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  • Obama Administration American Energy Roadblocks Part 7: Oil Shale
    November 2, 2012 – Oil shale is one of the most promising new sources of American-made energy. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. holds more than half of the world’s oil shale resources. The largest known deposits of oil shale are located in a 16,000-square mile area in the Green River formation in Colorado, Utah a... More
  • Chairman Hastings Statement on October Jobs Report
    November 2, 2012 – House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the October unemployment numbers: “President Obama’s leadership during the last four years has created a struggling economy with 23 million unemployed or underemployed Amer... More
  • Obama Administration American Energy Roadblocks Part 6: Renewable Energy
    November 1, 2012 – While President Obama likes to talk about the job creation and economic potential of renewable energy development on federal lands, his Administration has imposed unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles and duplicative regulatory requirements that have made the development of wind, solar, hydropower and geothermal energy mor... More

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