Already on the hot seat for poor graduation rates and saddling students with huge debt, for-profit universities have trained their sites on a new, more lucrative market: veterans and service members with G.I. Bill benefits.
Interior Sec. Ken Salazar called this week for natural gas firms to reveal the chemical stew used in hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.
For a political movement that claims to be born from rebellious voters, the call to repeal the direct election of U.S. Senators comes straight out of the oligarch's quill and ink playbook.
Colorado and Utah are the latest test sites to win BLM approval to explore oil shale. Despite spending billions of dollars the extractive energy sector hasn't produced a drop of commercial fuel.