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Sep 19 2021
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Oil Company Official Overseeing Crackdown On Pipeline Resistance Cut Teeth At Amazon And Exxon
The head of security for the oil transport company Enbridge built his résumé managing Exxon Mobil’s response to community protests in Nigeria and helping oversee Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center, a division that has monitored environmental groups and union organizers.
Now, at Enbridge, Troy Kirby oversees efforts to combat a protest movement aimed at stopping construction of
The InterceptMay 29 2023
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Debt ceiling package would expedite approval of stalled natural gas pipeline project, bring millions in tax revenue to W. Virginia, Virginia
The BlazeFeb 23 2024
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Southeast PA’s Highest Paid School Admins: See Breakdown By County
PENNSYLVANIA - More than 1,450 Pennsylvania administrators made salaries of $150,000 per year or more and nine made over $300,000 a year during the 2022-23 school year, according to the latest data from the state Department of Education. The latest figures represent an increase from 1,200 administrators — including superintendents, principals and assistant principals, curriculum directors and
Patch.comJul 15 2020
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Trump revamps key environmental law in bid to fast track pipelines, roads
WASHINGTON/ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced final plans to expedite permitting for infrastructure like oil pipelines and road expansions, a move that critics say will sidestep the need for public input, especially from low-income and minority communities.
ReutersJul 07 2020
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline canceled after years of delays, accusations of environmental injustice
Ella Rose had returned home from church on Sunday, ready to settle in for the afternoon, when her phone rang. It was a friend, Chad Oba, delivering unexpected news: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the proposed multibillion-dollar project that had consumed their lives for the past six years, was no more.
It was officially canceled.
"My reaction was 'hallelujah,'" Rose, 76, recalled
NBC News (Online)Mar 06 2024
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After Big Oil’s waves of consolidations, Big Solar could be next
The wave of consolidation that swept through Big Oil in the last few months is expanding to Big Solar.
Large U.S. solar companies, hungry to buy commercial and utility-scale projects from their smaller peers, are finding a growing number of sellers who lack the patience and deep pockets needed to actually get a new solar farm built and connected to the grid, renewable energy experts
SemaforNov 26 2016
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Feds Plan To Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp
The federal government on Friday revealed plans to shut the largest camp in North Dakota where protesters have gathered for months in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
HuffPostJun 08 2021
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How A New Team Of Feds Hacked The Hackers And Got Colonial Pipeline's Ransom Back
The Department of Justice on Monday touted the recovery of $2.3 million — about half — of the ransom that was collected by hackers in the Colonial Pipeline attack last month. Experts say it was a surprising outcome to an increasingly frequent and severe crime.
"Ransomware is very seldom recovered," said April Falcon Doss, executive director of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy
NPR (Online News)Feb 23 2024
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Former Governor Jack Dalrymple testifies in DAPL trial
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Former Governor Jack Dalrymple called the Dakota Access Pipeline protests a “daily nightmare” during his time on the stand today in federal court. Dalrymple recounted the hardships of dealing with the protests during his last months in office. Dalrymple said he had reached out to the Army CORPS of Engineers and other federal offices for help. He said Secretary of the
KFYRMar 04 2024
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Health-care hack spreads pain across hospitals and doctors nationwide
The fallout from the hack of a little-known but pivotal health-care company is inflicting pain on hospitals, doctor offices, pharmacies and millions of patients across the nation, with government and industry officials calling it one of the most serious attacks on the health-care system in U.S. history.
The Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group, has cut
Washington Post