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BP aims to plug gulf oil well for good with two-pronged 'kill' shot
www.washingtonpost.com-August 02, 2010
The next shot at killing BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico could begin as early as Monday night, as engineers plan to pump heavy mud into the capped but still dangerous well and "bullhead" the rogue oil back down into its source rock 2 1/2 miles below the seafloor.
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Gloom Awaits U.S. Climate Diplomacy
www.cfr.org-July 23, 2010
Cap-and-trade legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions appears to be dead in this Congress. Even a moderately ambitious alternative has been shelved until later this year at the earliest. The biggest implication is that the United States has once again failed to confront its climate problems. But there is another: the United States is in for a rocky time in international climate diplomacy.
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Three of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for federal government
www.washingtonpost.com-July 22, 2010
Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the usual revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill, a Washington Post analysis shows.
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U.S. Drills Deep Into BP as Spill Drama Drags On
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 21, 2010
Bob Dudley, BP PLC's lead executive in the Gulf of Mexico, spotted his U.S. government counterpart, retired Adm. Thad Allen, at the New Orleans hotel where both were staying earlier this month. Wanting to say good night after a long day, Mr. Dudley instead got fresh orders.
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Cameron says Britain won't investigate release of Lockerbie bomber
www.washingtonpost.com-July 21, 2010
British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Tuesday that his government will "engage constructively" with a U.S. Senate investigation of Scotland's release last summer of the man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over Lockerbie. But he dismissed a call for Britain to look into whether pressure from oil giant BP influenced that decision.
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Cameron rebuffs US, says no new inquiry on bomber
www.realclearpolitics.com-July 21, 2010
British Prime Minister David Cameron was trying to shift the focus of his U.S. visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, but hard feelings lingered after he turned aside calls for a fresh investigation into whether oil giant BP swayed Scotland's decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.
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Large China oil spill threatens sea life, water
http://news.yahoo.com-July 21, 2010
China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.
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Oil rig engineer testifies about power failures
www.latimes.com-July 20, 2010
Months before the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 men, the sophisticated drilling vessel experienced power blackouts, computer glitches and a balky propulsion system, and carried a list of more than 300 deferred maintenance projects.
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U.K. PM comes to talk Mideast, economy, war, anything but BP
www.msnbc.com-July 20, 2010
On the way to Washington, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants to talk about Afghanistan, Middle East peace prospects and the global economy.
Everyone else wants to talk about BP.
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5 leaks found, but test of BP cap will continue
www.msnbc.com-July 20, 2010
Federal and BP officials have found five leaks in and around the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, but they're "drips" and the test of an experimental cap will continue, the government's point man on the disaster said Tuesday.
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China Passes U.S. as World's Biggest Energy Consumer
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 19, 2010
China, powered by years of rapid economic growth, is now the world's biggest energy consumer, knocking the U.S. off a perch it held for more than a century, according to new data from the International Energy Agency.
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U.S. warns BP amid fears over seep near well
www.msnbc.com-July 19, 2010
The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its busted Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day after the company promised to watch closely for any signs of new leaks breaking through the sea floor, settling for the moment a rift between BP and the government.
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BP allowed to keep well shut amid concerns about seepage
www.washingtonpost.com-July 19, 2010
The federal government, concerned about seepage near BP's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, authorized the company Monday to keep the well shut for another 24 hours provided that BP engineers continue to "rigorously monitor" the sea floor for any signs that the situation is worsening.
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U.S. Allows BP to Keep Gulf Oil Well Closed for Another Day
www.nytimes.com-July 19, 2010
A pressure test of BP’s undersea well that has kept fresh oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will be allowed to continue for another day, despite concerns about potential new problems near the well, the government official overseeing the spill response said Monday.
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Rig's Final Hours Probed
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 18, 2010
Federal authorities investigating BP PLC's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are zeroing in on bad decisions, missed warnings and worker disagreements in the hours before the April 20 inferno aboard the Deepwater Horizon that spawned one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
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BP says it plans to keep gulf oil well cap closed
www.washingtonpost.com-July 18, 2010
After 90 days, BP's gushing oil well may now be as good as dead.
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For BP, Rising Pressure in Oil Well Seen as a Positive Sign
www.nytimes.com-July 17, 2010
Officials on Saturday said that pressure readings in the well were rising steadily since the valves were closed on a cap at the top of the well on Thursday afternoon, an indication that the well was in good shape.
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BP continues tests of sealed well
www.latimes.com-July 17, 2010
No more crude has poured into the gulf, and seismic scans are underway to make sure it isn't seeping into the seabed instead. 'We need to be careful not to do any harm,' says the Coast Guard.
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Oil leak is stopped for first time since April 20 blowout
www.washingtonpost.com-July 16, 2010
The gusher is gone. The plume is off the well. BP's Macondo well isn't dead yet, and it may be back in a flash, but at 3:25 p.m. Eastern time Thursday it ceased to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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BP Works to Fix Valve Leak Before Choking Oil Flow
www.abcnews.com-July 15, 2010
BP engineers worked Thursday to repair a leak found on a line attached to the new cap placed on top of its busted well in the Gulf of Mexico before continuing its delicate operation to stop the flow of crude.
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Oil leak in choke line delays start of latest test by BP
www.washingtonpost.com-July 15, 2010
A new piece of equipment designed to control the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well sprung its own leak Wednesday night, the latest setback to BP's efforts to put an end to the environmental disaster.
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BP lobbied U.K. ahead of Lockerbie bomber release
www.msnbc.com-July 15, 2010
BP said Thursday that it had lobbied the British government over a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya in late 2007 before the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
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Lessons from Exxon Valdez spill have gone unheeded
www.washingtonpost.com-July 14, 2010
The story of the last cataclysmic American oil spill has evolved over time into a straightforward tale of cause and effect: In 1989, a hard-drinking skipper ran his tanker aground in Alaska, and Exxon was unable to prevent crude from spreading along hundreds of miles of pristine shoreline.
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Gulf oil to keep flowing while cap is analyzed
http://apnews.myway.com-July 14, 2010
The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done Wednesday before critical tests could proceed.
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BP Oil Spill: Containment Cap to Be Tested, Environmental Devastation Spreads
www.abcnews.com-July 14, 2010
As BP begins to test the new cap that the company hopes will finally contain its gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil continued to roll into sensitive coastal areas today, an assault on the environment that will last long after the leak is finally under control.
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Sealing cap placed on oil well as Interior Dept. issues ban on offshore drilling
www.washingtonpost.com-July 13, 2010
The fate of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well, and of deep-water oil drilling in general, remained very much unresolved Monday, even as BP engineers finally installed a massive new sealing cap that could potentially enable them to shut down the well permanently.
