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Environmentalist questions safety of hydraulic fracturing, cost of natural gas
A cheaper alternative to oil, natural gas is often considered a bridge fuel in the Obama administration’s goal to reduce carbon emissions, but anti-drilling activist Adrian Kuzminski believes the...
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Deepwater Horizon liability act wins Senate committee approval
The bill would amend the Death on the High Seas Act and the Jones Act, both of 1920, and the Shipowners Liability Act of 1851 to allow families of those killed during the explosion to sue for loss of...
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Jamie Leigh Jones loses rape case against former Halliburton subsidiary KBR
Jurors in a federal courtroom on Friday rejected a former Conroe woman’s claims that she was drugged and raped by several Kellogg Brown & Root firefighters while working for the company in Iraq in...
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Lisa Falkenberg: Ted Poe’s silence after rejection of Jamie Leigh Jones’ KBR...
Ted Poe, the outspoken Republican congressman, former judge and prosecutor known as one of the most prolific orators on the U.S. House floor, has finally found a subject about which he'd rather remain...
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Dick Cheney says he didn’t manipulate VP selection process to become Bush’s...
George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney to direct his vice presidential search process in 2000 but ended up rejecting Cheney's recommendations and picking Cheney instead. It was not his plan, the former vice...
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Halliburton wins praise from open-government groups for commitment to...
The Houston-based multinational corporation, which has been blasted for a decade by liberals and good government groups for its close ties to the White House and the Pentagon, is now being held up as a...
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