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Marcellus Shale: Enormous Economic Opportunity for Penn...
In an op-ed from yesterday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert W. Watson, emeritus associate professor at Penn State University, t...
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Energy From Shale: Making Lives Better
Here’s an interesting video set from the folks at Energy In Depth, showing how natural gas development in Pennsylvania’s Marcell...
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A Counterproductive Tax Proposal
There's an old adage among economists that says, "If you tax something, you get less of it." Apparently Gov. Ed Rendell of Penns...
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Better than Winning the Lottery
Pennsylvanians are sitting on a buried treasure. It's called the Marcellus Shale formation, and a new study quantifies its poten...
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PA Governor Holds Energy Jobs Hostage
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell yesterday signed an executive order halting natural gas development on state lands. In a statem...
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Good News for Marcellus Shale
The Marcellus Shale, a 400 million-year-old rock formation that contains large amounts of natural gas available through a proces...
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New Gas Plays Hold Promise
Interest is rising in a relatively new natural gas discovery called the Utica Shale. It lies beneath the Marcellus Shale and str...
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Doing the Math: E=J
Don't know if Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley was a math major, but he's promoting an equation that certainly adds up: E = J. "...
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A Blessing Under Our Feet
That's how Pennsylvania's top environmental official responds when someone raises concerns about using hydraulic fracturing to p...
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PA Official: Hydraulic Fracturing Risks “Exaggerated”...
Pennsylvania's chief environmental regulator says he's seen no evidence that hydraulic fracturing contaminates underground water...
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Energy Today - August 16, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Pennsylvania becomes focus of interstate natural gas pipeline construction Devon Energy's Barn...
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Energy Today - August 29, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Samuelson: Say yes to Canadian oil sands Pennsylvania sees tax revenue surge from natural gas...
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Energy Today - August 19, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Latest review shows federal regulators still support Chukchi Sea drilling An economic pitch fo...
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Energy Today - July 28, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Chairman: House action on revenue sharing after August recess Retiring ConocoPhillips chief pr...
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Fracking = Pennsylvania Jobs
The "Rally to Fight Fracking" in Harrisburg, Pa., last week got the name wrong. "Rally to Fight Jobs" would have been a better...
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Oil and Natural Gas Jobs in Your State
As we've discussed on this blog, America's oil and natural gas industry supports more than 9 million jobs in every U.S. state--a...
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Natural Gas Brings Hope to Pennsylvania
With an unemployment rate of 10.4 percent, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, was the ideal setting for a job fair last week, featuri...
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Energy Today - August 2, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Shale gas impact on Pennsylvania jobs depends on who's counting (subscription required) Resear...
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Energy Today - August 2, 2011
Here's what we're reading today: Shale gas impact on Pennsylvania jobs depends on who's counting (subscription required) Resear...
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New Study: Marcellus Shale = 280K New Jobs, $6 Billion...
Natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale could generate nearly $6 billion in government revenue, 280,000 new jobs and more...
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Video: Water Management is in Everyone’s Interest
Check out this video by WPX Energy that describes the careful way energy companies are using water from Donegal Lake in south ce...
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Energy Today - March 7, 2011
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: DEP Announces Testing for Radioactivity of River Water Downstream of Marcel...
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Natural Gas: PA Prospers, NY Delays Development
The United States is blessed with an abundance of clean-burning natural gas. It provides fuel for industry, power for heating, a...
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Two States, Two Approaches to Shale Gas Development
As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in an editorial this week, Pennsylvania and New York are writing distinctly different cha...
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Fractures in Fracturing Study
Three weaknesses stand out in the new Duke University study of methane in water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania - research th...
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Energy From Shale: Re-Energizing the Steel Industry
During a tour of U.S. Steel’s tubular operations facility in Lorain, Ohio, earlier this week, Sen. Rob Portman was able to see,...
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Titusville or Bust
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the first successful oil well drilled in the United States. In 1859, Col. Edwin Drake d...
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Fracking Panel Finds (Some) Common Ground
Good discussion of hydraulic fracturing Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute, which hosted a panel that included Reaso...
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Building on the Shale Revolution
It's hard to overstate the impact of the shale energy revolution in this country, spurred by fracturing technology and innovatio...
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Fracking Safety: Already On It
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says the natural gas industry needs to be out front on hydraulic fracturing regulations. With all...
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Good News Friday: 0% Unemployment!
That's no typo: U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson says that in two of the Pennsylvania counties that make up his congressional distr...
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Fracking: Just the Facts
Finding the facts about hydraulic fracturing is a little like - well, striking oil or natural gas in a brand-new field. It takes...
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Study: Fracking Ban a ‘Needless Burden’ on N.Y. Economy...
A new academic study says New York's moratorium on shale gas extraction via hydraulic fracturing stands in the way of more than...
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Ohio Welcomes Energy-Related Growth
Glenn Enslen, Carroll County, Ohio’s economic development director, says the east-central part of the state has been the “forgot...
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Separating Fracking Fact From Fiction
Two good links for facts on hydraulic fracturing, the process for producing natural gas and oil from shale that is turning the e...
