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	<title>Fuel Fix &#187; Jennifer A. Dlouhy</title>
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		<title>Feds lay out plans for new blowout preventer mandates</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/22/feds-lay-out-plans-for-new-blowout-preventer-mandates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BSEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Oil Disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Department]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[david hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Hunter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama administration officials today outlined their plans for new regulations designed to boost the reliability of crucial emergency equipment safeguarding offshore wells. Fundamentally, said Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes, blowout preventers "need to be able to cut whatever is in their way and completely sell off the well."]]></description>
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		<title>Feds get advice from industry, engineers on beefing up blowout preventers</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/22/feds-get-advice-from-industry-engineers-on-beefing-up-blowout-preventers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lloyd's register]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moduspec]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rulemaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators crafting new regulations to boost the reliability and power of emergency equipment used as a last line of defense against surging oil and gas at offshore wells will get feedback from energy companies, drilling engineers and other experts on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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		<title>38.6 million Gulf acres will be up for grabs in June lease sale</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/17/38-6-million-gulf-acres-will-be-up-for-grabs-in-june-lease-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/17/38-6-million-gulf-acres-will-be-up-for-grabs-in-june-lease-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BOEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central gulf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lease sale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oil and gas companies will have until June 19 to file their bids for the government's upcoming auction of drilling leases in the central Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department announced today.]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental groups challenge Shell&#8217;s Arctic drilling permits</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/17/environmental-groups-challenge-shells-arctic-drilling-permits/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/17/environmental-groups-challenge-shells-arctic-drilling-permits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arctic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic drilling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beaufort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chukchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthjustice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Op De Weegh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miyoko Sakashita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Alaska Wilderness League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Center for Biological Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Northern Alaska Environmental Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wilderness Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental groups have launched a new legal challenge to Shell Oil Co.'s plans to begin exploratory drilling in Arctic waters near Alaska this summer. ]]></description>
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		<title>House bill aims to curb Pentagon&#8217;s power to buy alternative fuels</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/16/house-bill-aims-to-curb-pentagons-power-to-buy-alternative-fuels/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/16/house-bill-aims-to-curb-pentagons-power-to-buy-alternative-fuels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The White House is threatening to veto a defense spending bill after complaining the measure would limit the military's ability to power its planes, ships and tanks with alternative fuels. ]]></description>
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		<title>Report casts doubt on E15 use in cars &amp; trucks</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/16/report-casts-doubt-on-e15-use-in-cars-trucks/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/16/report-casts-doubt-on-e15-use-in-cars-trucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gasoline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[api]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dinneen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E20]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable fuel standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RFA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Automakers and the oil industry released a report today that casts doubt on the safety of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol and shows that at least some engines running the fuel suffered damage during recent testing.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama challenges oil companies to drill existing leases</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/15/report-industry-sitting-idle-on-46-million-undeveloped-acres/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/15/report-industry-sitting-idle-on-46-million-undeveloped-acres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BLM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BOEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drilling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offshore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diligent development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Secretary Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leasing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tommy Beaudreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[use it or lose it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The White House on Tuesday pushed back against the oil and gas industry's claims that the Obama administration is blocking domestic energy development, releasing a new analysis showing that 46 million acres of federal lands and waters leased for drilling are sitting idle.]]></description>
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		<title>API pitches agenda for political parties: More drilling, more access</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/15/api-pitches-agenda-for-political-parties-more-drilling-more-access/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/15/api-pitches-agenda-for-political-parties-more-drilling-more-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[api]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Gerard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Connaughton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party platform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The oil and gas industry's largest trade group on Tuesday implored the Democratic and Republican parties to embrace policies for boosting domestic energy development and streamlining environmental regulations. Not surprisingly, API is urging "pro-development policies" that it says can "create new jobs throughout all parts of the country," not just in the oil patch.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration speaks with energy industry about gas drilling regulations</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/14/obama-administration-spokes-with-energy-industry-about-gas-drilling-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/14/obama-administration-spokes-with-energy-industry-about-gas-drilling-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A top White House adviser on Monday said the Obama administration made a concerted effort to reach out to the oil and gas industry while crafting regulations governing natural gas drilling but insists the effort isn't an election-year ploy.]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats take aim at oil industry tax breaks, partnerships</title>
		<link>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/11/democrats-take-aim-at-oil-industry-tax-breaks-partnerships/</link>
		<comments>http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/05/11/democrats-take-aim-at-oil-industry-tax-breaks-partnerships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer A. Dlouhy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bernie sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marginal well tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers are reviving plans to end tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies -- but this time, the campaign comes with a new twist.]]></description>
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