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Utah Tar Sands Project Comes Under Attack

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.17.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State regulators testified Wednesday that the first U.S. commercial oil sands operation won't pollute groundwater because the ...

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Public Meetings Begin For Drilling On Public Lands

AP | Posted 05.12.2012

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SILT, Colo. (AP) — The federal government held the first of several public meetings on plans for oil shale development on public lands that would ke...

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Rising Green Movement Launches Counter-Attack Against Shale Oil Boom

Reuters | Posted 02.26.2012

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* Green groups seen slowing development * Success in fighting pipeline energizes efforts * Shale oil and gas industry on...

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Obama Echoes The American Petroleum Institute Mantra

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.31.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

The transfer of billions upon billions of dollars from American and world consumers to oil interests both domestic and foreign continues on and will continue in spite of the programs enunciated by the president.

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Why We Can't Have Another One Hundred Years of Fossil-Digging in North America

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Subhankar Banerjee

We've burned coal-and-oil for more than hundred years that has resulted in the human-made climate change we're dealing with right now. We cannot allow one more hundred years of the same.

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Salazar Likely To Kill Bush Offshore Drilling Plan, Slow Drilling In Rockies

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday the expansion of offshore oil drilling should be worked out with Congress as part of a ...

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Shale Oil's Bailout: Did Dangerous Drilling Get Federal Funds?

Treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unbelievably, according to the LA Times, the oil shale extraction industry was included in the Federal $700-billion bailout package. Would than includ...

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