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Bakken Emerges as Contender for US Oil Drilling Crown
2013-03-25 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: In the resurgence of US energy production, one spillover effect has been to put relatively obscure places on the map. One of those is Bakken, an oil hub that some believe could challenge the Gulf Coast's prodigious crude output. Bakken, a region stretching through swaths of North Dakota and Montana, has transformed itself into a major site of US crude production.The formation is now seen as the future of oil drilling in the U.S., and is an epicenter of pipeline expansion projects designed to capitalize...
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VIDEO: New contender for smartphone crown?
2013-02-25 08:51:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Companies have been showing off the latest technology at the mobile phone industry's biggest annual show, which is taking place in Barcelona.
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Linux remains a scrappy contender in the smartphone wars
2013-02-14 22:01:58| InfoWorld: Top News
IDC revealed today that to the surprise of nobody, Android and iOS dominate the global smartphone market, holding a combined 91.1 percent market share for the final quarter of 2012 and 87.6 percent for the year. While the ongoing battle for first place between Google and Apple wages on, an interesting race for the bronze medal is shaping up among Microsoft, BlackBerry, and, surprisingly, Linux.
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Carter Said to Be Leading Contender for Energy Secretary
2013-01-22 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is the leading candidate to replace Steven Chu as energy secretary in President Barack Obamas second term, according to two people familiar with the matter. Carter, 58, a physicist, would be part of the core administration team overseeing energy and environmental policy, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss personnel matters. Chu, 64, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, may announce his departure from the administration this week,...
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United States: Gregoire emerges as top contender to boss EPA
2013-01-08 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: President Obama is about to nominate outgoing Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire as the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a very private prediction from a very senior source in Washingtons congressional delegation. Gregoire was director of Washingtons Department of Ecology before being elected Attorney General in 1992. The future governor made her reputation by negotiating a Hanford nuclear waste cleanup agreement with the first Bush administration, which has held...
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