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The Associated Press looks at competition between China and India for oil and other goods.

“From Africa to the Arctic, the world's two most populous countries are bumping up against each other in their search for resources and new markets,” AP reports.

Bloomberg reports on Exxon Mobil’s Gulf of Mexico plans.

The Houston Chronicle checks out technologies that enable ultra-deepwater drilling.

Reuters has the latest on the long-running legal battle over Chevron Corp.’s alleged pollution of Ecuadorean rainforest.

BuzzFeed reports on an activist’s claim that Vice President Biden admitted he opposes the Keystone XL pipeline, but is in the “minority” in the Obama administration.

The veep’s office said Biden’s views remain unchanged, and cited a 2012 statement in which Biden said the administration will make a decision after the State Department review process.

"It's going to go through the process, and it will be made on an environmentally sound basis," Biden in 2012.

President Obama will huddle with power industry officials Wednesday afternoon as hurricane season approaches.

The oil and gas industry is accusing the Obama administration of side-stepping its procedural rules and rushing a regulation on auto emissions.

In the letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent on Tuesday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) accused the watchdog of violating portions of the Clean Air Act that require new rules to be published in the Federal Register, the government's official ledger for regulations and notices, before accepting comments from the public and holding public hearings. 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is putting public pressure on the Interior Department to move ahead with planned regulations that will govern drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast.

“It is important that we have those regulations that are clearly defined in advance — well in advance, hopefully — of the [drilling] season, so that level of certainty moving forward is there,” Murkowski told top Interior Department officials at an Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday.

Murkowski is the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, as well as the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees Interior’s budget.

The Interior Department is crafting “Arctic-specific” rules that will address topics such as spill containment readiness and other areas. Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes said Tuesday that the department intends to float draft regulations by the end of the year “so that there will be clarity moving forward.”

Nine liberal advocacy organizations said on Tuesday that they plan to pull their Facebook ads for at least two weeks to protest political TV ads funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political advocacy group, FWD.us.

Zuckerberg's organization, which is backed by other high-profile tech executives, has funded groups responsible for running TV ads that praise lawmakers for supporting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The ads are intended to build political support for lawmakers who will support immigration reform.

But groups including MoveOn.org, CREDO, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters and Presente said the ads are a cynical strategy that is hurting liberal causes.

A second Senate committee has expressed interest in the West, Texas, incident that killed 14 and injured 200.

Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer may spend money to back Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) in his race for the open Massachusetts Senate seat after supporting the liberal congressman in his successful primary fight.

Here’s what an aide to Steyer told Bloomberg about whether Steyer will get involved in Markey’s general election fight against Republican Gabriel Gomez:

“[T]he short answer is: It depends. . . . When climate is on the ballot through a significant difference between candidates, and local citizens want us to help them, we’ll thoroughly consider their request. In Massachusetts, a key will be whether Mr. Gomez stands with many cold-eyed realists in the military on the growing national security threat posed by climate change and fossil fuel dependence.

A pair of Democrats is putting pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for deciding against regulating methane emissions from coal mines.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) criticized EPA's April 30 decision to deny environmental law firm EarthJustice's petition to regulate the heat-trapping emissions at coal mines.

In a Tuesday letter to acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe, the lawmakers said the EPA erred in choosing not to regulate the nation’s fourth-largest source of methane emissions and that its reason — financial issues — was not sufficient.

CNBC breaks down what feds are really accusing JPMorgan Chase of in its alleged power market manipulation scheme.

NASA predicted how climate change could affect global rainfall patterns. The results? Seattle is still going to be wet, writes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said climate change — which he said contributed to recent forest fires in the state — is going to keep the state's spending tight, The Sacramento Bee reports.

Six coastal governors called on the federal government to open up more offshore waters for drilling at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, The Associated Press writes.

Bloomberg reports that "King Coal" no longer appears almighty.

Lawmakers who back natural-gas exports are trying to woo skeptical Democrats.