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"U.S. Court Approves Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Plan"

"In a big win for oil companies, a federal appeals court said it will allow the U.S. Interior Department to move forward with oil and natural gas leasing plans for the Gulf of Mexico that were drawn up by the Bush administration."
Source: Reuters, 07/30/2009

"Call to Curb Speculators in Energy"

"The country's top regulator of commodity markets said Tuesday that the government should 'seriously consider' strict limits on the trades of purely financial investors in the futures markets for oil, natural gas and other energy products."
Source: NYTimes, 07/29/2009

"Fight Brewing Over Dormant Wells"

"More than 20,000 old oil and gas wells across [Alberta] have been sitting abandoned or inactive for more than a decade without being cleaned up, worrying landowners and environmentalists who say the sites unnecessarily eat up and possibly contaminate valuable farm land."
Source: Calgary Herald, 07/28/2009

"On Wood, Burning Questions"

Wood has been hailed as a renewable fuel and is being used in New England power plants. But it is not undergoing some serious scrutiny of its environmental consequences.
Source: Boston Globe, 07/27/2009

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