Tag: Oil

North Dakota pumps 1 million barrels of oil a day

North Dakota pumps 1 million barrels of oil a day

Josh Wood · June 18, 2014 12:28 am

Bonnie Mager of Cheney, Wash., testifies at a state Senate hearing in this photo taken on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. The hearing focused on the safety of crude oil rail cars moving through the state. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)

Washington residents rail against oil shipments

Nicholas Geranios · June 17, 2014 10:53 pm

Good News: Everything Just Got More Expensive

Good News: Everything Just Got More Expensive

Geoffrey Norman · June 17, 2014 5:19 pm

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Oil prices slip as US deploys small force to Iraq

Pablo Gorondi · June 17, 2014 2:31 pm

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Oil barely changed as market watches Iraq turmoil

Pablo Gorondi · June 16, 2014 10:21 pm

With little and at times fabricated evidence, Big Green activists and their supporters in government have worked hard to undermine the energy revolution underway in the U.S. Exploiting fear and ignorance, they seek to convince Americans that the current natural gas boom propping up the country's sagging economy is despoiling the earth, polluting water supplies and even causing earthquakes. (Thinkstock Image)

Fracking raises worker salaries and cuts costs for states: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · June 16, 2014 9:00 pm

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Oil rises above $107 as Iraq turmoil intensifies

Pablo Gorondi · June 16, 2014 12:58 pm

Gov. Rick Scott’s stake in oil company questioned

Energy and Environment

Gov. Rick Scott’s stake in oil company questioned

Washington Examiner · June 15, 2014 6:45 pm

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 15 AND THEREAFTER - This photo taken June 9, 2014 shows a horse named Primo grazing in front of the home of local resident Joann Aramillo, with an oil and gas rig on a well pad visible a few hundred yards away, top right, in New Castle, a small farming and ranching settlement on the Western Slope of the Rockies, in Colo. Four in 10 new oil and gas wells near national forests and fragile watersheds or otherwise identified as higher pollution risks escape federal inspection, unchecked by an agency struggling to keep pace with America's drilling boom, according to an Associated Press review that shows wide state-by-state disparities in safety checks. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

4 in 10 higher risk wells aren’t inspected by feds

HOPE YENTHOMAS PEIPERT · June 15, 2014 4:08 am

New leaders mull direction of Fargo’s rapid growth

Dave Kolpack · June 14, 2014 5:35 pm

In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, militants parade down a main road in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi officials say al-Qaida-inspired militants who this week seized much of the country's Sunni heartland have pushed into an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad, capturing two towns there.(AP Photo/militant source via Twitter)

Oil rises again, nears $107 on Iraq fighting

The Associated Press · June 13, 2014 8:27 pm

When it comes to climate change, the markets are moving faster than the policymakers in Washington. (Thinkstock Image)

Markets get a jump on Washington on climate change

Zack Colman · June 13, 2014 2:30 pm