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Video of the Day

Video of the Day: Activists spray paint private jets orange

Emmeline Blythe
By Emmeline Blythe
June 20, 2024 12:00 AM
(X / @JustStop_Oil)
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Art

Religious artist Brian Kershisnik visits Museum of Art, answers questions about his painting 'Nativity'

By Alyse Clark
December 08, 2023 12:00 AM
Brian Kershisnik, a professional artist and BYU alumnus, visited the BYU Museum of Art on Monday, Dec. 4 to showcase and answer questions about his painting, “Nativity.”
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Metro

Conflict continues over Biden's Alaskan drilling project

By Joel Leighton
April 19, 2023 12:00 AM
Debate continues over the Biden administrations approval of the 'Willow Project,' the largest drilling project on U.S. soil in history.
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Local

Temporary oil refinery closure causes high gas prices in Mountain West

By Anna Hair
March 29, 2023 12:00 AM
The Suncor petroleum refinery located in Colorado closed for repairs in December 2022, impacting Utah's gas prices.
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Nation

Groups want offshore drilling tests to cease during lawsuit

By Associated Press
February 25, 2019 12:00 AM
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, beach goers hang out at the Isle of Palms, S.C., as Hurricane Florence spins out in the Atlantic ocean. Conservation groups suing President Donald Trump’s administration over plans to conduct offshore drilling tests want a judge to halt preparatory work for the drilling until their case is heard in court. A motion filed Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, in federal court in South Carolina seeks an injunction to stop testing involving seismic air guns. The lawsuit the conservation groups and cities along South Carolina’s coast filed seeks to permanently halt the offshore drilling tests. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)
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Nation

China’s Xi visits Philippines to deepen ties with US ally

By Associated Press
November 20, 2018 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping received a red-carpet welcome in the Philippines on Tuesday, as he paid his first visit to the U.S. treaty ally with offers of infrastructure loans and new accords to prevent clashes and possibly explore for oil and gas in the disputed South China Sea.
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Local

Environmentalists seek to prohibit fracking in Utah

By Katie Rhoton
March 11, 2016 12:00 AM
More than 45,000 acres of public land in Utah were approved for fracking in 2015, causing several environmentally friendly focused companies to file formal protests. In spite of the petitions, the land was approved for fracking by the Bureau of Land Management in January.
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Local

President Obama gives his last State of the Union address

By Isaac Wright
January 13, 2016 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Obama administration reveals first federal fracking regulations

March 24, 2015 12:00 AM
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell speaks in Anchorage, Alaska. The Obama administration is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
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Movies & Television

BYU grad heads to Academy Awards for documentary 'White Earth'

By Kara Mason
February 02, 2015 12:00 AM
A frigid, white blanket of snow covers the desolate landscape of North Dakota. Bitter winds strike the skin of children's faces on their way home from school, if they even went to school. The oil fields are fired up with the smell of crude oil and money in the air. All this is portrayed in the Oscar-nominated documentary 'White Earth' by filmmaker and BYU alumnus J. Christian Jensen.
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Nation

Despite low gas prices, gas tax hike appears unlikely

January 20, 2015 12:00 AM
The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs.
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Nation

Fracking brings economic opportunity despite environmental risk

By Lucy Schouten
January 20, 2015 12:00 AM
Horizontal oil fracking is a new technology that has boosted the domestic economy, helped pull down gas prices and given jobs to BYU students even as environmental activists express concern about its impact.
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