Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers

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Whistleblowers help recover half-billion in energy revenues - but billions more owed taxpayers on public lands use

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Re-named offshore energy agency urged to publish production data

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Coal is back, even as the Obama administration pushes green energy

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Improving economy requires electricity, so Big Coal is back

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The ‘clean coal’ lobbying blitz

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Fact Check: Permitting some fudging on oil stats

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Obama cabinet officials visit swing districts in final weeks before Nov. 2 election

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Earlier this month in Orlando, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled a $1.56 million grant to install energy-effici

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Housing secretary to release funds to struggling nonprofits

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Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show

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Lax oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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Mismanagement and cronyism at HUD

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Haphazard firefighting might have sunk BP oil rig

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The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investiga

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Science panel investigates firefighting preceding BP oil spill

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Treasury Dept. subpoenas TransOcean about Myanmar operations

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Training exercises showed gaps in government preparedness before BP oil spill

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Over the last eight years, the U.S. government has conducted four major drills to prepare for a massive oil spill, the results of which fore

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After oil spill cleanup, mystery surrounds oil remaining in Gulf

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Internal e-mails suggest doctoring of oil spill information by White House

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Coast Guard to revise self-assessment on oil spills

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Volunteer vessels at BP rig were “floating militia,” need more coordination

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Chamber seeks cash from insurers, financial firms for new effort

By Peter H. Stone

Even as it plowed tens of millions of dollars into ads this year to help mostly Republicans notch Congressional victories, the U.S. Chamber

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U.S. Chamber boosts election budget to $75 million

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Chamber spends early, often on GOP congressional candidates

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Eric Holder and the Chamber of Commerce

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Energy Department has denied info requests for months

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October 27, 2000 — Since 1999, The Public i has attempted to obtain information about the bidding process in the sale of the Elk Hills oil r

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SEC loses short-lived FOIA exemption in financial reform law

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FOIA performance is getting worse

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A peek inside State Department's FOIA procedures

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Government transparency under Obama misses the mark

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Taxpayers foot bill for oil and gas well cleanup on federal land

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Oil and gas companies producing on federal land are required to pay a bond to the Bureau of Land Management, which serves as an incentive fo

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Lawsuit settlement will allow consolidation of Indian lands

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Divided Indian land presents problems for both Native Americans and the federal government—land plots become so tiny that productivity is li

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Scandal, incompetence at Minerals Management Service

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