House Republicans on Friday criticized an Obama administration study of hydraulic fracturing as unnecessary and plagued by delays and excessive costs. "We all want to ensure safe and responsible production of oil and natural gas, but the ...
Tags: Chemicals
While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Chemicals
A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age. Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican and chairman of ...
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The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
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A Senate Democrat from Delaware and a Republican in the House of Representatives from Texas Wednesday introduced bills to open tax-friendly corporate rules available to the oil and natural gas industry for decades to renewable power, energy ...
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The U.S. Senate has voted 74-20 to close debate and move to a final vote on a bill allowing states to collect sales tax from out-of-state Internet and catalog retailers. The Senate's Monday vote sets up an expedited vote on the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups. The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to ...
Tags: CISPA, Privacy Objections
The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share ...
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The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
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A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile
A leading group of trade associations and organizations announced today that the second annual "Imports Work Week" will take place during the week of May 6-10, 2013. Imports Work Week is an effort to draw attention to the essential role ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet "free from government control," with promises that the Republican majority would work with critics of ...
A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial cyberthreat sharing bill that's moving toward a House vote, critics said. The House ...
Tags: CISPA, Surveillance Bill
President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could backfire, several tech trade groups said. The provision, in a 2013 budget resolution ...