WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of the 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard volume mandates.
“Not surprisingly the Administration waited until Congress was out of town to make a major announcement about the ethanol mandate in our nation’s gasoline supplies,” said Inhofe.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Insurance payments from the May tornado outbreak across central Oklahoma have now topped $1 billion.
“These numbers are staggering,” said Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak. “We’ve topped $1 billion in payments and the rebuilding is just beginning. We expected to see these amounts and they continue to go up every week. This is a major catastrophe that’s impacted thousands of Oklahomans. Some survivors are still dealing with insurance and rebuilding issues. We can’t fix everything overnight, but we will be here for them until the last claim is paid.”
FOX News has posted a video interview with a Tennessee newspaper editor who was fired for a headline critical of President Obama. He says his bosses bowed to pressure from the president’s supporters, claiming he wouldn’t have been canned if he had said the same of former President George W. Bush.
Drew Johnson’s editorial, titled “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” went viral and drew national attention earlier this week when Obama visited the city.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial page editor was later ousted. The newspaper released a statement Thursday saying Johnson had been fired for “placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.”
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While many volunteers generously responded to the emergency call for blood donations from the American Red Cross in July, donors of all blood types, especially O negative, A negative and B negative, are still needed this summer. Blood products are being distributed to hospitals almost as quickly as donations are coming in.
Blood and platelets are needed for many reasons. Accident and burn victims, heart surgery patients and organ transplant recipients, as well as those receiving treatment for cancer or sickle cell disease, may depend on lifesaving transfusions. In fact, every two seconds a patient in the U.S. needs a blood transfusion.
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Attorney General Scott Pruitt
Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit filed charges Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court against a self-employed Lawton counselor.
Shannon Rose, 46, was charged with three counts of Medicaid fraud and one count of identity theft. According to the charges, Rose billed more than 860 fraudulent claims in excess of $78,000 to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.
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