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Panel to take closely watched vote on pipeline station

A normally low profile citizen panel that votes on air pollution permits is set to take a closely watched vote Monday on whether Virginia's most powerful corporation can build a natural gas compressor station in a historical African-American community.

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China launches pioneering mission to far side of moon

China is preparing to launch a ground-breaking mission to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space power to rival Russia, the European Union and U.S. With its Chang'e 4 mission, China hopes to be the first country to ever successfully undertake such a landing.

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Judge: Pipeline owners trespassed, but work can continue

A Louisiana judge says a company building an oil pipeline through south Louisiana trespassed on the land of three people challenging the construction — but he allowed the work to continue and awarded each of the three $150 in compensation and damages.

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Michigan Senate OKs bill to enable Great Lakes pipeline deal

The Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to facilitate a deal to replace a contentious 65-year-old oil pipeline in the Great Lakes, approving legislation to empower a new authority to oversee the construction and operation of a utility tunnel that would encase the new pipeline.