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Historic oil spill fails to produce gains for U.S. environmentalists
www.washingtonpost.com-July 12, 2010
For environmentalists, the BP oil spill may be disproving the maxim that great tragedies produce great change.
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Teams resume burning oil in Gulf of Mexico
www.latimes.com-July 12, 2010
The work had been suspended after concerns that sea turtles were being trapped in the flames. Wildlife observers are on the boats now. But confusion and delays continue to plague the program.
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BP works to swap out oil well cap in undersea maneuver
www.washingtonpost.com-July 11, 2010
BP took one step back Saturday in order to take two steps forward in its struggle to tame the gushing Macondo oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, removing a cap that was catching some of the oil in the hopes of replacing it with one that would capture most or all of the leaking crude.
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Replacing old cap on gulf oil starts this weekend as hopes run high for relief
www.washingtonpost.com-July 10, 2010
BP is expected to start the delicate task of removing the loose cap atop its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and replacing it with a firm one that could capture almost all the oil and gas gushing out.
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BP: Gulf oil spill could be stopped this month
www.washingtonpost.com-July 08, 2010
The end may be near for the runaway gulf oil well, according to the most optimistic statement yet from a BP executive.
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Cleaning Up on the Oil Spill: Who's Making Money?
www.time.com-July 08, 2010
In mid-May, Mark Miller set up shop in a vacant Kia auto dealership in Pascagoula, Miss. — an oceanfront city near the middle of the U.S. Gulf Coast. Unlike the previous tenant, though, he's not selling cars. He's in town to cash in on what has recently become — and will probably be for a while — the area's biggest industry: oil-spill cleanup. Miller has been in the environmental-remediation business for 39 years, and 2010 will likely be his best. "It's a huge event," he says of the Deepwater Horizon spill. "I'm very happy with the work I have."
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U.S. Appeals Lifting of Drilling Ban as a `Rational' Response to Emergency
www.bloomberg.com-July 07, 2010
The U.S. government said a ban on deep-water oil drilling is a rational response under emergency circumstances and should be reinstated immediately.
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Recovery effort falls vastly short of BP's promises
www.washingtonpost.com-July 06, 2010
In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.
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Oil in Lake Pontchartrain stokes worries in New Orleans
www.washingtonpost.com-July 06, 2010
Experts say that the newly discovered oil in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans is not likely to cause much environmental damage. But the presence of tar balls and oil sheen so close to the Big Easy is a psychological blow.
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The Mire Next Time
www.newsweek.com-July 06, 2010
BP and federal officials have conjured parts of their oil-spill response plan from scratch and changed them by the day, often failing to act with the speed and decisiveness an emergency demands. The shortfalls have left responders in the Florida Panhandle longing for a post-hurricane chain of command.
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Officials and Scientists Spar Over Plan to Block Oil’s Approach
www.nytimes.com-July 06, 2010
With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico to block and then capture the oil.
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BP Aims for a Bull’s-Eye Under the Gulf of Mexico
www.nytimes.com-July 05, 2010
To hear the people at Baker Hughes tell it, a drill string — length after length of narrow pipe that can extend for miles into the earth — is far from a rigid assembly of high-strength steel. It is more like a wet noodle.
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For now, government and BP working together to assess oil spill damage
www.washingtonpost.com-July 04, 2010
In recent weeks, the Obama administration has sought to distance itself from BP in handling the Gulf of Mexico oil spill -- with one notable exception: When it comes to assessing how badly the spill has harmed the gulf, the two sides are working hand in hand.
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As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies
www.nytimes.com-July 04, 2010
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig’s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.
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In BP 'war room,' small victories, many uncertainties
www.washingtonpost.com-July 03, 2010
The ROV room is the closest thing to Mission Control. It's dark, cool, hushed. Engineers with headsets face a wall showing the live video feeds from the remotely operated vehicles, the submarines patrolling the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, roughly 420 miles to the east of this nondescript building in a BP office park in the sprawling Houston suburbs.
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Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow?
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 02, 2010
As the oil spill continues and the cleanup lags, we must begin to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions. There does not seem to be much that anyone can do to stop the spill except dig a relief well, not due until August. But the cleanup is a different story. The press and Internet are full of straightforward suggestions for easy ways of improving the cleanup, but the federal government is resisting these remedies.
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Law of Sea Implications for Gulf Spill
www.cfr.org-July 02, 2010
The expanding environmental and economic toll of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could focus attention on the need to clarify the rules for dealing with pollution that exceeds territorial boundaries. Caitlyn Antrim, an expert on ocean governance, says the Law of the Sea Treaty covers many of the issues raised by the spill, and even though the United States has not acceded to the treaty, it has agreed to abide by it. But she says many of the guidelines required by the treaty, which are necessary to address the liability and pollution issues among affected countries for this type of spill, have not been written.
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Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List
www.heritage.org-June 30, 2010
The oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse by the day. Oil spews from the broken well, further polluting our water and shores. The clean-up efforts drag on with bureaucratic interference, making matters worse. And what is the Obama administration doing? It continues to push for unrelated responses that will have a disastrous effect on our economy, especially the economy of the Gulf states most affected.
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Senate Democrats poised to start energy bill
www.latimes.com-June 27, 2010
With the gulf oil spill creating political opportunity, Senate Democrats will begin crafting a sweeping energy bill this week that could include a first-ever, though more modest, cap on global-warming pollution, believing they must act now despite differences within their ranks and political jitters in an election year.
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Tropical storm forms as oil spill battle continues
www.cnn.com-June 26, 2010
Tropical Storm Alex -- the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season this year -- formed in the Caribbean on Saturday as BP continued to battle a massive oil spill in the Gulf.
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Progress on containing gulf oil spill reversed as mishap lets well gush anew
www.washingtonpost.com-June 24, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon well became an uncapped geyser once again Wednesday, the hydrocarbons surging freely into the deep sea after engineers were forced to remove the dome that had been capturing significant quantities of oil.
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Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge
www.bloomberg.com-June 23, 2010
A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling services shares jumped on the news.
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More oil gushing into Gulf after problem with cap
www.associatedpress.com-June 23, 2010
The Coast Guard says BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge
www.bloomberg.com-June 22, 2010
A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling services shares jumped on the news.
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Lapses Found in Oversight of Failsafe Device on Oil Rig
www.nytimes.com-June 21, 2010
It was the last line of defense, the final barrier between the rushing volcanic fury of oil and gas and one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history.
