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News for Columbia
Latest news from around Columbia, South Carolina, the Nation and the World
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Obama administration approves 20-year ban on new mining claims near Grand Canyon
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the news Thursday at a congressional hearing where Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum was scheduled to testify. She did not appear.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Scientists are anxiously awaiting signals about where a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico may be heading, while containment of the looming environmental catastrophe proves elusive.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities and that may have contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Obama administration has approved what would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod, inching the U.S. closer to harvesting an untapped domestic energy source — the steady breezes blowing along its vast coasts.
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