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10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
2015-04-10 08:41:03| Energy - Topix.net
Ten U.S. senators, representing the political spectrum, are seeking a federal investigation into displacement of IT workers by H-1B-using contractors. They are asking the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Labor Department to investigate the use of the H-1B program "to replace large numbers of American workers" at Southern California Edison and other employers.
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DOE, Senators Move Forward on Radioactive Waste Solution
2015-04-08 18:13:54| ENR.com: Headline News
Advocates hopeful that current logjam will be broken.
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DOE, Senators Look for Solution on Radioactive Waste Storage
2015-03-25 21:28:01| ENR.com: Headline News
Nuclear industry advocates say that lack of a permanent repository could hinder construction of new nuclear plants.
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Senators call for keeping lean meat in dietary guidelines
2015-03-16 16:17:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. A group of 30 Senators are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to keep lean meat in the dietary guidelines. read more
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California senators focus on oil industry, drinking water
2015-03-10 09:39:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
State oil and gas regulators have acknowledged "routinely" allowing oil and gas producers to inject steam underground at pressure so high that it cracks open underground rock formations, in violation of state and federal regulation, according to a state Senate report prepared for Tuesday's joint hearing by the Senate's environmental quality and natural resources and water committees. The way that oil companies in California use steam injection to extract oil from aging oil fields came under scrutiny in June 2011, when a Chevron worker, Robert David Taylor, fell into a sinkhole of boiling fluid that opened suddenly in a Kern County oil field.
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