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Emanuel Says U.S. Pushed BP to Be More Aggressive on Oil Spill
www.bloomberg.com-June 21, 2010
The Obama administration “forced” BP Plc to take more aggressive steps to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said when asked about the government’s response to the nation’s worst environmental disaster on ABC’s “This Week.”
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The Worse Case Scenario Gets Worse for BP as New Documents Come to Light
www.time.com-June 21, 2010
Representative Edward Markey, the pugnacious Boston Democrat who has emerged as one of the political stars of the oil spill, may have the final word on what caused the accident—philosophically, at least. On NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Markey released internal BP documents that showed the company believed that as much as 100,000 barrels a day—that's 4.2 million gallons, or nearly half a Valdez spill—could gush from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico if all equipment slowing the flow were removed.
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Obama's Energy Pipe Dreams
www.newsweek.com-June 21, 2010
The President's vilification of the oil industry is understandable, but not intelligent.
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Louisiana oystermen worry that BP payout won't be enough
www.washingtonpost.com-June 20, 2010
It sounds like a bottomless gusher of money: a $20 billion fund to help make Gulf Coast residents and businesses whole. But here in the bayou, where rich oyster beds have provided livelihoods to many and brought wealth to a few, people worry just how far BP's handouts will go.
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A Tricky Balance for Oil-State Politicians
www.nytimes.com-June 19, 2010
The outburst by Representative Joe L. Barton of Texas in support of BP underscored the potential peril for lawmakers forced to respond to crises involving industries vital to their regions, and whose bountiful donations finance their political campaigns.
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Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters
www.nytimes.com-June 19, 2010
From the Oval Office the other night, President Obama called the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” Senior people in the government have echoed that language.
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Apologies and anger dominate gulf oil-spill hearing as BP goes before Congress
www.washingtonpost.com-June 18, 2010
The much-anticipated congressional hearing Thursday on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill came down to a single word: Sorry.
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Obama Twists Arms at BP, Setting Off a Debate on Tactics
www.nytimes.com-June 18, 2010
First there was General Motors, whose chief executive was summarily dismissed by the White House shortly before the government became the company’s majority shareholder. Chrysler was forced into a merger. At the banks that received government bailouts, executive pay was curbed; at insurance companies seeking to jack up premiums, scathing criticism led to rollbacks.
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BP's Tony Hayward: Gulf oil spill 'never should have happened'
www.washingtonpost.com-June 17, 2010
In prepared testimony before a House panel that is expected to question him harshly Thursday, BP chief executive Tony Hayward says the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico "never should have happened" and has left him "personally devastated."
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Tony Hayward to appear at House hearing
www.washingtonpost.com-June 17, 2010
Tony Hayward will be at the disposal of angry members of Congress Thursday, when he testifies in front of a House subcommittee looking into the environmental disaster on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
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BP Chief to Express Contrition to House Panel
www.nytimes.com-June 17, 2010
BP’s embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, prepared to tell Congress on Thursday that he was “deeply sorry” for the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to demonstrate that he and the oil giant understood the enormity of the spill’s environmental, economic and human toll.
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BP Shares Rise After Deal on Fund
www.nytimes.com-June 17, 2010
Shares in BP made up part of their recent losses Thursday as investors welcomed a deal struck with President Obama to set up a compensation fund for the victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BP CEO Tony Haywood, in the hot seat, to testify before Congress
www.latimes.com-June 17, 2010
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward heads to Congress on Thursday, where he will personally apologize in the hope of easing lawmakers’ anger over the massive oil leak that is pouring millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Index Of U.S. Energy Security Risk
www.energyxxi.org-June 17, 2010
The Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk: Assessing America's Vulnerabilities in a Global Energy Market is an annual energy risk indicator, which uses quantifiable data, historical trend information, and government projections to identify the policies and other factors that contribute positively or negatively to U.S. energy security. The Index provides a look at energy security retrospectively from 1970 to 2009 and prospectively from 2010 to 2030. From this data, policymakers and energy professionals can use the Index to track shifts in U.S. energy security over time and assess potential impacts of new policies.
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Obama fried in oil
www.bostonhearld.com-June 16, 2010
This time he really, really means it.
Yes, on Day 57 of the worst oil spill in the nation’s history, President Barack Obama made yet another attempt to convince the American people that he’s in charge, that he cares and that he’s determined to have BP pay for the “environmental degradation” it has caused.
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Obama's Oval Office Address on the Oil Spill
www.realclearpolitics.com-June 16, 2010
Text of the president's address to the nation.
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Obama finally meets with BP brass
www.politico.com-June 16, 2010
Oil giant BP has agreed to finance a $20 billion escrow fund to pay claims to people who lost income in the Gulf Coast oil spill, an administration source told POLITICO Wednesday.
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Sleeping with the Enemy: BP's Deals with Iran Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996921,00.html#ixzz0r2HFX6mh
www.time.com-June 16, 2010
Like most of the major Western oil companies, British Petroleum has cut back its ties with Iran as international sanctions against the Islamic Republic have mounted in response to its nuclear program. BP several years ago halted investments larger than $20 million into Iran's energy infrastructure, remaining below the threshold for penalties set by the 1995 Iran Sanctions Act. And in the second half of 2009, the company halted the sale of refined petroleum products to Iran, which Tehran needs because of its limited domestic refining capacity.
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BP—Blah Performance
www.newsweek.com-June 16, 2010
President Obama's Oval Office speech about the Gulf oil spill was almost enough to make you miss President George W. Bush. Maybe not the actual presidency of George W. Bush, but at least the platonic ideal of the presidency of George W. Bush—the MBA president, the chief executive as CEO.
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Obama's Low-Octane Energy Message
www.cfr.org-June 16, 2010
President Barack Obama had two reasonable choices for his June 15 Oval Office address. He could have focused solely on the disaster in the Gulf. Or he could have used part of the speech to present a strong case for making the United States far less dependent on oil. In the end, though, he chose to stake a weak middle ground, wading into long-term energy policy without fully delivering the goods.
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Obama speech from Oval Office urges action on clean energy bill
www.washingtonpost.com-June 16, 2010
President Obama urged the nation Tuesday to rally behind legislation that would begin changing the way the country consumes and generates energy, saying the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is "the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now."
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Bring on the Barack and Tony Show
www.washingtonpost.com-June 16, 2010
The big question about President Obama's sit-down Wednesday with BP's Tony Hayward is, "Why didn't this happen six weeks ago?"
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At Meeting, Obama Setting Terms for BP Claims Fund
www.nytimes.com-June 16, 2010
Summoned by President Obama, the top executives of BP, the company responsible for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, went to the White House Wednesday morning to discuss the president’s demand that the company set aside billions of dollars in an independently administered escrow account to pay claims stemming from the disaster.
