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3 Industries Thriving From Record-Low Natural Gas Prices
Low natural gas prices aren't bad for everyone. A few other industries are seeing enormous boosts with cheap, readily available natural gas. 
Don't Frack Me Up: Correcting Misinformation On Hydraulic Fracturing
Forbes sets the record straight with facts about fracking, not playing on emotion like many of the frac-tivists do.
Energy plays key role in Obama's State of the Union
For the third year in a row energy played a central role in President Obama's State of the Union address, with the president leaning hard this year on the twin themes of increased domestic oil and gas production and the need to invest more in renewable sources.
Oil and gas workers in area bringing needed revenue
An influx of pipeline workers for the oil and gas industry is providing a burst of economic activity in the Marietta area,
Youngstown Opens Mills Again as States Jockey for Fracking Jobs
Thirty-four years after Black Monday, the day Youngstown Sheet & Tube announced shutdowns marking the end of the Ohio city's steel era, a $650 million mill is coming to life thanks to the natural-gas drilling boom.
Kasich, coalition of leaders woo Shell
Gov. Kasich is pursuing Shell Chemicals' multibillion-dollar ethane cracker facility, which Shell plans to build in Ohio, West Virginia or Pennsylvania to capitalize on the growing harvest of natural gas from Marcellus shale.
Gas boom is sweet music to sand supplier
Hydraulic fracturing has not only created a boom in natural gas, but also for the sand from some Ohio companies that is needed for the fracturing process.
Encana cites 'critical mistakes' in U.S. EPA's fracturing study
Encana, the second largest natural gas producer in the United States, questions the results of a recent EPA report linking natural gas development with contaminated water in the tiny hamlet of Pavillion, Wyoming.
