by - June 22, 2015 10:27 pm
A Jonesboro city employee is joining the Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development as a deputy director, where she will work with grant administration. Heather Walker-Clark served as…
by - June 22, 2015 9:51 pm
A new study by researchers at Duke and North Carolina State universities shows that Arkansas’ fledgling biomass and wood pellet businesses could see huge growth over the next decade, thanks to European renewable energy goals.
by - June 22, 2015 1:21 pm
Southwest Power Pool (SPP) named Matt Morais associate general counsel for markets and regulatory policy. In this role, Morais will be responsible for legal and regulatory policy issues involving Federal…
by - June 22, 2015 7:35 am
Williams Companies, the Tulsa, Okla.-based natural gas pipeline and terminal operator, turned down an unsolicited buyout offer valued at 64 cents per share or $48 billion, the company announced on…
by - June 19, 2015 8:53 am
Pump prices in Arkansas and across the nation have unexpectedly climbed higher even though many market experts continue to believe prices are nearing a seasonal high.
by - June 18, 2015 9:04 am
A spokesman with Magellan Midstream Partners said the Tulsa-based pipeline company is in the final stages of permitting and acquiring easements for a distribution system that is expected to bring…
by - June 16, 2015 3:36 pm
Arkansas may score another superproject coup if a full-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) processing refining facility developed by two former top Clinton administration officials – Gen. Wesley Clark and Rodney Slater –…
by - June 16, 2015 1:42 pm
Executives with Clean Line Energy Partners LLC and the Paris-based Seves Group recently announced a deal to locate a glass insulator manufacturing plant in West Memphis that would support a…
by - June 15, 2015 4:51 pm
Environment & Energy Publishing reports that former Arkansas Public Service Commission chairwoman Colette Honorable wants to see her current employer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), play a supportive role…
by - June 15, 2015 2:56 pm
Arkansas’ rig count has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade as drillers and oilfield equipment companies have cut back substantially on upstream oil and gas capital…
by - June 12, 2015 5:48 am
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by - June 10, 2015 2:43 pm
An $8 million project to install solar panels at the Little Rock Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the first recipient of a newly resurrected award highlighting government waste, Rep. French…
by - June 10, 2015 6:37 am
The state’s congressional delegation – Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Reps. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, French Hill, R-Little Rock, Steve Womack, R-Rogers and Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs as well…
by - June 9, 2015 7:26 pm
A U.S. appellate court threw out a challenge to the EPA’s controversial Clean Power Plan by attorneys general in several states, saying the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was prematurely filed before the federal agency had drafted final rules.
by - June 8, 2015 9:24 am
Entergy Arkansas President and CEO Hugh McDonald will retire in 2016 after a 34-year career with the utility giant. He’s served 16 years at the helm of the state’s largest…
by - June 8, 2015 5:57 am
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by - June 6, 2015 6:08 pm
Content partner KAIT Ch. 8 in Jonesboro reports: The CEO of Ozark Mountain Poultry (OMP) made an economic announcement in Batesville Saturday afternoon. Ed Fryar said OMP is building a…
by - June 5, 2015 6:11 am
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by - June 3, 2015 5:04 pm
Since Entergy Arkansas Inc. (EAI) announced on April 24 that it had filed a request with the state Public Service Commission to raise average electric bills by $13 a month,…
by - June 3, 2015 5:02 pm
An interesting tidbit of trivia came to light in a recent Entergy Arkansas Inc. rate case filing when state Public Service Commission Elana Wills noted that she was a relative…
