Saturday,  May 5, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 296 • 41 of 58 •  Other Editions

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Joe Oliver said the new route increases the likelihood the project will be approved.
• "I've been cautiously optimistic, I'm a little less cautious now," Oliver said.
• After Obama rejected the pipeline in January, TransCanada said it will build a portion of the line from Oklahoma to Texas. That 485-mile line from Cushing, Okla., to Port Arthur, Texas, does not require State Department approval because it does not cross a U.S. border. Another portion of the pipeline, connecting Steele City to Cushing, is already in place.
• Obama has vowed to expedite the Oklahoma-to-Texas segment, noting that sending additional oil to refineries on Texas' Gulf Coast would remove a critical bottleneck in the country's oil transportation system.
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Interior sets new drilling rules on public land
MATTHEW DALY,Associated Press

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.
• The proposed "fracking" rules also set standards

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