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Obama: Military Will Aid In Oil Spill Cleanup
www.pnj.com-June 16, 2010
More than 3,000 military training students cheered frequently as President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to use military might to help save the Gulf Coast from the oil spill, then talked about the military investment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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BP Agrees to Put $20 Billion in Escrow Account for People Affected by Oil Spill, White House Says
http://abcnews.com-June 16, 2010
BP today pledged to put $20 billion in an escrow account to compensate people affected by the Gulf coast oil spill, a White House official told ABC News.
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Oil-spill flow rate estimate surges to 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day
www.washingtonpost.com-June 15, 2010
The official estimate of the flow rate from the leaking gulf oil well has surged again, with government officials announcing Tuesday that 35,000 to 60,000 barrels (1.47 million to 2.52 million gallons) of oil a day are now gushing from the reservoir deep beneath the gulf.
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From the Oval Office
www.nytimes.com-June 15, 2010
Americans have been anxiously waiting for President Obama to take full charge of the gulf oil catastrophe. On Tuesday, in his first address from the Oval Office, he vowed to “fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes” and declared that “we will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused.”
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Gulf Coasters skeptical of Obama, BP promises
http://apnews.myway.com-June 15, 2010
President Barack Obama promised that life would return to normal for people living on the stricken Gulf Coast, and BP said by the end of the month it would contain more than three times as much oil spewing from a ruptured undersea well.
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Obama: We're Going to Make Sure 'BP Pays for the Damage It Has Done'
http://abcnews.com-June 15, 2010
As a congressional committee chided the heads of the nation's five largest oil companies in Washington, President Obama assured the people of the Gulf Coast again that the administration would make BP pay for the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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Obama Seeks to Show Control of Oil Spill Crisis with Oval Office Address
www.cbsnews.com-June 15, 2010
Since taking office, President Obama has made close to 600 speeches, statements and comments, but tonight he delivers only his second Address to the Nation and his first from the Oval Office.
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Obama defending Gulf effort in Oval Office address
http://news.yahoo.com-June 15, 2010
National anger rising, President Barack Obama is defending his efforts against the country's worst environmental disaster and hoping his first Oval Office address Tuesday night will stoke confidence that he can see the job through until the gushing oil is gone and Gulf Coast lives are back to normal.
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Obama Vows Spill Fix
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 15, 2010
President Barack Obama used his first Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday to outline a plan for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that looked beyond containing the gusher to securing full restitution from BP PLC, refashioning federal supervision of the oil industry and ending the nation's dependence on fossil fuels.
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Amid accusations of BP's 'shortcuts,' Obama to stress action, prevention in speech
www.washingtonpost.com-June 15, 2010
President Obama's Oval Office address Tuesday evening will focus on preventing future oil spills, ensuring that an independent entity oversees claims against BP, and outlining a new national energy strategy to reduce oil dependence, White House officials said. The 8 p.m. speech comes as newly released documents show that BP took "shortcuts" that may have led to the oil rig explosion and the disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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Oil Executives Tell Committee That BP Spill Is an Aberration
www.nytimes.com-June 15, 2010
The chief executives of the world’s largest oil companies faced a Congressional panel of inquisitors on Tuesday and tried to cast the BP spill as a rare event that their companies were not likely to repeat.
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Stakes rise for Obama amid oil spill crisis
www.latimes.com-June 15, 2010
The president returns to the troubled Gulf Coast, beckoning tourists to the region as he plans to address the nation and meet with BP officials this week.
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Oil-siphoning suspended after fire on drill ship, BP says
www.cnn.com-June 15, 2010
BP said it suspended the operation to siphon oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico after a fire aboard a drill ship Tuesday morning.
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Efforts to Repel Oil Spill Are Described as Chaotic
www.nytimes.com-June 14, 2010
Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials.
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After delays, U.S. begins to tap foreign aid for gulf oil spill
www.washingtonpost.com-June 14, 2010
Four weeks after the nation's worst environmental disaster, the Obama administration saw no need to accept offers of state-of-the-art skimmers, miles of boom or technical assistance from nations around the globe with experience fighting oil spills.
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Pressed by Obama, BP Weighs Options on Dividend
www.nytimes.com-June 14, 2010
Searching for a way to satisfy both the United States government and its own shareholders, the board of BP was examining three options for what to do with its next dividend, a person with direct knowledge of the board’s discussions said Monday.
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Obama Plans to Force BP’s Hand on Oil Spill Fund
www.nytimes.com-June 13, 2010
President Obama for the first time will address the nation about the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday night and outline his plans to legally force BP executives to create an escrow account reserving billions of dollars to compensate businesses and individuals if the company does not do so on its own, a senior administration official said on Sunday.
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Louisiana Rep. Charlie Melancon moved to tears by gulf spill
www.washingtonpost.com-June 11, 2010
Great globs of oil are churning in the surf. Muck-covered pelicans sit offshore, white only in their eyes. Here -- in a beach town living its nightmare -- Rep. Charlie Melancon (D) gets up at a community meeting.
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New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into Gulf
www.nytimes.com-June 11, 2010
A government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with the new calculation suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.
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Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates
www.latimes.com-June 11, 2010
Government scientists said Thursday that as many as 40,000 barrels of oil have been flowing daily from the blown-out BP well, doubling earlier estimates and greatly expanding the scope of what is already the largest spill in U.S. history.
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Reducing U.S. Oil Consumption
www.cfr.org-June 11, 2010
Higher oil prices and growing global demand have pushed energy companies to recover oil in riskier locations, such as the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill has raised questions about expanding drilling and led to calls to reduce the demand for oil. Here, three experts weigh in on what the United States could do to significantly reduce oil consumption.
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Increase in inspectors hasn't kept pace with boom in offshore U.S. oil rigs and projects
www.washingtonpost.com-June 10, 2010
Over the past quarter-century, oil companies have pushed the frontiers of offshore drilling, sharply stepping up the number of deep-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
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As Pressure Rises, BP Tries to Reassure Investors
www.nytimes.com-June 10, 2010
The oil giant BP tried to reassure investors Thursday that it had the financial flexibility to handle the growing costs of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
www.nytimes.com-June 10, 2010
When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.
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Liability and Financial Responsibility for Oil Spills Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and Related Statutes
www.brookings.edu-June 09, 2010
Michael Greenstone Professor of Environmental Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Director of The Hamilton Project, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Focuses on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental quality and the consequences of government regulation.
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American Power Act: Oil Spill Does Not Justify Wrecking the Economy
www.heritage.org-June 08, 2010
President Obama recently used the Gulf oil spill to stress the need for Congress to pass cap and trade, specifically the bill introduced by Senators John Kerry (D–MA) and Joe Lieberman (I–CT) after much delay. The 987-page American Power Act (APA) aims to reduce 2005 levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 80 percent by 2050, the same target that the House version passed last year.
