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A man comforts a miner mourning fellow miners killed in an explosion at a coal mine on the outskirts of Quetta, in southwest Pakistan, Thursday, July 30, 2026.
Methane Explosion at Coal Mine Kills 34
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The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is seen near Paducah, Ky., Nov. 18, 2013.
Federal Government to Turn Kentucky Uranium Plant into AI Data Center, Gas Power Complex
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Jan. 15, 2025.
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In this October 2016 file photo, construction continues on the Dakota Access pipeline. A hearing was scheduled for Friday, April 9, 2021, to determine whether the Dakota Access oil pipeline should be allowed to continue operating without a key permit while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an environmental review on the project.
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In this Nov. 2, 2016 file photo, dozens of protestors demonstrating against the expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline wade in cold creek waters confronting local police, near Cannon Ball, N.D. The Army Corps of Engineers is recommending that the federal government negotiate a settlement with North Dakota for more than $38 million that the state spent policing the monthslong pipeline protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline almost four years ago.
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Visitors hike to a stone lookout over the Little Missouri River inside the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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The employees' lawsuit says the company sporadically deferred pay and said it would reward them with bonuses later.
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Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall.
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The largest contract to date went to a North Dakota company favored by President Trump.
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North Dakota Public Service Commissioners review a permit for the expansion of the Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota regulators unanimously approved the expansion, saying they believed the project had met exhaustive state and federal requirements.
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North Dakota OKs Pipeline
Texas-based Energy Transfer proposed doubling the capacity of the pipeline last year to meet growing demand for oil shipments from North Dakota
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