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___ Boeing 737 Max 8s under scrutiny after Ethiopia crash HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — Airlines in Ethiopia, China, Indonesia and elsewhere have grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner after the second devastating crash of one of the planes in five months.

Colorado residents seek to block major oil and gas project

Frustrated residents of a Denver suburb say state law is forcing them to participate in a major oil and gas drilling project against their wishes, so they launched legal challenges with potentially significant consequences for the industry.

Correction: Ethiopia Plane Crash Story

In a story March 11 about the grounding of Boeing 737 8 MAX aircraft by China, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the flight ban would begin at 9:00 a.m.

Companies decry 'valve turners' who shut down pipelines

As Enbridge prepared to move climate-damaging tar sands crude through a 40-year-old pipeline in eastern Canada in 2015, environmentalists and indigenous peoples including Vanessa Gray thought about what happened in Michigan just five years earlier: Another of the company's lines had burst, sending oil into a river in one of the largest spills in U.S. history.

Italy standoff over high-speed rail to France eases

Italy's coalition partners appear to have temporarily resolved a dispute over the high-speed rail line to France, with an agreement to let new contract bids go out on schedule but without any financial commitments.