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Senators bundle House bills into WEST Act to expedite energy exploration, weaken EPA

By | 05.01.12 | 10:30 am

Some the most anti-environmental legislation to pass the House has been bundled together into an omnibus bill in the Senate called the Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act.

Oklahoma earthquakes raise more questions about hydrofracking, injection wells

By | 11.07.11 | 8:55 am

Another swarm of earthquakes in an unusual part of the country has generated aftershocks of debate about whether the oil and gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is to blame.

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Virginia health reform ruling bolsters case made by Suthers

By | 12.14.10 | 7:38 am

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers took a lot of heat when he joined with nearly 20 Republican attorneys general to file a lawsuit against the national health care reform legislation just days after it passed. Detractors saw the suit as a bitter move less about law than about political spectacle. Defenders of Suthers told the Colorado Independent that Suthers was vindicated on Monday when a federal judge in Virginia declared a key provision of the health care law unconstitutional.

Virginia immigration law yields mixed results and hard feelings

By | 11.17.10 | 7:56 am

Long before Arizona passed a get-tough immigration law, Prince William County, Virginia, passed one of its own. That law, on the books for several years, has been the subject of a study and of a documentary film (trailer after the…