professional of the Year by the Tulsa Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
Kristin Ware, university relations coordinator for the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, was named the chapter's Young Professional of the Year. Lauren Williams, a student at Oklahoma State University, was presented the Montaz Tjaden Future Young Professional of the Year award.
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To: ENERGY EDITORS
Contact: Media, Pat D. Hemlepp, Director, Corporate Media Relations, +1-614-716-1620, or Analysts, Bette Jo Rozsa, Managing Director, Investor Relations, +1-614-716-2840, both of American Electric Power
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The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to improve air quality that would require three Oklahoma coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas or install multimillion- dollar sulfur dioxide-scrubbing mechanisms within three years.
The plan, announced Monday, is part of the federal agency's push to implement the Clean Air Act of 1990. The federal law requires states to produce a plan to reduce air emissions that cause haze over wilderness areas, including the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
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A local company will be installing a line of 20-watt retrofit LED interior/exterior white light kits at Holland Hall preparatory school, saving the private school not only money, but energy.
The LED retrofit units replace 65-watt incandescent and fluorescent can lights that are used throughout the lighting industry.