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Democrats propose further tax hike on offshore oil
http://news.yahoo.com-June 08, 2010
Senate Democrats are moving to quintuple the tax that oil companies pay into an oil spill liability fund.
The move would raise $15 billion over the coming decade as Congress seeks to shore up the fund in the wake of the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But it's also being used to ease a tax hike passed by the House on investment fund managers.
The new legislation would raise the tax on oil produced offshore from 8 cents to 41 cents per barrel. That's nine cents higher than legislation that passed the House last month.
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Plumes of Oil Deep in Gulf Are Spreading Far, Tests Find
www.nytimes.com-June 08, 2010
The government confirmed Tuesday that plumes of dispersed oil were spreading far below the ocean surface from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, raising fresh concerns about the potential impact of the spill on sea life.
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Obama says he would have fired BP CEO's Tony Hayward
www.usatoday.com-June 08, 2010
President Obama said Tuesday he would have fired British Petroleum's CEO Tony Hayward for comments downplaying the Gulf oil spill if Hayward had been working for him,
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Spill reveals Obama's lack of executive experience
www.washingtonexaminer.com-June 08, 2010
In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Croft. "When you sit down and you look at [your] resume," Croft said to Obama, "there's no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I'm wrong, the only thing that you've actually run was the Harvard Law Review."
"Well, I've run my Senate office, and I've run this campaign," Obama said.
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Fickle oil spill scatters its threats across Gulf
http://news.yahoo.com-June 08, 2010
Oil from the BP spill is slathering some areas in a tarry mess while leaving others unscathed, even as a device collects more and more crude gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Reports at BP over years find history of problems
www.washingtonpost.com-June 08, 2010
A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the oil company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways.
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In Alabama, a Home-Grown Bid to Beat Back Oil
www.nytimes.com-June 08, 2010
James Hinton looked over a barge jutting into the mouth of a 6,000-acre estuary last weekend and said, “If we can make this work, if the oil don’t get in here, 1,275 miles of bay and river coastline will be protected.
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Years of Internal BP Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents
www.propublica.org-June 07, 2010
A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways.
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Obama vows BP will pay claims, says oil 'will be contained'
www.washingtonpost.com-June 07, 2010
President Obama promised Monday that the U.S. government would "ride herd" over oil giant BP to ensure that it promptly pays the claims of residents affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and he said the federal government is keeping watch over the health of recovery workers as the disaster entered its 49th day.
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Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, Official Says
www.nytimes.com-June 07, 2010
Although the Coast Guard had trained for the possibility of cleaning up a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done, the commander heading the federal response to the spill said Monday.
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Rate of Oil Leak, Still Not Clear, Puts Doubt on BP
www.nytimes.com-June 07, 2010
Staring day after day at images of oil billowing from an undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico, many Americans are struggling to make sense of the numbers.
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With oil spill, White House struggles to assert control of the unknown
www.washingtonpost.com-June 06, 2010
In a time of crisis, no resource is so precious, or so perishable, as credibility. Last weekend, the Obama White House discovered that it had sprung another leak.
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In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades
www.washingtonpost.com-June 06, 2010
Snorkeling along a coral reef near Veracruz, Mexico, in 2002, Texas biologist Wes Tunnell spotted what looked like a ledge of rock covered in sand, shells, algae and hermit crabs. He knew, from years of research at the reef, that it probably wasn't a rock at all. He stabbed it with his diving knife. His blade pulled up gunk.
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In Gulf, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Oil Rig
www.nytimes.com-June 06, 2010
Over six days in May, far from the familiar choreography of Washington hearings, federal investigators grilled workers involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a chilly, sterile conference room at a hotel near the airport here.
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Imagining Life Without Oil, and Being Ready
www.nytimes.com-June 06, 2010
As oil continued to pour into the Gulf of Mexico on a recent Saturday, Jennifer Wilkerson spent three hours on the phone talking about life after petroleum.
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Pelicans, Back From Brink of Extinction, Face Oil Threat
www.nytimes.com-June 05, 2010
For more than a decade, the hundreds of brown pelicans that nested among the mangrove shrubs on Queen Bess Island west of here were living proof that a species brought to the edge of extinction could come back and thrive.
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Strategies to Reduce Oil Dependence Now
www.newamerica.net-June 05, 2010
By 2020, the EIA projects that Americans will consume 15 million barrels of oil per day through transportation. Of that, we will produce only 6 million barrels domestically, with more than a third of those projected to come from drilling in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. Economically, oil acts as a sponge in the US economy, as rising gas prices soak up disposable income. On May 11, 2010, for example, Americans spent $1.1 billion on gasoline--$239 million more than on the same day a year before, when gas was 62 cents cheaper per gallon. On a household level, lack of transit options means that the average family of four pays more to own and fuel a car than for either taxes or health care.*
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White House is feeling weight of controversies surrounding oil spill, elections
www.washingtonpost.com-June 04, 2010
At virtually every turn lately, the White House cannot shake the appearance that it is hamstrung and a step behind. From a major crisis such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to smaller and seemingly avoidable controversies over internal Democratic Party politics, President Obama and his team are on the defensive.
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BP caps well; effectiveness of 'top hat' unclear
www.washingtonpost.com-June 04, 2010
The well has been capped, more or less. BP engineers Thursday night guided a containment dome onto the hydrocarbon geyser shooting from the Gulf of Mexico oil well -- a desperate and iffy attempt to capture the leaking oil and funnel it to a ship on the surface.
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Plan for Relief Wells Spurs Hope Amid Caution
www.nytimes.com-June 04, 2010
As engineers made headway Thursday in containing the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, crews on two floating rigs flanking the spot where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank were doing what rig crews normally do: drilling wells.
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BP oil spill presents researchers with unwelcome opportunity of a lifetime
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
For some people, a giant underwater oil leak isn't solely an environmental disaster. It's also a delicious, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for research.
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Is President Obama's Carter moment nearing?
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
"This is the worst," a Democratic friend exclaimed over the phone on Tuesday, the first day back at work after the Memorial Day weekend. I knew without asking what he meant -- the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that dominated television coverage and was into its second month with no quick solution in sight.
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BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
Crews working to cap a gushing oil well deep in the Gulf of Mexico used giant shears operated by a robotic submarine to cut a damaged pipe, a senior Coast Guard official said Thursday.
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To jittery Ala. fishermen looking for answers, feds say: We don't know.
