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Shell Oil Receives EPA Air Permit for Exploratory Drilling
KTUU.comShell Oil’s exploratory drilling plans in the Beaufort Sea next summer received a major boost Friday, as the Environmental Protection Agency said it issued a final air permit to the company. According to an EPA statement, the permit allows 120 days...Tags: Environmental Politics, Politics, Petroleum Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Environmental Pollution
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Judge lets Kansas to join dispute over tribal land
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal magistrate judge has allowed Kansas to join the fight over the Wyandotte Nation's claim to Park City land where the tribe wants to build a casino. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse ruled on Thursday that the state has a...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
![Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67846946-04090541.jpg "Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower\" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket.")
Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket.
Clustered nearby are hangar-sized assembly buildings, looming berms of sand...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Executive Branch, U.S. Department of Defense
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Imperial County denied lawsuit with feds over QSA
Staff WriterImperial County’s case against the federal government over transferring water to the coast won’t be heard in the United States District Court. A federal court judge ruled late last week that the county and its Air Pollution Control District...Tags: Judges, Water Supply, Trials, Environmental Politics, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Retired federal judge to represent Westlands Water District
GreenspaceFormer U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger has agreed to represent an influential irrigation district that frequented his courtroom.... -
Government can spur a slumping economy by rebuilding the nation's infrastructure
America is at its best when our guiding principles of free enterprise and giving people a helping hand work together. The free enterprise system created our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise also eliminated 3 million...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Employment Opportunities
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Has Obama stifled oil production?
In my Sunday column, I noted that U.S. oil production and drilling have risen under President Obama. But some people, including some readers, say that's misleading because, they claim, the increase has occurred on private lands, while production has...Tags: Barack Obama, Petroleum Industry, Land Resources, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources
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Native American tribe worries pipeline will disturb graves
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As President Barack Obama pushes to fast-track an oil pipeline from Oklahoma south to the Gulf Coast, an American Indian tribe that calls the oil hub home worries the route may disrupt sacred sites holding the unmarked graves of...Tags: Human Interest, Barack Obama, Politics, Arts and Culture, Elections
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Imperial County to appeal federal court QSA ruling
Staff WriterJust a couple of weeks after Imperial County’s case was dismissed against the federal government, the local agency has announced it plans to continue the fight. The county and its air district will appeal the April 6 decision to dismiss its lawsuit...Tags: Interior Policy, Water Supply, Facebook, Environmental Politics, Politics
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Offshore oil exploration plan draws fire
The Obama administration's latest move to permit testing for oil and gas off Maryland and other Atlantic coast states is drawing flak from both environmentalists and the oil industry.
Speaking at a lightly attended public hearing Wednesday afternoon in...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Science, Science and Technology, Calvert County, Environmental Issues
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Input Sought On Cook Inlet Oil And Gas Leases
The U.S. Interior Department is seeking input on a possible oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet. In a Saturday news release, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the request for comments is a key step in the planning process for responsible oil and...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Ken Salazar, Energy Resources, Natural Resources
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Government can't keep up with Freedom of Information Act requests
![<span class="s1">WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration couldn’t keep pace with the increasing number of people asking for copies of government documents, emails, photographs and more under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of the latest federal data by The Associated Press.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/301269600-12110834.png "<span class="s1\">WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration couldn’t keep pace with the increasing number of people asking for copies of government documents, emails, photographs and more under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of the latest federal data by The Associated Press.</span>")
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration couldn’t keep pace with the increasing number of people asking for copies of government documents, emails, photographs and more under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis...Tags: Judges, Agricultural Research and Technology, NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, Science and Technology
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