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2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Gulf of Mexico, BP Plc, Energy Resources
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Native American tribe worries pipeline will disturb graves
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As President Barack Obama pushes to fast-track an oil pipeline from Oklahoma south to the Gulf Coast, an American Indian tribe that calls the oil hub home worries the route may disrupt sacred sites holding the unmarked graves of...Tags: Republican Party, Arts and Culture, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Human Interest, Elections
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Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Global Change, Michigan, Gardens and Parks, Weather Statistics
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Don't Go West, Young Man
"Go West, Young Man..." When Horace Greeley printed those words he was talking about what awaited farmers and their families in the fertile valleys of parts of the west. Thousands of families took up that mantra, accepted the challenges of actually...Tags: Global Change, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas
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