WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. oil companies have begun a national public relations campaign meant to counter their negative image, an industry lobby group said.

HOUSTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A major theme of last week's CERAWeek conference was an acceptance of climate change -- both on the environmental front and political -- but an insistence that oil and gas will be necessary if global energy demand remains and continues to rise.

HOUSTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Climate change was on the agenda at an influential oil industry meeting in Houston with repeated calls for a nationwide regime.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Senate committee has given the go-ahead to opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, attaching the measure to a budget-cutting bill.

WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- The Bush administration's comprehensive Energy Bill was headed to the House floor Thursday after being passed overnight by three committees.

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