A Republican senator from North Dakota said he was working to insert language in a highway-funding bill that would lift a ban on U.S. crude oil exports. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven , R-N.D., told oil industry leaders gathered in Williston, a city at the heart of the state’s shale oil boom, that lifting a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports would help support the state’s industry workers . “That’s why I am working to include legislation lifting the ban in the new highway bill that Congress is on track to pass,” he said in a statement. Washington enacted a ban on domestic crude oil exports after Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum […]