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Expert: Summer gas costs likely lower than 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- A Purdue University economist says he expects this summer's gasoline prices to be lower than last year. Energy economics specialist Wally Tyner projects that prices in the Midwest will be between $3.50 and $3.90 a gallon,...Tags: Petroleum Industry
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Alaska governor launches bid to measure oil in Arctic refuge
For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America's Arctic frontier, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea contains stunning populations of caribou, grizzly, musk oxen and other wildlife...
Tags: Wildlife, Conservation, Sean Parnell, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Congress
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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Auto Trends, Petroleum Industry, Valero LP, Environmental Pollution
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Obama tries to steer attention back to jobs
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama's choice of venue for his remarks — a Baltimore...
Tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Department of Justice, Charleston, Barack Obama
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Tesoro gets state and federal clearance to buy BP's Arco assets
State and federal authorities cleared the way Friday for Tesoro Corp. to buy BP's Carson refinery, the Arco brand and other assets, and the Texas oil giant agreed to California restrictions on prices, jobs and retrofits to protect the environment. The...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Kamala D. Harris, Global Warming, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Keystone XL looms as Obama wants to cut delays on big projects
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday he wanted to put more Americans back to work by slashing the amount of time it takes to grant federal approval for big job-creating projects. But Obama’s choice of venue for his remarks of a...
Tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, Mitch McConnell, Charleston, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Small Business
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Syrian ex-minister leads team planning for reconstruction of war-ravaged country
Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight. A joint U.S.-Russian push to bring...Tags: Religion and Belief, Renovation, John Kerry, Bashar Assad, Politics
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Wall Street closes lower after a muddled day of trading; Wal-Mart slides on weak sales
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Signs of a slowing economy combined with comments from a Federal Reserve official helped pull the stock market down Thursday. There was plenty of discouraging news. Applications for unemployment benefits rose last week and...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Tesla Motors, Inc., Unemployment, S&P 500, Walmart
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Lawmakers test Brown's no-tax resolve with calls to hike levies
SACRAMENTO — Releasing his latest budget plan this week, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated his assurance that the tax hikes voters agreed to last fall were enough, that he won't ask them to dig deeper into their pockets any time soon. "We just got a...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Food Industry, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Bob Huff
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New Group Launches Support Campaign for Oil Tax Reform
Channel 2 NewsA new group is launching a campaign against the petition to repeal Senate Bill 21, which passed with the idea that it would increase oil production in Alaska. We Are Alaska is an independent expenditure group from the Alaska Support Industry Alliance.... -
Lawmakers retreat from high-profile energy legislation
After a 2012 focused on major long-term energy issues, the Legislature retreated a bit from high profile energy legislation this year. Instead, attention was more narrowly focused on altering existing laws regarding the construction of nuclear power...Tags: Natural Gas, Water Supply, Sales, Energy Resources, Cape Coral (Lee, Florida)
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Plans to increase exports of liquefied natural gas could accelerate fracking boom, critics say
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Energy, Energy Resources, Washington, DC
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