In a meeting held late Monday, the panel approved 25 oil and gas exploration projects.

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He wants to continue a plan started under Milchovich to expand Foster Wheeler's limited expertise in building equipment for oil and gas exploration projects.

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The government is walking a thin line trying to address environmental concerns with suitable regulation while also looking to boost employment and falling production among oil and gas majors like Exxon and BP by allowing new exploration projects.

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These groups have employed a strategy of attempting to overwhelm the USFW with proposals to list hundreds of plant and animal species that exist in abundance over large geographic areas that are home to oil and gas exploration, wind farm development, major solar installations, highway projects and other significant human development projects.

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