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A Tough-Oil World

Mar 14, 2012
The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump.

N.Y. Attorney General Takes Aim at ‘Fracking’

Jun 1, 2011
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against three federal agencies, alleging that they have failed to properly study the impact of proposed regulations on "fracking," a potentially dangerous process in which pressurized water and chemicals are used to dislodge oil and natural gas below the earth's surface. (more)