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Energy Today - April 15, 2011
NorthCentralPA.com: USA Today Analysis Shows Marcellus-Related Jobs in Pa. Continue to Grow As Nation's Workforce Hits 30-Year L...
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FOX: “Shale, the New American Gold Rush”...
As part of Fox News' "Job Hunt" series, today a segment aired about shale gas, calling it "the new American gold rush of the 21s...
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The Demand for Energy and Steel
There’s a good story going on in Lorain, Ohio, a steel town that has seen ups and downs. Thanks to the surge in production of en...
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EPA Chief: ‘Fracking’ Hasn’t Affected Water...
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson telling a House committee there's no evidence hydraulic fracturing has affected water supplies is...
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Ohio Summit: Talking Energy, Jobs
Editor’s note, 5/3: The event has concluded; see below for the archived videos. There’s not a better venue for a high-level di...
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Energy Today - April 26, 2011
iStockAnalyst: Gas Jobs Waiting for Trained Workforce: Project engineer, gas marketing administrator, landman, heavy equipment o...
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The Enormous Potential of PA’s Marcellus Shale and Hydr...
Pennsylvania appears to be having a knee-jerk reaction to a commonly-used process to produce natural gas from shale rock formati...
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LCFS: ‘Bait-and-Switch Energy Policy’
A recent Patriot-News op-ed authored by Michael Whatley of the Consumer Energy Alliance calls Pennsylvania's proposal to adopt a...
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Missed Opportunity at the Jobs Summit
API's President Jack Gerard and Devon's CEO and Chairman Larry Nichols called the White House Jobs Summit a "missed opportunity"...
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Energy Today - June 22, 2011
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Study: Marcellus Shale Helping Region's Economy: The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is weathering the rec...
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Energy Today - May 25, 2011
The New American: Unleashing Our Energy Resources: [Using] the new technology we have, which is primarily called hydraulic fract...
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Gallup Poll: Energy-Producing States = Best Job Creator...
As we've mentioned on this blog many times, energy development is a primary driver of job creation. Developing the nation's abun...
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Energy Today - June 3, 2011
Carpe Diem: Drill, Drill, Drill = Jobs, Jobs, Jobs in North Dakota; Both Oil Production and Jobs Reach Record Highs: Along with...
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The Value of a Job
Every job counts. Yet, in an economy where 14 million Americans are out of work, you'll still hear or read things disparaging ho...
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Massachusetts, Jobs and the Shale Energy Revolution
Interesting report in the Boston Globe about how a ripple of economic benefits from shale natural gas development is reaching a...
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Study: Marcellus Shale - Enormous Economic, Energy Pote...
A new Penn State study says the development of clean-burning natural gas in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation could creat...
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Readying for Irene
After a rare earthquake on Tuesday, the nation's capital is bracing for Hurricane Irene, which was expected to plow through the...
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It’s About Energy
During the first Clinton presidential campaign, adviser James Carville reportedly placed a placard on the wall that said, "The e...
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Natural Gas = Game Changer
When energy consultant Daniel Yergin calls unconventional natural gas a "game changer," people listen. And in today's Wall Stree...
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FracFocus Turns One!
A year ago this week the FracFocus.org online chemical disclosure registry was created, and what a year it has been: 130 compani...
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Op-ed: Oil and Natural Gas Companies Can Provide Jobs B...
The administration recently held a Jobs Summit to help determine the best way to put Americans back to work as quickly as possib...
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Natural Gas: The 70 Percent
The outstanding statistic in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s preview of its 2012 Annual Energy Outlook is the forec...
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New Study: Oil and Natural Gas Industry Vital to the Ec...
A new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study released today found that the U.S. oil and natural gas industry supports more than 9 mi...
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Energy Today - June 21, 2011
The Billings Gazette: Pipeline would Boost Eastern Montana Economy: Eastern Montana's economy will receive a much-needed boost f...
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Energy Today - July 6, 2011
Forbes: Report Shows Okla.'s Economy Continues to Expand: Fueled in large part by the booming oil and natural gas industry, Okla...
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Krugmanland Revisited: Solar vs. Natural Gas
The New York Times' Paul Krugman likes solar energy. Lots of folks do. Here's a post from The Times' Green blog about Chevron's...
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Mansfield, PA and the Marcellus Shale
The village of Mansfield in Tioga County, Penn., describes itself as a "quaint, Victorian town lined with cozy cafes, antique sh...
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Energy Tomorrow Radio: Episode 113 - Recent Study Shows...
In today's episode, I interview Dr. Tim Considine of the University of Wyoming about his recent study that quantifies the econom...
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Strike Four for the New York Times on Shale Gas
The New York Times finds the reality of domestic development of natural gas scary, you know with the job creation and energy sec...
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Did You Know? Fracking Explained
Did you know that hydraulic fracturing has been used in about one million oil and natural gas wells in the United States? This t...
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Energy Today - June 13, 2011
The Wall Street Journal: America Needs the Shale Revolution: The U.S. is on the verge of an industrial renaissance if--and it's...
