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This Feb. 26, 2021, file photo shows an oil well east of Casper, Wyo. The Biden administration is raising royalty rates that companies must pay for oil and natural gas extracted from federal lands as it moves forward under court order with sales of public fossil fuel reserves in nine states. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

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Biden increases oil royalty rate, scales back lease sales
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Fri,04/15/22-4:26PM , 92 Reads
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In this Sept. 9, 2010, photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. U.S. officials on Monday, March 28, 2022, adopted a long- delayed rule aimed at reducing deaths and environmental damage from oil and gas pipeline accidents. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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US will require valves on new pipelines to prevent disasters
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-1:03PM , 150 Reads
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In this Nov. 27, 2012 photo, endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes stand in their temporary transitional habitat, to be later released into the wild, at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier, Miss. U.S. wildlife officials have reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize the cranes and dozens of other plants and animals with extinction (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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US officials reverse course on pesticide's harm to wildlife
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Tue,03/08/22-10:30AM , 125 Reads
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In this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, a haul truck with a 250-ton capacity carries coal after being loaded from a nearby mechanized shovel at the Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Mont. The mine is in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, the largest source of coal in the U.S. Environmentalists are pushing to end mining because emissions from burning coal help drive climate change. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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As climate change costs mount, Biden seeks to price damages
By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press
Wed,02/23/22-10:36AM , 256 Reads
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