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**FILE** A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site operates near Burlington, Pa. Natural gas locked in dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio requires a powerful drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release it. (Associated Press)
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Workers move a section of well casing into place at a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa. Fracking uses water mixed with sand and chemicals to break underground rock and release large amounts of gas. (Associated Press)
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Former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., 51, speaks with reporters Jan. 6, 2012, outside the U.S. District Courthouse in D.C., after pleading guilty to felony counts of stealing more than $350,000 in taxpayer funds and failing to report income on his tax returns. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum chats with customer Mike Ahern, of Plymouth, NH, as he pays a visit to customers and employees at the Tilt 'n Diner in Tilton, NH, Thursday, January 5, 2012. Mr. Ahen was asking Mr. Santorum about the lack of jobs which are not related to stores which pay minimum wage and make it difficult for many people to succeed financially. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum talks with a customer while surrounded by news crews as he pays a visit to customers at the Tilt 'n Diner. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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The Financial Times referred to the U.S. Embassy being built in London as the "glazed green cube embassy." (State Department photo)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (behind) and Sen. John McCain embrace in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, as the Arizona senator endorses Mr. Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Delta Air Lines Inc., based in Atlanta, is the world's second-largest airline in passenger traffic behind United. Lufthansa is the fifth-largest, and the second-largest in Europe. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** PayPal president Scott Thompson, seen here Nov. 15, 2010, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, was picked by Yahoo as its next CEO on Jan. 4, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Northstar Disposal Services LLC in Youngstown, Ohio, has halted operations at its injection well, which disposes of brine used in gas and oil drilling, after a series of small earthquakes in the area, including a magnitude 4.0 on New Year's Eve. (Associated Press)
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Chris Keltz polishes a tank for JV Northwest, a manufacturer of stainless steel vessels, in Canby, Ore., on Dec. 14, 2011. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in December for the 29th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 31st consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. (Associated Press)
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Peter Tuchman, a trader with Quattro M Securities, works Jan. 3, 2012, from a handheld computer during the first day of trading at the New York Stock Market. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Cars wait to buy fuel at a petrol station in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 2, 2012. Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, a move that is sure to be unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens have come to expect cheap fuel as one of their few government benefits. (Associated Press)
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TIES THAT BIND: North Korea's "supreme leader," Kim Jong-un, speaks with a soldier on New Year's Day during his inspection of a tank division to congratulate members of the Korean People's Army. (Korean Central News Agency via Associated Press)
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**FILE** Demonstrators outside the White House march in November with a replica of a pipeline during a protest of the planned Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to Texas. (Associated Press)
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Because oil production from Mexico and Venezuela has fallen drastically in the past decade, Gulf Coast refineries like this one in Deer Park, Texas, now have the capacity to process an additional 500,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude that would come through the Keystone pipeline. (Associated Press)
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Occupy activists test a giant octopus made with plastic bags Dec. 29, 2011, in Pasadena, Calif. Activists with the Occupy movement, which protests perceived corporate greed and growing economic inequality, are planning to turn out en masse, on Jan. 2, at the annual Rose Parade accompanied by their own floats of sorts. (Associated Press)
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Firefighters extinguish numerous cars on fire in a carport in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 2, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Samantha Rhodes, center, and Samantha Mitchell, of North Port, Fl., cheer during the New Year's Eve celebration in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
