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• 12 of you said you automatically don’t support anybody he chooses
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By Emma Murphy, Oklahoma Voice
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the largest aluminum smelter in the country from being built in Inola. 

The Inola aluminum smelter, dubbed Oklahoma Primary Aluminum, is expected to double the United States’ aluminum production and has been a major priority of President Donald Trump. Oklahoma officials, including the governor and the leaders of the House and Senate, have also thrown their support behind the project. 

Drummond said he’s concerned that the majority ownership of the project is foreign. The smelter will severely pollute Inola and northeastern Oklahoma communities, he said. 

The Inola smelting facility will receive alumina, which has already been extracted from ore in a separate refining process out-of-state, and convert it to aluminum.

While 40% of the Oklahoma Primary Aluminum smelter project is owned by the lawsuit’s defendant, Century Aluminum Company based in Chicago, the rest is owned by Emirates Global Aluminum, which is based in Dubai. 

“In this instance, 60% is owned by a Muslim monarchy 7,000 miles away, and I have concern about the enforcement of the water, air, and land rights of Oklahoma,” Drummond said at a press conference Tuesday in Inola. 

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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:

• Sorting fact from fiction in Oklahoma’s Republican governor debate (The Frontier)

• Growers say Oklahoma’s cannabis bonanza is going to pot (Oklahoma Watch)

• Markwayne Mullin faces sharp questions on Capitol Hill regarding DHS court order compliance (KOCO)

• Stitt signs final bills for 2026 session, uses pocket veto on 3 measures (KOSU)

• Double-fatal Highway 33 crash renews concerns over dangerous Kingfisher County intersection (KOCO)

• Upcoming budget for Tulsa Public Schools expects shortfall, forgets preschoolers (Tulsa Flyer)

• Oklahoma high court hears challenge to property tax initiative petition (Oklahoma Voice)

• Oklahoma Turnpike Authority seeks $1.5B in bonds for construction costs (Oklahoma Voice)

• Tillman, Shaw elected Chief and Assistant Chief; 7 Osages elected to 10th ON Congress (Osage News)

• ‘A prayer answered’: Tulsa Public Schools approves plan to bring school meals in-house (Tulsa Flyer)

• Police investigate homicide after teen shoots to stop attack on his mother (Tulsa World)*

• City of Norman approves sending 8 police officers to assist with FIFA World Cup in Kansas City (KOCO)

• Oklahoma kids can get free meals for summer (KFOR)

• Beyond basketball: The Oklahoma City Thunder and America’s Black immigrant contradiction (The Black Wall Street Times)

• Lindy Waters III, once a Thunder fan and player, ousts OKC with Spurs to make NBA Finals (The Oklahoman)*

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