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Covers:  energy, hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas drilling, pipelines, fracking
Doesn't Cover: solar energy, renewable energy, wind energy
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‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines

‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines

POLITICO — Biden’s and Trump’s energy plans each depend on building new pipelines, but landowners don’t believe the current inspection system can protect them from spills and deadly emissions. They have a point.
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Top energy donors to Trump and Harris dwarfed by Elon Musk

Top energy donors to Trump and Harris dwarfed by Elon Musk

E&E News — Campaign records show the Republican presidential nominee leads in energy donations, but his oil and gas haul doesn't match spending by the Tesla CEO.
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Frackings role in Pennsylvania isn't what you think

Frackings role in Pennsylvania isn't what you think

E&E News — Trump is hitting Harris with TV ads about her fracking flip. But the drilling process might not be as important to voters as pundits suggest.
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Billionaire Kelcy Warren invests in pipelines - and Trump

Billionaire Kelcy Warren invests in pipelines - and Trump

E&E News — The Energy Transfer boss' political strategy can yield big returns.
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Meet the Christian oil mogul spending big to elect Trump

Meet the Christian oil mogul spending big to elect Trump

E&E News — Tim Dunn helped pull Texas politics far to the right. Now, he wants to do the same for Washington.
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Trail of spills haunts Dakota Access developer

Trail of spills haunts Dakota Access developer

E&E News — A federal judge ordered regulators to examine the record of the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline. They'll find allegations of "egregious" construction problems, negligent operation, and plenty of accidents and leaks.
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Deadly pipelines, no rules

Deadly pipelines, no rules

E&E News — STANTON, Texas - People can die when small rural pipelines called "gathering lines" explode. But after decades of talk among industry and regulators, the death of a little girl in Texas serves as a reminder that there are still no rules.
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Danger Zone -- An E&E Special Report

Danger Zone -- An E&E Special Report

eenews.net — Worker safety is perhaps the only place where the oil and gas industry's safety record can be lined up next to other industries and compared. It's gotten better, but with a fatality rate that topped coal mining's in 2012, drilling stacks up badly. Public health and worker safety experts say that's a bad sign for people living amid frack tanks, rigs and truck traffic that come with the country's drilling boom. ODESSA, Texas -- Elaine Beadle initially thought the odor creeping into her home on this city's west side was a sewer leak.
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Regulation: N.M. is loosening drilling rules, bucking trends and riling ranchers -- 11/15/2012 --...

Regulation: N.M. is loosening drilling rules, bucking trends and riling ranchers -- 11/15/2012 --...

eenews.net — TATUM, N.M. -- In places like Tatum, where groundwater is near the surface, oil and gas drillers can't use pits for waste or drill cuttings and must use steel tanks as part of a "closed loop" system. But those strict requirements will likely end soon. Bucking a national trend toward tightening rules, New Mexico oil and gas officials are de-fanging the pit rule at the request of the oil and gas industry. Environmental groups and ranchers are fighting to keep New Mexico's pit rule intact, saying tanks and closed-loop systems have kept drilling wastes out of soils and groundwater.
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Earthquakes: Victims think drilling triggered shaking, and that's OK -- 07/24/2012 -- www.eenews....

Earthquakes: Victims think drilling triggered shaking, and that's OK -- 07/24/2012 -- www.eenews....

eenews.net — PRAGUE, Okla. -- Jerri Loveland sees a connection between the oil drilling that surrounds her home and the earthquake last November that upended her life. The magnitude-5.6 convulsion inflicted about $50,000 in damage to the farmhouse she shares with her husband, John, and their two young children. Some of her neighbors in this rural patch dotted with cattle and oil wells blame "fracking," or hydraulic fracturing. But coming from an oil industry family, she sees the connection as having more to do with the millions of gallons of salt-laden water that comes up with the oil and gets reinjected in deep wells nearby.
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