The three Wyoming members of Congress joined forces to request that the Treasury Department approve an application giving a company $350 million in investment tax credits to build the planned Medicine Bow Fuel and Power coal-to-liquids facility.
Republican Sens. Craig Thomas and Mike Enzi and Rep. Barbara Cubin sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [...]
After receiving assurances from Senate leaders that his state’s coastline would be protected, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida agreed Thursday to support a measure to permit offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
With his agreement, the Senate is expected to pass a proposal next week that would allow the harvesting of oil and natural [...]
Standing tall amid sunflowers and bales of hay, a greasy drilling rig roared loudly, a recent addition to an otherwise idyllic ranch north of Dallas, Texas.
Other signs of change sweep across rolling green fields — green-painted gas wells, large trucks trundling across narrow country roads and a mesh of pipes peeking out of bushes.
This is [...]
Standing tall amid sunflowers and bales of hay, a greasy drilling rig roared loudly, a recent addition to an otherwise idyllic ranch north of Dallas, Texas.
Other signs of change sweep across rolling green fields — green-painted gas wells, large trucks trundling across narrow country roads and a mesh of pipes peeking out of bushes.
This is [...]
Trains rumble slowly through downtown about three times a day, blocking traffic for a few minutes on the threshold of the Mayo Clinic.
The inconvenience isn’t a big deal to many of this city’s 95,000 residents. “Trains are romantic” and played a key role in the area’s history, says John Hunkele, 50, a baker.
But a plan [...]
