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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: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Explosions, Hospitals and Clinics, Mexico, BP Plc
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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: Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Politics, Human Interest, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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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: Indiana, Nature, Gardens and Parks, Weather Statistics, Lakes and Ponds
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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: Nevada, Baton Rouge, Ecosystems, Conservation, Arizona
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New hydraulic fracturing rules proposed
Hydraulic fracturing, the process that involves shooting millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to crack shale formations and unlock oil and gas, would become more difficult under new rules proposed by the Interior Department. As...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Natural Resources Defense Council, Water Supply, Energy Resources, Land Resources
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Funding for tribes to be topic at Native American foster care summit in Rapid City
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — How tribes can secure direct funding for foster care will be one of the topics covered during the last day of a summit focusing on Indian child foster care in South Dakota. The three-day summit finishes Friday in Rapid City....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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Interior issues new drilling rule on public land
WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The new "fracking" rule replaces a...
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Interior Department offers new rules for 'fracking'
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry. Industry...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Natural Resources Defense Council, Water Supply, Energy Resources, Land Resources
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Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment
SCHOOL-NATIVE SONG Tribal leader wants boycott of South Dakota city (Information in the following story is from: Argus Leader, http://www.argusleader.com) CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. (AP) — The chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is calling for an...Tags: Xcel Energy Incorporated, Cocoa Beach, Medicaid, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Interior Department Releases Draft Rules on 'Fracking'
Channel 2 NewsInterior Secretary Sally Jewell announced new draft rules governing hydraulic fracturing during oil drilling on federal and Indian lands Thursday, calling them part of a pro-energy Obama administration policy. The new rules, establishing safety...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Entertainment, Politics, Energy Resources, Radio
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New fracking rules attempt to placate opposing camps
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too...Tags: Petroleum Industry, John Hoeven, Energy Resources, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Litigation and Regulation
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Native Americans trade tales of displaced children
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — More than a dozen Native American families described through tears children being taken from them by South Dakota social workers. The stories were delivered Wednesday during the first day of the Great Plains Indian Child...Tags: Entertainment, Radio, NPR, U.S. Department of Justice
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