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The State Department says it is taking the unusual step of releasing publicly the feedback it has received about a controversial pipeline project after an "unprecedented" response to its draft environmental report.The department said it had received more than 1.2 million comments on TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would run from oil sands in Alberta, Canada to refineries and ports along the U.S. Gulf Coast.The State Department posted about 100,000 comments late on Thursday and plans to release sets of a similar number each week, a process that will take about three months. The comments can be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=DOS-2013-0011"This marks the first time the Department has made all individual comments on a Presidential permit application available to the public," a State Department release said.The northern leg of the pipeline running from Alberta to Nebraska needs the approval of President Barack Obama because it crosses a national ...
Gov. Dave Heineman, (R-Neb.), on the economic impact of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and the Keystone Pipeline.
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Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky on the accusations that the administration used government powers to skew the election.
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Stossel looks at a charter school in Oakland that may be shut down and examines school choices and education unions
The Obama administration is unlikely to make a decision on the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL pipeline until late this year as it painstakingly weighs the project's ...
WSJ senior economics writer Steve Moore and Community and Economic Development educator for the University of Illinois Ronald Duncan weigh in on fracking coming to the state of Illinois.
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday gave the U.S. State Department's review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline a 'C' grade, but said ...
Phillips 66 (PSX) Chief Executive Greg Garland said Wednesday that lawmakers need to change course before increasing the amount of ethanol required to be mixed into ...
