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Norway Lobbies To Persuade EU To Drop Arctic Drilling Ban Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Norway, Western Europe's top oil and gas producer, has intensified lobbying at the European Union to persuade the bloc to remove or tweak its moratorium on Arctic oil and gas drilling. Norway, which is not a member of the EU but is the biggest gas supplier to European markets, has sent nearly a dozen of its ministers to Brussels so far this year to discuss energy and trade and the state of the Arctic drilling. The Iran...

TSA Agents Finally Get Paid After Trump Signs Order Summary: AP reported that, by early afternoon, TSA agents began receiving pay. Reuters reported that as many as 50,000 TSA agents would receive paychecks as early as Monday. Trump officially issued a presidential memorandum on Friday instructing DHS to pay TSA agents. TSA Agents Get Paid  AP News reports that most Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents received paychecks on Monday after missing two paychecks during the ongoing government shutdown. Here's the headline from AP: TSA says most of its workers got paid Monday for at least...