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Bloomberg • 13th June 2013

Sleeping-Giant Labor Issue of Unpaid Interns Awakened: Jobs

Like many students trying to get a leg up, Ladan Nowrasteh, 26, worked a string of unpaid internships
while in undergraduate and graduate school. She often had to work part-time jobs simultaneously to pay for things like food and rent.

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Bloomberg • 31st May 2013

Beetle-Bedeviled Keystone Pipeline Needs Dead Rats to Let It Be

Building the $5.3 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline across the middle of the U.S. will require thousands of workers and millions of pounds of steel. It will also require a lot of smelly dead rats.

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Bloomberg • 1st December 2010

Republicans Fight to Head Panel on Energy, Commerce

Republican Representative Fred Upton easily won reelection but now faces a tough intraparty fight to head a committee with power over issues from health care to energy.

Bloomberg • 13th February 2013

Closed Campgrounds Not Scare Tactic in No-Leeway Budget Law

In warning of the consequences of $1.2 trillion in budget
cuts over the next decade, President Barack Obama and his administration are choosing examples likely to resonate with voters.

Bloomberg • 28th August 2013

Keystone Seen as No Local Job Starter Along Prairie Route

A journey through the small towns where the pipeline would travel shows a level of indifference over Keystone XL that contrasts to the vehemence of the arguments in Washington.

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Bloomberg • 18th February 2015

Type of Oil Car in West Virginia Fire May Be Rolling for Years

Oil tank cars like those that ruptured in a train derailment in rural West Virginia on Monday, sending a massive fireball into the sky and forcing evacuation of nearby
homes, could be rolling through U.S. cities for years to come.

Bloomberg • 17th November 2014

Keystone Is 'Kind of Old News' for Oil Industry

Six years after Keystone XL was proposed, nearly every aspect of the debate has changed.

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Bloomberg • 12th November 2012

Americans Favor Regulations More Than Romney Bargained On

Mitt Romney urged voters to reject President Barack Obama and his “job-killing”regulations. Obama’s victory last week shows many Americans aren’t as reflexively anti-Washington as Romney expected.

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Bloomberg • 27th May 2015

Long Slog to Build Power Lines May Imperil Obama’s Carbon Cuts

A quest to build a power line through the Midwest shows the challenge facing the Obama administration’s plan to use renewable energy to cut carbon emissions: getting the electricity to where it's needed most.

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Bloomberg • 4th January 2012

Wind-Power Lobby Counts on Iowa Farmer to Help Save Tax Break

An Iowa farmer has become the face of the wind-power industry as it works to convince lawmakers the alternative-energy source benefits rural America and Republicans, not just urban environmentalists and
Democrats.

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Bloomberg • 15th July 2011

House Votes to Save Traditional Incandescent Bulb for 2012

The U.S. House approved a provision to save for a year the 100-watt incandescent light bulb, which has become a pear-shaped symbol of personal freedom to some
Republicans.

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Bloomberg • 27th November 2012

Senators Nosh Alaskan Gas Hors d’Oeuvres to End Energy Impasse

Democrat Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, say the warm bond between them can help move energy legislation forward.

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Businessweek • 17th June 2010

As Outrage Grows, So Does BP's Adviser Crew

Two months into a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil giant BP has assembled a crisis-management team of high-priced Washington insiders.

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Businessweek • 29th July 2010

Clean-Fuel Companies Left Behind by U.S. Energy Legislation

Jack Oswald, chief executive officer of the biofuel company SynGest Inc., says he planned to build at least 15 plants using corncobs to make nitrogen fertilizer. Now, he says he may be able to attract investors for as few as five.

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Bloomberg • 10th January 2012

Pennsylvania Fracking Foes Fault EPA Over Tainted Water Response

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called to say it would start delivering fresh water to their home, Ron and Jean Carter thought they gained an ally in a long fight with Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

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Bloomberg • 5th August 2011

Snakes Get Lobbyists as Breeders Charm Congress on Boa Ban

Andrew Wyatt says he could have picked an easier job than defending slithering creatures that squeeze their food to death and then swallow it whole.