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New Pipeline Application Received from TransCanada
The State Department has received a new application from TransCanada Corp. for a proposed pipeline that would run from the Canadian border to connect to an existing pipeline in Steele City, Nebraska. 
Interior Department sets rules for gas drilling on public lands
The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.
Interior readies next round of drilling-safety rules
The Interior Department is moving ahead with plans to update toughened offshore drilling safety standards that were first issued on an "emergency" basis months after the 2010 BP oil spill.
S.C. coast: Let's see what's out there
One of those resources rich areas is off the coast of South Carolina in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf. The resources that this region could yield are incredibly important, not only to our state, but to the entire country.
Polls Support Offshore Drilling
New polls by Rasmussen and Pew Research show Americans support more offshore drilling.
US News & World Report: The Cost of President Obama's Keystone XL Dithering
Politics gets in the way of the TransCanada project that would have brought jobs and energy
Banning: Pipeline would bring bolster local economy
In South Carolina and across our great country, anxiety is running high. We are mired in a deep recession, with our national unemployment rate at or exceeding 9 percent for more than 2 1/2 years. Although December’s rate did dip to 8.6 percent, it was mostly because more Americans have simply given up looking for work, greatly tempering hope that a jobs revival will happen anytime soon.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/02/2136767/banning-pipeline-would-bring-bolster.html#storylink=cpy
Energy plays key role in Obama's State of the Union
For the third year in a row energy played a central role in President Obama's State of the Union address, with the president leaning hard this year on the twin themes of increased domestic oil and gas production and the need to invest more in renewable sources.
