Judge to rule on tribe oil pipeline request
A federal judge said he will rule by Sept. 9 on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's bid to halt the Dakota Access pipeline that spans four states including near the Standing Rock reservation. The $3.8 billion project by Energy Transfer Partners faces multiple legal challenges over environmental and historic impacts.
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Kota Access
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South Dakota
Missouri River
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
Dave Archambault
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Dakota Access
Earthjustice
Cautious bidding on offshore oil leases in Gulf
In New Orleans the federal Gulf of Mexico lease sale drew only three bidders on 24 of nearly 4400 tracts. Exxon Mobil, BP and BHP Billiton bid a combined 18 million, amid low oil prices and a shift toward onshore drilling.
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Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Stewart Glickman
S&p Global Market Intelligence
BP Exploration and Production Inc
BHP Billiton Petroleum Inc
Exxon Mobil Corp
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Michael Celata
Celata
Gulf
Glickman
BHP Billiton
Exxon
Coal towns gain 3000+ jobs from multimillion federal grants
Communities in nine states hit by coal layoffs will receive more than 3,000 new or retained jobs across agriculture health care manufacturing and tech through nearly 39 million in POWER funding announced in Huntington West Virginia The grants target eight Appalachian states plus Texas with projects ranging from retraining laid off miners to broadband rural expansion and drug abuse programs The largest award 7 5 million funds an optometry college at the University of Pikeville Kentucky and other grants back a food distribution network in five states with 67 million in matching investments
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U.S
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Texas
Appalachian States
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Kentucky
Mississippi
Ohio
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Nia
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Virginia
Appalachia
America
Earl Gohl
Bo Copley
Delbarton
Copley
Espe
Abingdon
Jay Williams
Barack Obama
Partnership For Opportunity
POWER
ACT scores show many grads not ready for college work
The ACT report finds only 38 percent of graduates met the college readiness benchmark in three of four core subjects reading English math and science down from 40 percent last year. The average composite fell to 20.8 from 21 with 64 percent of 2016 grads taking the ACT about 2.1 million students.
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ACT
Paul Weeks
Weeks
Co Relations
Proxima Centauri hosts Earthlike world dubbed Proximal
An international team reports the discovery of Proximal, a rocky Earthlike planet orbiting Proxima Centauri at about 4.22 light years from Earth. Using gravitational effects on the star, scientists estimate a 1.2 to 1.5 Earth-radius world with a 11 day year, likely tidally locked and bathed in intense X rays and UV radiation but potentially habitable underground.
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Earth
Proxima Centauri
Goldilocks
Guillem Anglada-Escude
Queen Mary University of London
Nature
Astronaut Extends US Space Station Time Record
Cape Canaveral reports astronaut Jeffrey Williams set a US in orbit record with 521 days aboard the ISS, surpassing Scott Kelly. With another two weeks to finish a half year, Williams will total 534 days, while Peggy Whitson is poised to exceed that later, aiming to top the woman’s space-time record.
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Jeffrey Williams
NASA
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U.S
Scott Kelly
Williams
Earth
Peggy Whitson
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