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Natural Gas’ “Shale Gale”
About 30 years ago, Kuwait's economic advisor in Washington predicted the United States would become dependent on the Middle Eas...
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New Rules for Life’s Game
Three more Energy Citizens rallies were held on Thursday, Sept. 3. About 200 people attended the rally in Richmond, Virginia; 30...
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The Empire State’s Divide
The clash between rural New York state mineral rights owners and opponents of natural gas development comes through in a new sho...
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Energy Today - May 20, 2011
MSNBC: Pa. Water Utility Doesn't Find Drilling Pollution: Several tests of western Pennsylvania river water prompted by fears of...
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The Keys to Retirement Security
What do you think of when you think of oil and natural gas? Energy, of course - energy for America today and tomorrow. But there...
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The New York Times on The New York Times
Arthur Brisbane, The New York Times' public editor, is critical of the newspaper's recent coverage of the economic boom associat...
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Ohio’s Jobless to Benefit from Energy Development
U.S. Steel Corp. is offering tangible proof that energy development can create jobs. This week the corporation announced it's co...
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Poll: Voters Reject New Taxes on Oil, Natural Gas
Voters in ten states oppose higher taxes on America's oil and natural gas industry by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a new poll r...
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New Hydraulic Fracturing Materials Posted
If you saw the 60 Minutes story on hydraulic fracturing last night, you might be looking for information about this tried-and-tr...
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Measuring the Shale Gas Revolution
New quantification of the national impact of the shale natural gas revolution going on in the United States, from IHS Global Ins...
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American Drillers Rescued Chilean Miners
American ingenuity played a huge role in the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile. While the whole world watched, the miners were pu...
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Energy Today - June 17, 2011
New York Times: Americans Support Offshore Drilling, but Washington Wavers: The last year and a half has brought a rapid sequenc...
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ETR 130 - The Oil and Natural Gas Industry’s Contributi...
A new report conducted on behalf of API by Robert Shapiro of Sonecon, LLC, examines the financial impact of investments in oil a...
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Good News for Pensions
"Public pensions rely on two major sources for funding -- employee and employer contributions and investment returns. Although t...
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Energy Today - January 27, 2011
Tax Policy Blog: We Won't Win the Future By Attacking Oil Companies: In last night's State of the Union address, President Obama...
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Higher Ozone Standards Threaten Jobs
The numbers are mind-boggling. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to tighten ozone standards could result in t...
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Time to Get Back to Work in the Gulf
Government and industry experts, media and individuals across the country are talking about the negative consequences of the adm...
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Embracing All Forms of Energy
Before anyone--including each U.S. lawmaker--engages in a meaningful discussion about energy policy, it's important to understan...
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Gov. Paterson Should Veto the Fracking Moratorium
The New York State Assembly passed a measure placing a six-month moratorium on hydraulic fracturing late yesterday. The state Se...
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Mischaracterizing the Fracking Debate
With all due respect to Tulsa World columnist Mike Jones - who should know better being from oil and natural gas country - his S...
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Where the Jobs Are
Nearly 190,000 new jobs and billions in economic growth could result in 2013 if development of offshore oil and natural gas in t...
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An HF Revolution, Too
North Dakota set a new record for oil production in October with an output of 488,000 barrels per day. On the Carpe Diem blog, M...
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Energy Today - June 20, 2011
Northwest Indiana Times: Why Process Oil Sands?: The Energy Resources Conservation Board of Alberta, Canada, an independent gove...
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Energy Today - April 12, 2011
Energy in Depth: Five things to know about the Cornell Shale Study: Call it an annual rite of spring for the community of Ithaca...
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Energy Today - June 8, 2011
WSJ: Washington Wire: Chamber's Donahue to Obama: Expand Oil Drilling: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue is putt...
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Policies For An Energy Future
News this week of increased domestic oil and natural gas production is welcome indeed – because increased production means jobs,...
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The Jobs Pivot
It's good the administration seems to be refocusing on job creation - what with the current economic malaise yielding another bl...
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Shale Gas, Geo-Politics and Energy Security
The Wall Street Journal's Holman W. Jenkins Jr. has an interesting column that contemplates the effect of European shale gas on...
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Good News Friday: New Millionaires, Plant Plans, Jobs a...
Happy Friday, and here are some of the positive ways the oil and natural gas industry is affecting life across the country: Almo...
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Antidote to Energy Inertia
Good editorial in The Oklahoman newspaper, lamenting America's lack of energy vision - even as a number of experts say the world...
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Utah Pushing for Energy Development
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a law that would allow his state to file eminent domain proceedings against the federal govern...
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Students of the (Shale Gas) Revolution
In the Wall Street Journal, Lucian Pugliaresi asks [subscription required] a good question about the National Petroleum Council'...
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The President’s Energy Tax Hikes: Expensing of Intang...
Yesterday, we discussed the president’s 2013 budget proposal to repeal the Section 199 manufacturer’s deduction for oil and natu...
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Energy Today - March 29, 2011
Fuel Fix: Stakes For Tuesday's Senate EPA Vote Run As High As 1.4 Million Jobs: How can Obama tout exploration off the coast of...
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