Was Vice President Joe Biden showing his hand — and thus the administration’s — on the Keystone Pipeline? A Sierra Club volunteer in South Carolina says Biden appeared to indicate his opposition to TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL in a brief conversation with her...
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Biden Showing White House’s Hand on Keystone?
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President Barack Obama, left, greets Penny Pritzker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Pritzker Realty Group LLC and Obama's nominee as secretary of commerce, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2013.
Pritzker’s Wealth in Perspective
Is Penny Pritzker the wealthiest person ever to be nominated to the president’s Cabinet? No. The Chicago businesswoman, philanthropist and political fundraiser has a personal net worth estimated at more than $1.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s...
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Oil from the BP spill floats in the Gulf of Mexico near Orange Beach, Alabama.
BP’s Revenue Dwarfs Contracts and Criminal Settlement
Washington is buzzing about BP Plc’s recent suspension from winning new U.S. government contracts. A few figures to provide some perspective on the oil company, which agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges after the worst oil spill in U.S....
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Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, Louisiana.
BP’s Case for `Responsibility’ at EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency has slapped BP Plc with a temporary ban on new government contracts, telling the world the company showed a “lack of business integrity” after the nation’s largest oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, BP...
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Pipes carry recovered bitumen from oil sands, near Conklin, Alberta, Canada.
Rice’s Oil Holdings Flagged — Keystone Pipeline Rests at State
Written with Jim Efstathiou Jr. If the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, ascends to secretary of state — no sure thing given the pre-emptive Republican strikes against her — she may have to sideline herself from the...
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Semi-subermisible oil rigs and jackup shallow-water drilling units in the Gulf of Mexico.
Adelson Finds Another Avenue for Anti-Obama Campaign Spending
Casino executive Sheldon Adelson, a $5 million contributor to Restore Our Future, the super-political action committee backing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and a $30,800 donor to the Republican National Committee, which also supports Romney, has found another table to...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens as President Barack Obama answers a question during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University on Oct. 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York.
Obama: `Not True’ — Romney: `It’s Absolutely True’
“This has not been Mr. Oil, or Mr. Coal or Mr. Gas,” Republican Mitt Romney said of President Barack Obama. The Republican nominee for president, at the second of three debates with Obama, promised a policy of encouraging “more drilling,...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: 81
That’s the number of electoral votes in the six states where President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign began airing a television commercial this week that touts his record on energy policy and links likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney to “Big Oil.”...
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