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Monday, October 01, 2012  Residents settle years-long lawsuit with BP.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012  The July 25, 2010, pipeline rupture spread oil across roughly 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Mich., fouling wildlife habitat and closing a large swath of the river to boaters and anglers.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012  A Canadian oil company announced Monday that it will proceed with a $2.8 million pipeline project expected to add hundreds of jobs in the Tri-State area.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  Missouri governor Jay Nixon plans to be in Shelbyville to throw his support behind a proposed crude oil pipeline that would run through Northeast Missouri.

Saturday, January 28, 2012  The tri-states region could be the site of a new cross-country pipeline.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  Focus shifts to Senate after House ignores Obama veto threat and OKs payroll tax cut measure

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Obama and congressional Republicans move toward showdown over oil pipeline and tax breaks

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  No regs are good regs: Rand Paul single-handedly blocks pipeline safety bill on principle

Wednesday, July 06, 2011  Documents detail Exxon's Yellowstone response as surging river raises fears spill could spread

Monday, July 04, 2011  Exxon claims Montana spill limited but governor doubtful, says company needs to look harder

Tuesday, May 03, 2011  FutureGen Alliance holds open house in its new offices in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010  The Obama administration wants Congress to tighten oversight of the nation's pipelines and more than double penalties for some safety violations in response to a deadly gas explosion in California and a major oil spill in Michigan.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010  The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

Sunday, August 01, 2010  U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River

Thursday, February 11, 2010  Putin calls Baltic Sea gas pipeline 'safe and reliable'