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
The crowd was several hundred jittery Alabamians, many with the deep tans that marked them as commercial shrimpers or oystermen. They had come to a community meeting that promised to "help provide answers" about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Slick Nears Florida Panhandle Beaches
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 03, 2010
Nation's Largest Swing State Braces for Impact of the Spreading Disaster as Six-Foot-Long Sheen Is Spotted Near Shore.
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Catastrophe in the Gulf: How Bad Could It Get?
www.time.com-June 03, 2010
When Captain James Peters kicks his three engines into high gear, hold on to your hat — and your body too, if you don't want to end up overboard in the Mississippi Delta. Ordinarily on a clear June day like this one, Peters would be taking out a pack of eager sport fishermen from his home port in the southeastern Louisiana town of Venice, a community that proudly bills itself as the fishing capital of the world. But since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20 — triggering a spill that is bleeding hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico — there hasn't been a whole lot of fishing in Louisiana.
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Obama hopes oil spill boosts support for climate bill
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency.
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Gulf Coast oil spill could wreck region's tourism and fishing industries
www.washingtonpost.com-June 03, 2010
The gargantuan blob of light Louisiana crude floating in the Gulf of Mexico has already closed oyster beds, shut down shrimpers, cancelled fishing tournaments and panicked beach hoteliers from New Orleans to Key West.
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Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says
www.nytimes.com-June 03, 2010
The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well?
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Fishermen Wait on Docks as Oil Gushes
www.nytimes.com-June 03, 2010
This time of year, Eric Authement would normally be buying about 70,000 pounds of shrimp a day from the boats that line the Grand Caillou Bayou and spread their winglike nets in the bays, marshes, coastal waters and inlets along the coast.
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BP Prepares Second Attempt to Cut Gulf Oil-Well Pipe
www.bloomberg.com-June 03, 2010
BP Plc is preparing a second attempt to cut the main pipe on a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after freeing a saw blade that became stuck during preparatory work to siphon the crude to ships on the surface.
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Sustaining Security: How Natural Resources Influence National Security
www.cnas.org-June 03, 2010
In the 21st century, the security of nations will depend increasingly on the security of natural resources, or “natural security.” Countries around the world rely on the availability of potable water, arable land, fish stocks, biodiversity, energy, minerals and other renewable and nonrenewable resources to meet the rising needs and expectations of a growing world population.
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Biden acknowledges message lapse on oil spill
www.reuters.com-June 02, 2010
The White House has been deeply involved in the effort to staunch the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from the start but may have made a mistake by failing to communicate effectively about its efforts, Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday.
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Effort to contain Gulf oil spill stalls with stuck saw
www.washingtonpost.com-June 02, 2010
The latest attempt at containing oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico -- a plan to saw off a leaking pipe and slide a cap over it -- has been stopped because the saw is stuck, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday morning.
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Obama's agenda gets bogged down in oil
www.latimes.com-June 02, 2010
With the midterm elections nearing, the president by now had planned to be focusing on jobs and the economy. But the gulf oil spills has sidetracked him — and potentially Democrats' election hopes.
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Holiday weekend is ominous sign of hard times to come for Louisiana beach town
www.washingtonpost.com-May 31, 2010
If the rig had never blown, if the oil had never spewed, if the roads of Grand Isle had never given way to an endless stream of military vehicles, Mary Jackson would have spent Memorial Day weekend fishing with her 3-year-old grandson, a boy who wakes up in the morning talking about the water.
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Reforms Slow to Arrive at Drilling Agency
www.nytimes.com-May 31, 2010
As President Obama and his top aides were convening a series of meetings that led to the announcement in March of a major expansion of offshore oil drilling, the troubled history of the agency that regulates such drilling operations was well known.
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As 'top kill' effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy
www.washingtonpost.com-May 30, 2010
It is the well that will not die.
BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted "top kill" of the well was abandoned late Saturday afternoon, leaving the huge Macondo field deep beneath the sea floor once again free to pump at least half a million gallons of crude a day into the gulf.
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BP Prepares to Take New Tack on Leak After ‘Top Kill’ Fails
www.nytimes.com-May 30, 2010
In another serious setback in the effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers said Saturday that the “top kill” technique had failed and, after consultation with government officials, they had decided to move on to another strategy.
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Obama heads to Gulf Coast a second time as oil spill's impact grows
www.washingtonpost.com-May 28, 2010
As President Obama prepared to visit Louisiana Friday to assess a growing environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast, the chief executive of BP pointed to progress in combating a five-week-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but said it would take another two days to know whether the latest effort has been successful.
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Obama struggling to show he's in control of oil spill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 28, 2010
A defensive President Obama sought Thursday to quell doubts about his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, insisting that his administration has been "in charge" from the moment it began and bristling that critics who accuse it of being sluggish to react "don't know the facts."
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Oil Flow Is Stemmed, but Could Resume, Official Says
www.nytimes.com-May 28, 2010
By injecting solid objects as well as heavy drilling fluid into the stricken well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico overnight, engineers appeared to have stemmed the flow of oil, Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard, the leader of the government effort, said on Friday morning. But he stressed that the next 12 to 18 hours will be “very critical” in permanently stanching what is already the worst oil spill in United States history.
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Obama to extend ban on drilling new deepwater oil wells; Va., Alaska lease sales to be canceled
www.washingtonpost.com-May 27, 2010
President Obama on Thursday will announce a six-month ban on drilling new deepwater oil wells, the White House said, and cancel plans for exploratory drilling and new lease sales off the coast of Alaska, as well as a proposed lease sale off the Virginia coast.
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BP says effort to plug well 'proceeding as planned,' but success still uncertain
www.washingtonpost.com-May 27, 2010
The "top kill" is underway, success uncertain. BP engineers are pumping mud at a furious rate into the damaged blowout preventer that sits on the uncapped well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The hazardous-but-high-reward maneuver comes five weeks into the oil spill crisis amid an intensifying atmosphere of political recrimination that has spread from the Gulf Coast to the White House and Congress.
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BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
www.nytimes.com-May 27, 2010
Several days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options, according to a BP document.
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Obama to Extend Drilling Moratorium
www.nytimes.com-May 27, 2010
President Obama plans to announce Thursday that he is extending the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells for six more months and will delay or cancel specific projects off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and in the western Gulf of Mexico, a White House official said.
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Sources: U.S. oil agency chief quits
www.msnbc.com-May 27, 2010
The head of the troubled agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned under pressure Thursday, Democratic sources said, as President Barack Obama moved more aggressively to take charge of the Gulf oil spill.
