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Pickens would give it all up to be young again
If T. Boone Pickens could choose between his current circumstances and being an 18-year-old preparing to enter the job market, he would choose the latter — and he might send his first résumés to energy companies. The oil and gas entrepreneur, who...Tags: Environmental Issues, Petroleum Industry, Elections, Natural Gas, White House
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Sounding Off: Is proposed RV park needed?
Coming before the City Council of Huntington Beach on Monday will be the Ward Garfield Specific Plan No. 16. This project will remove an existing nursery, located under Edison's high-voltage tension wires, and replace it with 395 recreational vehicle (RV)...Tags: House Building, Research
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In The Pipeline: Oil spill needs more help now
"I've been near what I believed to be a big dirt clod in the muck. Then it blinks. And you realize: It's an oiled bird." Debbie McGuire, wildlife director at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center here in Huntington Beach, is talking about what it's like...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Disasters, Water Pollution, Environmental Issues, Facebook
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A sickening feeling in the Gulf
With every step I take, I feel as if I'm walking farther from the world I knew. In disbelief, I keep trying to make sense of what it is I am seeing. I still can't. I have chills just thinking about it. My eyes are watering, and this untamable emotion is...Tags: Disasters, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Emergency Incidents, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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Gas nears record high in Wichita, refinery shut downs to blame
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsGas prices in Wichita hit their highest price since July of 2008, when the city set a record. Tuesday morning, the price of regular unleaded jumped 10 cents at most stations around Wichita to $3.89 a gallon. Jim Hanni with AAA Kansas says the last time...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment, AAA, Joliet
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Tesoro gets state and federal clearance to buy BP's Arco assets
State and federal authorities cleared the way Friday for Tesoro Corp. to buy BP's Carson refinery, the Arco brand and other assets, and the Texas oil giant agreed to California restrictions on prices, jobs and retrofits to protect the environment. The...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Gasoline Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Petroleum Industry, Valero LP, Global Warming
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As Memorial Day nears, California gasoline prices rise above $4
Summer is coming. The long Memorial Day weekend is just two weeks away and, of course, average gasoline prices in California are back up above $4 a gallon. On Friday, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in California was $4.062, up 7.6...
Tags: Gasoline Industry, Petroleum Industry, AAA, Memorial Day, Auto Trends
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Cops: Man lost fingers in homemade bomb blast
FloriDUHA worker at a BP gas station in Tampa dialed 911 Tuesday afternoon to report a man in the parking lot who had injured his hand with fireworks, according to a news release from the Tampa Police Department. Officers who arrived immediately transported...Tags: Explosions, Bombings, Tampa, Emergency Incidents, FBI
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Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry
The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...
Tags: Science and Technology, Mexico, Seafood, Consumer Goods Industries, Ecosystems
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Police fatally shoot boy they say fired at pedestrians in Lawndale
Tribune reporterA teenaged gunman on a bicycle who officials said was firing shots at pedestrians and police officers was fatally shot by police this afternoon on the West Side, according to authorities. The gunman, who is 15 or 16, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai...Tags: Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Chicago Police Department, Firearms, Chicago Fire Department, Shootings
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2 shot on South Side
Tribune reporterA 36-year-old woman buying food from a street vendor on Kedzie Avenue was one of two people shot Saturday night. She sustained a wound to the arm about 10:35 p.m. just north of the intersection with 60th Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, police...Tags: Car Tires, Crime, Law and Justice, Manufacturing and Engineering, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Automotive Equipment
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