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Gulf oil spill could usher in new safety agency

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:24:37 +0000

The presidential panel investigating the massive Gulf oil spill will likely recommend to President Barack Obama next year new ways for both the federal government and the oil industry to oversee offshore drilling safety.
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Panel co-chair: BP alone did not cause Gulf spill

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:28:48 +0000

The co-chair of a presidential panel investigating the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history says the disaster cannot be blamed solely on BP.
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Obama restores eastern Gulf drilling ban

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:24:29 +0000

BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is dead, but the political fallout is very much alive.
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Obama rejects drilling in eastern Gulf of Mexico

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:25:00 +0000

Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation’s East Coast.
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ALERT: AP source: Obama administration won’t seek to end Gulf drilling ban off Florida after BP spill.

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:25:46 +0000

AP source: Obama administration won’t seek to end Gulf drilling ban off Florida after BP spill.
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Gulf Coast hopes for post-spill boom from retirees

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:24:21 +0000

For all the oil spill claims and cleanup work by BP, retirees from the North may be the best survival bet for some Gulf Coast resort towns this winter.
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Gulf oil spill recovery exec dead in plane crash

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:24:38 +0000

An executive helping to guide BP’s recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a top Texas lawyer and his mother-in-law were killed in a small plane crash in waters off northern Florida, officials said Wednesday.
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E-mails show struggle to guess size of Gulf spill

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:24:32 +0000

The Obama administration struggled behind the scenes to determine how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP well this year and defended estimates that for months were inaccurate, according to thousands of government e-mails.
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Gulf oil spill recovery exec dead in plane crash

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:27:52 +0000

A spokeswoman for energy giant BP says an executive helping to guide recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill died with two others when a small plane crashed in waters off the Florida Panhandle.
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BP deep-cleaning Gulf beaches amid new worries

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:25:18 +0000

What’s typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand out one end, tar balls out another.
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