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Pennsylvania fracking trial begins, pitting families against driller

SCRANTON, Pa., Feb 23 (Reuters) - Cabot Oil & Gas Co contaminated drinking water for two Pennsylvania families in its rush to begin fracking operations during the state's natural gas boom, a lawyer told a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday at the start of a civil trial.

Struggling coal companies must face their cleanup costs -U.S. official

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Struggling coal companies must face the costs of cleaning up their spent mines even as they get pushed toward bankruptcy, the U.S. Interior Secretary said on Tuesday.

CERAWEEK-Saudi Arabia, not U.S. shale, world's swing oil producer-Hess

HOUSTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - OPEC leader Saudi Arabia, not the United States and its shale fields, is the world's true swing oil producer, able to start or stop production quickly in response to demand, the chief executive of Hess Corp said on Tuesday.

UPDATE 3-Kurdish oil flows shut as pipeline sabotaged in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Kurdistan's oil exports to world markets are set to be suspended for a second week running, a shipping source said, a move that will deprive Iraq's semi-autonomous region of its main revenue stream as the security situation in southeast Turkey worsens.

Nigeria's naira peg appears untenable - Stanbic chairman

LAGOS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria's pegged exchange rate policy appears unsustainable and undermines government efforts to attract investment and diversify the economy away from oil, the chairman of local lender Stanbic said on Tuesday.

UPDATE 1-Rousseff campaign chief Santana surrenders to Brazilian police

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - João Santana, the architect of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 campaigns, landed in Brazil from the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and was taken in a police jet to the city of Curitiba, the epicenter of a massive corruption probe, his spokesman said.

Brazil police probe possible Odebrecht bribes to Peru president

SAO PAULO/LIMA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian police are investigating potential bribes of $3 million from Latin America's largest engineering conglomerate Odebrecht to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, court documents showed.

Sunvault, Edison Plan Delaware Solar Plus Energy Storage Project

Sunvault Energy and Edison Power Co. have agreed to develop a solar power plus large-scale energy storage project in Delaware.

OPEC oil output freeze - OK, but at which levels?

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - When Russia and three OPEC members led by Saudi Arabia agreed a week ago to work on a global deal to freeze oil output, they could not have been more specific about the timeframe from which the freeze would start - January 2016.

UPDATE 1-Share of past-due U.S. commercial and industrial loans rises

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. businesses fell behind on more loans for commercial and industrial ventures during the fourth quarter, a sign the global economic slowdown is dragging more heavily on America's economy.

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