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April 1, 2013 - Four days before the residents of Mayflower, Ark. watched crude oil bubble up from their yards and pour down their streets, the Texas company that owns the failed pipeline learned it was facing fines for safety violations related to a 2011 pipeline spill that fouled the Yellowstone River in Montana. What does this mean for the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline?

March 25, 2013 - MIT physicist Ernest Moniz is an academic who has also served on boards or advisory councils of large energy companies, including BP.

March 14, 2013 - When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch a large-scale mining project in Goliad County, Texas, it seemed the EPA would stand in the way -- until a powerful Democratic lobbyist and fundraiser intervened.

February 28, 2013 - Taxpayers for Common Sense has given a tongue-in-cheek "Golden Fleece Award" to the U.S. Department of Energy for speculatively spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars on small modular reactors being sought by the Tennessee Valley Authority and Savannah River Site.

February 25, 2013 - A big potential drawback to the convenience of absentee and mail voting: Studies show that ballots are rejected at a higher rate than for voters who brave the wait at polling places.

February 15, 2013 - A by-the-numbers look at President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage.

February 15, 2013 - With North Carolina flipping back into the Republican column, you could say that the new Solid South begins in Henderson, N.C. and ends in Valdosta, Ga., bracketed by Virginia and Florida.