The Former head of the US Geological Survey (USGS), now editor-in-chief ofScience magazine (Marcia McNutt), looked at the economics and re-evaluated her position on the Keystone XL project. She now endorses building a pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada’s oil sands to the United States.
Listen to the full NPR interview with Ms. McNutt.
Marcia McNutt discusses in the interview with NPR, that if the Keystone XL pipeline were not built, the oil would be carried by rail and road tankers, which would be more environmentally damaging.
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Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.
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