Bill to rename lake named for Tulsa Klansman sinks
SB 937 would have changed the name of Lake Hudson in Mayes County to Lake Markham, in honor of a family that helped settle the area around the Grand River in the 1840s.
Brianna Bailey March 1, 2019
SB 937 would have changed the name of Lake Hudson in Mayes County to Lake Markham, in honor of a family that helped settle the area around the Grand River in the 1840s.
Clifton Adcock February 26, 2019
The bill requiring poultry house setbacks had been assigned to the House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, which was scheduled to meet on Monday afternoon. But the meeting was cancelled by the committee’s chairman Rep. Dell Kerbs, R-Shawnee, before the bill could be heard.
Clifton Adcock February 20, 2019
A separate rule that would have lowered the permitted amount of the chemical selenium in most rivers and stream was withdrawn after the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality opposed the stricter requirements.
Clifton Adcock February 19, 2019
The rules, which are less strict than those that had been put out by ODAFF for public comment, must now get the approval of the Legislature and governor.
For the Frontier Mike Soraghan, E&E News reporter February 19, 2019
Investigators suspected Dennis Mason was killed by toxic vapors from the oil.
But they weren’t able to prove it, because state medical examiners didn’t test Mason’s blood for petroleum chemicals
Clifton Adcock January 31, 2019
The Walton Family Foundation is offering to pay GRDA for most of the estimated $15.6 to $18 million cost of the proposed whitewater park on the Illinois River in Adair County.
Clifton Adcock January 23, 2019
While one of the bills currently has requirements that are more stringent than those proposed in December by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the other currently has requirements that are much less stringent than those proposed by the department.
Brianna Bailey January 22, 2019
State officials first investigated changing the name of Lake Hudson after The Frontier reported on its namesake’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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