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June 18, 2015 ENERGY (MSM)

Weeks after biofuel quotas furor, EPA faces Senate grilling

The much-anticipated hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management will likely increase congressional attention to the pitfalls of the decade-old biofuels policy as it faces a fresh wave of criticism from policymakers, the oil industry and environmentalists. Introduced in 2005 and a pillar of two presidential administrations, the RFS was aimed at cutting America’s dependence on foreign oil and shift the nation to cleaner energy sources.

June 17, 2015 GOLD (MSM)

Goldcorp to Release 2015 Second Quarter Results and Host Conference Call and Webcast on July 30th

[PR Newswire] – VANCOUVER, June 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) will release second quarter results prior to market open on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Goldcorp is one of the world’s fastest growing gold producers. Its low-cost gold production is located in safe jurisdictions in the Americas and remains 100% unhedged. This press release contains “forward-looking statements”, within the meaning of the United States Private Securities

June 17, 2015 ENERGY (MSM)

Russia not acting as responsible nuclear power: NATO commander

NATO’s top commander said on Wednesday Russia’s announcement it was adding 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal was not the kind of behavior expected of a responsible nuclear power. President Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Tuesday of the planned new deployments put further strain on the relations between Moscow and the West, already tense over the Ukraine crisis. “This is not a way that responsible nuclear nations behave,”