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U.S. proven reserves of crude oil and lease condensate totaled 29.5 billion barrels in 2011, a 15 percent increase....

...most major departments have reduced furlough days, or eliminated them altogether....

ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....

For decades, a specter has haunted the U.S. economy: surging gas prices....

...taxes are rising faster now under Obama than they have under any other president since WWII....

In 1993, President Clinton's Executive Order 12866 laid out the fundamental requirements that have governed regulatory analysis and review ever since....

U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity....

...Hawaii is at the forefront of modern, high-output agriculture: biotech farming....

...this IOM report has been pretty thoroughly debunked....

...a couple would be eligible for subsidies worth $3,452 to purchase a so-called silver insurance plan if they made up to $62,040 per year. But if they made just $1 more than that, they would lose the subsidy....

The study, done by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, marked the first time that a drilling company let government scientists inject special tracers into the fracking fluid and then continue regular monitoring....

...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....

Renewable fuel credit prices rose to record highs recently, reigniting the debate over repealing the federal government's ethanol mandate....

The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall....

Gas is not only cleaner than coal, but the United States has become the largest producer of natural gas....

Most primary care doctors are still waiting for the Medicaid pay raise that was scheduled to begin in January under the Affordable Care Act...

Lowering health care costs is tougher than improving the quality of care, according to first-year results from a key pilot program ....

Now that the odds that ObamaCare will crash and burn have ticked up a notch or two, the words “single payer” are being heard more frequently....

Businesses should see this as a warning, as they are a convenient target for politicians ....

In 1979, around the time that imprisonment rates began their sharp uptick, 314,000 people sat behind bars in the United States. As of mid-2013, that number stood at about 2 million....

a thick new blanket of North American oil cushioning the markets....

turning to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could become a road map for cash-strapped cities....

The ObamaCare law also stipulates that there "shall be no administrative or judicial review" of the board's decisions....

If President Obama’s proposed power plant emissions controls are enacted, it will destroy utilities burning coal, hike energy costs while making zero impact on earth’s climate...

A Medscape survey found 6 percent of physicians in the cash-only business in 2013, up from 4 percent in 2012. Most are primary care doctors....

U.S. crude oil production grew by more than 1 million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and the largest in U.S. history....

As the federal government’s financial condition worsens, states will likely have to pick up even more of the cost....

A study of Hawaii's requirement that firms provide insurance to those working at least 20 hours a week found a slight increase in the share of workers falling below that threshold after the requirement went into effect....

The spike in food prices, coupled with the global economic crisis, halted and even reversed the long-time trend in reducing malnutrition....

Americans have no idea how much taxpayers and consumers, through higher energy bills, are spending to subsidize all of those green energy projects....

...out of $668.1 million in tax credits claimed in tax year 2011, the Service disallowed only $11 million, and failed to find a single case of fraud....

the United States has blown past Russia to become the world's largest producer of natural gas, and America will shortly occupy the number one position in oil production as well....

biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....

In 2011, public education spending dropped for the first time in more than three decades....

There is no federal law that requires health insurers to accept all forms of payment, including credit cards or the cash-loaded, pre-paid debit cards that people without bank accounts often rely on....

A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground...

...many people are exempt from the mandate, and so the IRS has to know a lot about you in order to decide whether you are in compliance....

On October 1, millions of Americans are supposed to be able to go online and acquire health insurance on electronic exchanges in the states where they live....

...inflation-adjusted income for recent college graduates actually declined between 2000 and 2011....

the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-2012 to more than $440,000 a year....

Current law requires the federal government to approve all sales of U.S. gas abroad....

...many workers will soon discover that when they earn more money, they end up with less take-home pay....

The industry is expected to grow for many decades as the proven reserves of America's shale gas formations continue to grow....

...push for more separation between corporate interests and public governance....

...Shinseki has vowed to use integrated electronic records and paperless IT solutions to make health care more efficient...there has been little progress.....

...state flagship universities are a waste of time and resources for many students....

During his last State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a new universal pre-kindergarten education program....