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Groups Warn of Effects of Potential Census Budget Shortfall

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Census Bureau may not have the resources it needs to prepare for the job. “It’s very easy to open a new business in New York City, but putting it in some small town in West Virginia is much more difficult,” Fienberg said. When we have uncertainty, business goes nowhere.”

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Making Introductions: Landmen Group Launches “Meet Us” Campaign

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The group focused its efforts on markets near major shale plays like Marcellus (New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia), New Albany (Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky), and Haynesville-Bossier (Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas), among others. The early results are impressive: The campaign received over 7.3

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The Nonprofits That Caught Volkswagen Red-Handed

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The California Environmental Protection Agency, which has more rigorous standards than the federal EPA, also took action, through its Air Resources Board (CARB). We call it the tip of the iceberg,” T&E Director Jos Dings told the New York Times. “We We don’t think this will be limited to Volkswagen.