Tag Archives: Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline

How Donald Trump Is Making Big Promises to Big Business

On a Friday in late September, Donald J. Trump took time off the campaign trail for a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago with officials representing the vaping industry. The vaping emissaries talked about loosening regulations and told the former president he had “saved” the industry in the past. The group — …

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The ‘Greenest Governor’ Fights to Save a Landmark Climate Law

Long before the League of Conservation Voters embraced him as the “greenest governor” in America, Jay Inslee of Washington had written a book about climate change that called for a clean-energy revolution that would be the equivalent of the Apollo space program in commitment and innovation. But Mr. Inslee’s visions …

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Fuel Tanker Explosion Leaves at Least 150 Dead in Nigeria

More than 150 people were killed in northern Nigeria on Tuesday after an overturned fuel tanker exploded, according to a police spokesman, in one of the deadliest road disasters ever recorded in Africa’s most populous country. While the death toll was exceptionally high, the episode followed an all-too-common pattern on …

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