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Is oil spill becoming Obama's Katrina?
www.usatoday.com-May 27, 2010
The hurricane that drowned New Orleans and cast George W. Bush as out of touch swept across the Gulf Coast nearly five years ago. Now, as oil laps ashore in the very same region, local officials are asking: Is there another government-Gulf Coast disconnect? Is BP's oil spill becoming this president's Katrina?
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President's News Conference
www.msnbc.com-May 27, 2010
The president conducts a news conference in Washington D.C.
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BP pauses 'top kill' effort to stop leak
www.msnbc.com-May 27, 2010
As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
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Obama Defends Handling of Oil Spill
www.nytimes.com-May 27, 2010
Saying that he is “angry and frustrated” over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama on Thursday ordered work to be suspended on exploratory drilling in the gulf and cancelled or deferred some future wells around the country, as the head of the agency regulating offshore drilling resigned under pressure.
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Rory Cooper on Obama's Oil Spill Press Conference on Bloomberg News
www.heritage.org-May 27, 2010
Rory Cooper discusses President Obama's press conference on the Gulf oil spill.
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BP poised for 'top kill' to try to plug spill; final decision to come Wednesday
www.washingtonpost.com-May 26, 2010
The most critical moment in the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico is at hand, as BP engineers armed with 50,000 barrels of dense mud and a fleet of robotic submarines are poised to attempt a "top kill" maneuver to plug the gushing well a mile below the surface.
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Panel Suggests Signs of Trouble Before Rig Explosion
www.nytimes.com-May 26, 2010
In the hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico, there were strong warning signs that something was terribly wrong with the well, according to a Congressional committee that was briefed on the accident by executives from BP.
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BP Prepares for ‘Top Kill’ Procedure
www.nytimes.com-May 26, 2010
BP was poised Wednesday morning to decide whether to move ahead with its most ambitious — and potentially most consequential — effort to plug the mile-deep gusher of oil that has been streaming into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month.
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BP reports warning signs before gulf oil rig explosion
www.latimes.com-May 26, 2010
A BP investigation into the gulf oil rig explosion says a variety of problems could be to blame, and that workers had several hours' warning.
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Sen. John Kerry: Halt to offshore oil drilling 'not going to happen'
www.csmonitor.com-May 26, 2010
The Gulf oil spill may well derail energy and climate legislation this year, acknowledged Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday. But it won't halt offshore oil drilling in the Gulf, given America's reliance on that resource, he said.
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Carville Slams Obama Over Oil Spill: "We're About To Die Down Here"
www.realclearpolitics.com-May 26, 2010
Democratic strategist James Carville blasts White House over rig spill reaction. "I have no idea why their attitude was so hands-off, it's unbelievable. I hope he sees it now cause very seldom we get something that's really good politics and really the right thing to do," Carville said.
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Five questions for Obama on the oil spill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 26, 2010
As his administration comes under increasing criticism for its handling of the spreading environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama will hold a White House news conference Thursday, his first since February, in an attempt to retake command of the message. He'll do so as the crisis reaches yet another moment of high risk, both in the Gulf and in Washington.
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BP engineers prepare 'top kill' attempt to stop oil flow into the Gulf
www.washingtonpost.com-May 25, 2010
The most critical moment in the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico is at hand, as BP engineers armed with 50,000 barrels of dense mud and a fleet of robotic submarines are poised to attempt a "top kill" maneuver to plug the leaking well a mile below the surface.
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BP Set for
www.cbsnews.com-May 25, 2010
Five weeks after a massive oil spill that has fouled the Gulf coast and caused confusion about who is ultimately responsible for the containment efforts, BP is poised to launch its latest attempt to plug the troublesome leak.
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Spill response frustrates Dems
www.politico.com-May 25, 2010
Even Democrats are starting to get frustrated with the Obama administration’s response to the massive BP oil spill.
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Report shows close ties between rig inspectors, oil industry
www.washingtonpost.com-May 25, 2010
Inspectors with the Minerals Management Service -- charged with enforcing safety and environmental rules on off-shore rigs -- routinely took gifts from the companies they were supposed to be policing, including hunting trips, college football tickets and meals, according to a new report.
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U.S. Deepwater Drilling's Future
www.cfr.org-May 25, 2010
In an effort to prevent overdependence on oil imports, domestic oil production as a percentage of U.S. consumption has grown even as environmental concerns have prevented new exploration in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along most U.S. coasts. The U.S. government's Energy Information Service (EIA) estimates that in the near term, most new U.S. oil production will be in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S. agency overseeing oil drilling ignored warnings of risks
www.washingtonpost.com-May 24, 2010
The federal agency responsible for regulating offshore oil drilling repeatedly ignored warnings from government scientists about environmental risks in its push to approve energy exploration activities quickly, according to numerous documents and interviews.
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BP Kept Using Toxic Chemical in Gulf After E.P.A. Deadline
www.nytimes.com-May 24, 2010
The effort to stanch the vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was mired by setbacks on Monday as state and federal officials feuded with BP over its failure to meet deadlines and its refusal to stop spraying a chemical dispersant.
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U.S. Wasn't Ready for Major Spill
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 24, 2010
Despite Mature Off-Shore Oil Operations, Gulf Crews Are Improvising With Chemicals, Protective Boom And Outdated Maps
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As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds
www.washingtonexaminer.com-May 24, 2010
As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn't fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble.
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Anger at White House over oil spill role
www.ft.com-May 23, 2010
The Obama administration is facing a rising tide of anger against its handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and acknowledged on Sunday that it did not have the technical capabilities to step in and fix the gusher on its own.
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Louisiana Officials Threaten Action if Spill Response Proves Inadequate
www.nytimes.com-May 23, 2010
Louisiana state and local officials continued to hammer BP and the federal agencies responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Sunday, repeatedly threatening to “take matters into our own hands” if the response fell short.
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Senate Climate Bill and Steps to Reduce U.S. Dependence on Oil
www.carnegieendowment.org-May 20, 2010
After months of negotiation, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman unveiled their long-awaited climate and energy bill last week. As efforts continue to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and midterm elections approach in November, there are doubts that movement on climate change legislation will occur.
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With Solar Valley project, China embarks on bold green technology mission
www.washingtonpost.com-May 17, 2010
Uprooting the last traces of rural life on the edge of this northern Chinese city, laborers with chain saws spent a recent morning cutting down trees to make way for a hulking factory. A big red banner trumpeted the future for what used to be farmland: "The Biggest Solar Energy Production Base in the Whole World."
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Oil spill imperils an unseen world at the bottom of the gulf
www.washingtonpost.com-May 16, 2010
In total darkness at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico lives a creature with many scuttling legs and two wiggling antennae that jut from a pinched, space-alien face. It is the isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, a scavenger of dead and rotten flesh on the mud floor of the gulf.
