Move to Allow U.S. Oil Exports Accelerates

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Aug. 9, 2015

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Mr. Yergin’s IHS, along with other nonpartisan research organizations, including the Brookings Institution, Resources for the Future and Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, have published reports over the past year that all concluded the same thing: Exporting oil would be, on balance, good for the U.S. economy.

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