Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...
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Why US Coal Producers Are Having a Very Good Year
By Tom DiChristopher, CNBCU.S. coal exports are rising this year, giving the fossil-fuel friendly Trump administration reason to cheer, but analysts believe the good times won't last. The surge in exports doesn't herald a...
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The Crisis in Venezuela Could Send Oil Prices Soaring
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comVenezuela’s deteriorating crisis is “going to be the biggest geopolitical story to watch in the oil markets," according to Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets. The economic, political and security...
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The Battery Problem That Could Slow the Electric Car Revolution
By Zandi Shabalala, ReutersProducers of processed lithium - an essential element for batteries used in electric cars - are agreeing long-term contracts with their customers to fund the investments needed to address a looming...
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The Great Battery Battle: Tesla Sparks an Arms Race in Energy Storage
By Ryan Browne, CNBCElon Musk's car company Tesla appears to be leading the "arms race" for lithium-ion batteries — for now. Musk recently announced plans to build the world's biggest lithium-ion battery storage project...
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Trump May Be in a Legislative Slump, but His Energy Agenda Is Getting Lots of Hits
By Tom DiChristopher, CNBCPresident Donald Trump may be fuming over Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, but he can certainly take solace in the GOP's swift overhaul of the Obama administration's energy and...
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5 Reasons Electric Cars Won’t Reduce Oil Consumption Anytime Soon
By David Yager, Oilprice.comHardly a day goes by without another media report about the impending demise of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) as petroleum powered cars and trucks are replaced by uber-clean Electric Vehicles...
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5 Red States That Are Going Green
By Zachary Basu, CNBCWith Donald Trump officially putting an end to the so-called war on coal, states whose economies were hampered by clean air and emissions regulations are finally free to return to the days of rugged...
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How Enormous Batteries Could Help Save Billions in Energy Costs
By Jen Fifield, StatelineIn Southern California, where an extreme energy shortage has threatened for months to shut off power for millions of homeowners, an unconventional source of electricity is helping to keep the lights...
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The Risk That Could Drive Oil Prices Higher in a Hurry
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comThe latest rally in oil prices ran up against a wall yet again, and the same fears about oversupply have not receded in the slightest. The expectation from most oil analysts is that there is very...
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Philippines remembers thousands killed a year after typhoon Haiyan
By Roland Ng, ReutersTACLOBAN CITY Philippines (Reuters) - Candles lit up the streets of the central Philippine city worst-hit by the strongest storm to make landfall as thousands remembered more than 6,300 people who...
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Don't cave in on climate policy, Senate leaders urge Obama
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Senate leaders on Friday urged President Barack Obama not to retreat from promises of strong domestic carbon cutting goals and significant aid to developing countries to...
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Georgia sues feds in escalating water wars in U.S. Southeast
By David Beasley, ReutersATLANTA (Reuters) - Atlanta's growing thirst for water prompted Georgia officials on Friday to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a request to tap more deeply into a lake critical to Alabama,...
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Why Waterless Fracking Holds So Much Promise
By Andre Topf, Oilprice.comOne of the biggest complaints levelled at the energy industry when it comes to fracking involves the amount of water used in the process of cracking open layers of shale rock to free trapped oil and...
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Factbox: From rum to racehorses, 'extender' tax breaks await Congress
By Roberta Rampton and David Lawder, ReutersKnown as "extenders," these 55 temporary laws have been in limbo since the end of 2013. That was when their last authorized extension ran out. Businesses have been clamoring for months for Congress...