After lugging around bags of empty soda bottles for an environmental club at her Oklahoma City high school, 17-year-old Andrea Hernandez decided to take her eco-ethics home to a family that wasn’t all that excited to hear her ideas. Her mother acted confused when she found her daughter labeling the family’s trash bins by categories: […]
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How could wind power evolve in Oklahoma’s future?
People often talk about Oklahoma’s wind power industry in the future tense ” as if wind turbines will magically appear in 2030, the year some economic projections say the state could become one of the nation’s biggest producer of the renewable resource. POLICY AND POLITICSWIND POWER TO THE PEOPLEPRAIRIE-CHICKEN PLIGHTTHE ROAD TRAVELED Left out of […]
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Oklahoma receives grant to upgrade school buses
The last time the Union of Concerned Scientists evaluated Oklahoma’s efforts to reduce kids’ exposure to unhealthy school bus exhaust, they gave the state a “D” on its report card. FEDERAL STANDARDSVEHICLE UPGRADE COSTSFALSE IDLE “Oklahoma did terrible” on that 2006 report, said Patty Monahan, deputy director of the environmental group’s Clean Vehicles program. “At […]