Upgrades can reduce utility costs Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | Comments 2 Want to cut your utility bills, enjoy a more comfortable home this winter and curb pollution with a few easy do-it-yourself energy upgrades? By spending about $100, you can expect to save hundreds...

Sinclair Oil pays $2.45 million for air violations Tue, Jan 15, 2008 | Add a comment WASHINGTON - Sinclair Oil Corp., has agreed to pay $2.45 million in civil penalties and reduce emissions from three of its refineries in Wyoming and Oklahoma as part of a clean air settlement with...

Tropical storm could bring rain Thu, Aug 16, 2007 | Add a comment Today might be the last day in a string of ozone-laced 99 and 100 degree days, but count on a little more heat and dirty air for the time being. A developing tropical storm near the Gulf Coast...

Ozone alert extended to Thursday for OKC, Tulsa areas Wed, Aug 15, 2007 | Comments 1 Minor changes on rim

Smog levels put residents on high alert Wed, Aug 15, 2007 | Comments 1 Officials issued the second consecutive ozone alert for the Oklahoma City and Tulsa areas for today, fearing dangerous smog levels. Smog reached unhealthy levels Tuesday in the Tulsa area and...

Haze may faze clean-air efforts Fri, Aug 3, 2007 | Comments 1 Updated first three grafs

Options to enhance air quality
Oklahoma is blessed with many choices in fighting pollution Mon, Jul 30, 2007 | Comments 1 Oklahoma has seen many technological advances during the past century. In less than three generations, we turned "The Great Western Desert” into "The Breadbasket of the World.” This progress,...

Who's the dirtiest of them all?
Not Oklahoma, but we're getting closer Mon, Jun 25, 2007 | Comments 6 While most areas nationally are reducing smog levels, Oklahoma County's rating worsened and Tulsa County kept a failing grade, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the American Lung...

Ozone air penalties hover as summer alerts increase Mon, Jun 25, 2007 Local officials fear a rash of high ozone readings might lead to stiff economic consequences if the area runs afoul of federal clean air standards. It would take several years of high readings to...

Pollution Clouding Image Of the Great Southwest Tue, Jul 11, 2006 Editor's Note Respiratory patients have flocked to the desert Southwest since the tuberculosis outbreaks of the 1940s, but today Phoenix may have the worst carbon monoxide pollution in the...