Pipeline

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RIVERDALE — A fire crew and environmental team responded Wednesday afternoon to a report of an oil leak in the vicinity of 671 West and 4400 South near the Weber River in Riverdale.

PRICE -- Authorities in central Utah are searching for two natural-gas pipeline workers who disappeared four days ago.

WASHINGTON — Sensing a political opening, congressional Republicans are moving toward a high-stakes showdown with President Barack Obama over a plan to link fast-tracked approval of an oil pipeline to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas will help the president achieve his top priority — creating jobs — without costing a dime of taxpayer money.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — After a largely amicable first round of public hearings into a proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, officials from the U.S. State Department could encounter much fiercer resistance Tuesday during a listening session in Nebraska.

RENO, Nev. -- Federal wildlife officials have agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for more than two dozen species of tiny snails in Nevada, Utah and California that environmentalists say are threatened by a big water pipeline project for Las Vegas.

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- The Nevada state Board of Agriculture is opposing a Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to pump millions of gallons of water from eastern Nevada and pipe it to Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS — A proposal to pipe groundwater about 300 miles from Utah and eastern Nevada to Las Vegas is getting negative feedback even from southern Nevadans who would most benefit from the system.