Fact Watch: Playing politics with gasoline prices; both parties make questionable claims

By FactCheck.Org

Democrats and Republicans both demagogue the gasoline price issue

Excerpts from this story referencing "petroleum products":

"… are what the company earns from refining crude oil into gasoline and other petroleum products and then selling it. But that ignores "upstream earnings," which is how mu …"

Diesel dangers: Mining companies get first look at government cancer study

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published t

FACT CHECK: Gingrich's predictions of rising gas prices not necessarily true

By FactCheck.Org

Former House Speaker's claims on rising cost of gasoline based on overly-stringent study
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Long-delayed diesel study published

By Jim Morris

Landmark study of miners shows elevated risk of cancer from engine exhaust

Superfund program loses funding, momentum

By The Center for Public Integrity

Since 2000, the EPA has engaged in two-thirds fewer clean-ups near hazardous waste sites

Excerpts from this story referencing "petroleum products":

"… program in 1980, lawmakers established a trust fund supported by a tax on petroleum products and chemicals, and enabled EPA to push responsible parties to reimburse th …"

FACT CHECK: Santorum-boosting PAC slams Romney, Obama

By FactCheck.Org

Red, White and Blue PAC launches misleading TV ads in Illinois and Louisiana attacking Romney and Obama on debt, taxes and oil

Excerpts from this story referencing "petroleum products":

"… 6.5 billion less than the ad claims. That does not, however, include other petroleum products, such as jet fuel, kerosene and fuel oil.And the staggering $332 billion s …"

"… alking about. But the U.S. imports about half of its net oil and petroleum products from the Western Hemisphere — mostly from Canada, which provides the U.S …"