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Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers

By Aaron Mehta

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

Excerpts from this story referencing "Strategic Petroleum Reserve":

"… oil or gas, which the government could resell or stash away in the federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But in 2008 the Interior Department’s inspector general documented  …"

Republicans move forward against coal ash regulation

By Chris Hamby

Amid health risks, worries about a threat to jobs and the economy

Report: Generators could fail at U.S. nuclear plants

Report: Generators could fail at U.S. nuclear plants
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The politics of energy: Oil and gas

By Kevin Bogardus

WASHINGTON, December 15, 2003 — The sweeping energy bill now pending in Congress offers a geyser of new tax breaks and other government good

Excerpts from this story referencing "Republican Party":

"… a Bracewell & Patterson partner; when he took over the top job at the Republican Party, he declared that he’d continue playing on the firm’s government relat …"

FactWatch: Fannie and Freddie were followers, not leaders, in mortgage frenzy

By Michael Hudson

Republicans insist that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "were the main cause of the nation's current financial turmoil” but a look at the data sh

As Fannie, Freddie flounder, six top execs receive handsome rewards

By John Solomon and Julie Vorman

Obama administration approves $34 million in compensation without market analysis of executive pay
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Military transformation in Korea, Japan and Guam will cost tens of billions

By Laurel Adams

GAO: Multibillion-dollar estimate for transforming military in Asia may be much higher

IMPACT: Issa threatens ATF with contempt for withholding documents in gun probe

By David Heath

Issa threatens ATF with contempt for not producing documents

FBI still struggles to recreate itself as intelligence-driven agency

By Laurel Adams

FBI still struggles to recreate itself as intelligence-driven agency

The relentless pursuit of Osama bin Laden changed over 10 years

By John Solomon

ANALYSIS: Pursuit changed over 10 years

Excerpts from this story referencing "Leon Panetta":

"… nts did little to deter the evolving strategy. Obama told new CIA director Leon Panetta to make getting bin Laden a top priority. Efforts to rely on Pakistani int …"

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