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President Obama Monday gave his official nod to nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as nominee for secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), and to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air pollution official Gina McCarthy to head up the EPA.

President Obama Wednesday named Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) CEO Sally Jewell as his nominee for secretary of the Department of Interior, to succeed Ken Salazar, who is departing at the end of March.

President Obama Wednesday named Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) CEO Sally Jewell as his nominee for secretary of the Department of Interior, to succeed Ken Salazar, who is departing at the end of March.

Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources Co. has agreed with a subsidiary of Carmeuse Holding S.A. (Luxembourg) to acquire its U.S. industrial sands business, Carmeuse Industrial Sands (CIS), for $297 million, giving it a large supply of sand for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities.

As Pennsylvania prepares to put in place a unique mega-law (HB 1950) to regulate and tax its blockbuster baby, the Marcellus Shale, nobody thinks it’s perfect, but most are prepared to live with it and work to improve it.

Tankers laden with liquefied natural gas (LNG) navigating the waters of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island would hurt the state’s economy by interfering with recreational boating, the seasonal tourism trade, commercial fishery operations, ferry operations and cruise ships, according to studies released this week.