Gordon Sondland
Laura Cooper
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U.S. proposes rules to limit methane gas ‘flaring’ at drilling sites
The Obama administration on Friday proposed new rules to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natural gas on public land.
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What’s the impact of Obama’s Keystone pipeline decision?
What do lawmakers think of President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline? Judy Woodruff gets thoughts on the economic, environmental and political fallout from Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.
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Obama: Keystone XL wouldn’t serve national interest
After years of consideration, President Obama formally rejected TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline application, which would have permitted oil from Canada's tar sands to flow to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Though the company and many Republican lawmakers argued it would benefit…
Like so many small towns on the Great Plains, Alexander, North Dakota, had been shrinking as more and more young people moved away. But for the first time in 28 years, Alexander has a football team, thanks largely to an…
More than a million barrels of oil travel the country by rail each day. In response to deadly derailments, the Obama administration proposed tougher safety rules for trains carrying oil, sometimes called “pipelines on wheels.” Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx…
The coast of Louisiana is crumbling into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate, and the regional Flood Protection Authority says the oil and gas industry is partly to blame. A big political fight has broken out in the…
As tensions mount over the prospect of further Russian interference in eastern Ukraine, "the White House is preparing a new list of targets to incur sanctions," the New York Times reported Monday. Among them is Igor Sechin, a longtime…
Hari Sreenivasan speaks with maritime risk consultant Michael Frodl about the recent capture of two Americans off of the coast of Nigeria by armed pirates, and what economic and political implications a rescue could entail.
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