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Hints of Political Change on Horizon in Algeria
the home of Algeria's sensitive oil and gas industry, and has mobilized young people to demonstrate for jobs in the oil industry in several southern cities. It also has ambitions to take its cause nationwide. In a country that is so outwardly rich
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Syria Ex-Minister Leads Rebuilding Plan
told The Associated Press that more than two years of fighting have cost Syria at least $60 billion and caused the vital oil industry to crumble. A quarter of all homes have been destroyed or severely damaged, and much of the medical system is in ruins. Now
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A Look at EU Investigation of Oil Price Fixing
had raided the offices of a number of oil industry companies for possible price-fixing offices in London were raided. The three oil companies are all major producers in the international information is voluntarily provided by oil companies , traders, large consumers like airlines
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Oil Falls Below $93 on Europe, US Economic News
investigation into possible price-fixing in oil markets. Three oil companies , Britain's BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Norway's Statoil which did not name the targets of its investigation, said oil companies "may have colluded in reporting distorted prices." "Even
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EU Antitrust Officials Investigate BP, Statoil
authorities have launched investigations into at least two oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. Britain's BP and Norway's statement Tuesday that it had requested raids on several oil companies on concerns that they "may have colluded in reporting distorted
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AP IMPACT: Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths
administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits power in his first term. But like the oil industry under President George W. Bush, lobbyists contrast, there are easy fixes for oil companies and companies operating power lines
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Budget Surpluses Spur Tension in Some GOP States
downturn of recent years. "Everybody wants that money," said North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, where an oil industry boom has fueled one of the largest per capita budget surpluses in the nation. Only a few states still face budget difficulties
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Oil Industry : BLM Prevents Job Creation in Calif.
Oil industry associations say federal land managers are blocking new energy development by postponing all oil and gas lease auctions in California
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Apple, Netflix Make Case for Staying PrivateApple is the most profitable technology company in the world, and trails only two banks in China and a handful of energy or oil companies on Fortune's Global 500 list of most profitable companies. With a whopping net profit margin of nearly 24 percent and
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President Obama's Weirdest New Taxes
past four years: taxing higher incomes by capping itemized tax deductions, rolling back domestic-production credits for oil companies , instituting the "Buffett Rule" of a 30 percent minimum tax rate for people making over $1 million in a year, and taxing
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The Note: Next Week's Senate Scramble
past four years: taxing higher incomes by capping itemized tax deductions, rolling back domestic-production credits for oil companies , instituting the "Buffett Rule" of a 30 percent minimum tax rate for people making over $1 million in a year, and taxing
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New Bounce for 401(k) Funds
the Obama administration that calls for less sulfur in gasoline and stricter rules to reduce soot and other particles. An oil industry study says the proposed rule could raise gas prices by up to 9 cents a gallon. The EPA disputes that claim, arguing the
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EPA Proposal for New Gas Standards Prompts Backlashgasoline, causing a backlash by the oil industry , which claims the change will cost emissions by 80 percent. The American oil industry argues that the Obama administration administrator, told ABC News that the oil industry has not analyzed the EPA's newest
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Oil Versus Environment in the Yasuni Amazontravel with Entel in his quest to see the reality in Yasuní and to meet the indigenous peoples who have been affected by oil companies invading the land. The viewer is introduced to two groups: the Kichwas, who have been protected and created a system of
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Hugo Chavez Mourned by Sea of Venezuelans Dressed in Redfields and replace depleted ones. Critics of Chavez accuse him of ruining the economy after he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry . But Monaldi says that Chavez will always be connected with this bonanza. "People did not like (all of Chavez') positions
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Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President, Dead at 58Venezuelan people could pin their frustrations, firing jabs at traditional spheres of power and influence, including the oil companies , the Catholic Church and the United States. In a public address he once said of oil executives that they live in "luxury
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How Venezuela Keeps Low Income Americans Warmadvocates constantly for greater fuel assistance from the U.S. government and continues to ask for donations from other oil companies , nationally and abroad, to no avail. When asked about the Chavez administration's politics, O'Connor said, "It's
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Keystone XL Pipeline Does Little Environmental Harm, US Finds
which is one of the dirtiest to produce and transport. The oil industry , some members of Congress, and the nation's major labor said Marty Durbin of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry lobby. "The latest impact statement from the State Department
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8 State of the Union Promises Obama Has Madet a time of record deficits, we will not continue tax cuts for oil companies , for investment fund managers, and for those making over $250 domestic-production credits or other corporate tax incentives that help oil companies .
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'This Week' Transcript: Two Powerhouse Roundtablesthe choices that people are making here are an across-the-board cut, which could be 10,000 teachers, or asking oil companies to pay their fair share. That's what... (CROSSTALK) WALLACE: ... are not the victims -- the victims of the sequester