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A major test for President Obama: Contain the oil spill and the fallout
www.washingtonpost.com-May 15, 2010
The spreading environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to become a crisis of public confidence for President Obama, who stepped forward Friday to declare that "the system failed, and it failed badly," and included the federal government among those who "share that responsibility."
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‘Junk Shot’ Is Next Step for Leaking Gulf of Mexico Well
www.nytimes.com-May 15, 2010
Can golf balls save the gulf?
That question hangs in the air here at a BP crisis center as hundreds of engineers and scientists work to cap the undersea well that for more than three weeks has spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
www.nytimes.com-May 14, 2010
The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf.
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Obama: Time to end ‘cozy’ ties with oil firms
www.msnbc.com-May 14, 2010
Declaring himself as angry as the rest of the nation, President Barack Obama assailed oil drillers and his own administration Friday as he ordered extra scrutiny of drilling permits to head off any repeat of the sickening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers worked desperately to stop the leak that's belching out at least 210,000 gallons of crude a day.
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National Journal: How Can The U.S. Wean Itself Off Oil?
www.cfr.org-May 10, 2010
How can the U.S. reduce its dependency on oil -- both foreign and domestic?
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BP gives Congress gloomy outlook on gulf oil spill
www.latimes.com-May 05, 2010
In the worst case, the disaster could grow at 12 times the rate of current estimates, BP officials say at a Capitol Hill briefing.
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Gates Approves More National Guard To Respond To Oil Slick
www.reuters.com-May 04, 2010
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has approved requests from the governors of three additional Gulf Coast states to fund the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to respond to the oil slick, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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Gulf oil leakage could worsen if measures to stop the flow fail, executives say
www.washingtonpost.com-May 04, 2010
Under a worst-case scenario, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from a damaged offshore rig could rise to 40,000 barrels a day -- eight times the current estimated leakage -- oil-industry executives told members of Congress on Tuesday.
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Gulf Coast watches, waits for path of oil spill
http://apnews.myway.com-May 04, 2010
Cleanup and containment of a massive oil slick resumed Tuesday as winds eased in the Gulf of Mexico and people along beaches and bayous waited to find out just how badly it might damage the delicate coast.
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Oil cleanup chemicals worry environment watchdogs
www.reuters.com-May 04, 2010
Oil-dispersing chemicals used to clean up the vast BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico carry their own environmental risks, making a toxic soup that could endanger marine creatures even as it keeps the slick from reaching the vulnerable coast, wildlife watchdogs say.
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Drilling, Disaster, Denial
www.nytimes.com-May 03, 2010
It took futuristic technology to achieve one of the worst ecological disasters on record. Without such technology, after all, BP couldn’t have drilled the Deepwater Horizon well in the first place. Yet for those who remember their environmental history, the catastrophe in the gulf has a strangely old-fashioned feel, reminiscent of the events that led to the first Earth Day, four decades ago.
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Obama Promises Help, but Containing Oil Spill Is Still Talk
www.time.com-May 03, 2010
A week and a half after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank beneath the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a massive oil spill that was just beginning to reach the Gulf coastline, President Obama visited the town of Venice, La., on Sunday afternoon to check out the damage. A fishing port on the far southern reaches of Louisiana, just 40 miles from the sunken oil rig, Venice has become a locus for a massive private and public response to the accident, and Obama promised that the federal government would do its part. "Every American affected by this spill should know this: your government will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to stop this crisis," he said. "That's a commitment I'm making as President of the United States."
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
www.csis.org-May 03, 2010
This is the second installment of Critical Questions related to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drill rig and the subsequent oil spill that has resulted from the failure of the well to be capped and shut down. Readers are referred to our earlier (April 23) feature entitled Gulf Oil Rig Explosion for additional details and commentary.
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Oil disaster dims mood for Katrina victims
www.latimes.com-May 02, 2010
A massive, quickly growing oil slick steered by unpredictable winds and rough seas lapped closer to land Saturday, bearing down on a stunned gulf coastline that had been just beginning to get its swagger back after Hurricane Katrina.
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Gulf Coast Towns Brace As Huge Oil Slick Nears Marshes
www.nytimes.com-May 02, 2010
Oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico unabated Saturday, and officials conveyed little hope that the flow could be contained soon, forcing towns along the Gulf Coast to brace for what is increasingly understood to be an imminent environmental disaster.
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Pressure grows for action by BP
www.washingtonpost.com-May 01, 2010
Federal and state officials pushed oil giant BP to intensify its efforts to cap a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and to contain the slick that is threatening the shores and livelihoods of people in five states.
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Scientists watch for environmental effects of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 01, 2010
The cord-grass marshes of south Louisiana are nurseries for baby shrimp, stalking grounds for blue crabs, and barriers that slow down waves before they bite off more of the mainland. On Friday, they were becoming defenseless sponges for sticky, dark oil.
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BP Is Criticized Over Oil Spill, but U.S. Missed Chances to Act
www.nytimes.com-May 01, 2010
The Obama administration has publicly chastised BP America for its handling of the spreading oil gusher, yet a review of the response suggests it may be too simplistic to place all the blame for the unfolding environmental catastrophe on the oil company. The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so while it waited for a resolution to the spreading spill from BP.
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BP's containment problem is unprecedented
www.latimes.com-May 01, 2010
The company must stop a relentless gush of oil nearly a mile below the surface, in a situation that hasn't been dealt with before.
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Gulf Coast oil spill threatens to shut down Louisiana’s commercial fishing industry
www.latimes.com-May 01, 2010
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continued to spread Friday, Louisiana's $2.5-billion commercial fishing industry, which provides much of the country's domestic shrimp and oysters, is bracing for a virtual shutdown that could trigger shortages and price hikes for consumers nationwide.
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Unanswered Questions on the Spill
www.nytimes.com-May 01, 2010
President Obama has ordered a freeze on new offshore drilling leases as well as a “thorough review” into what is almost sure to be the worst oil spill in this country’s history — exceeding in size and environmental damage the calamitous Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
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Worst Case Scenario: Fighting the Spreading Gulf Oil Spill
www.time.com-April 30, 2010
As an environmental disaster, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just keeps getting worse. Late on Thursday, BP — the energy company that operates the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig and is financially responsible for the spill — revealed that oil was leaking from the burst well at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day, five times faster than previously estimated.
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Fire: The ‘Least Bad’ Option
www.newsweek.com-April 30, 2010
As crude oil continues to leak from a giant oil rig that sank last week in the Gulf of Mexico, officials have begun burning some of the petroleum in an effort to prevent it from reaching land. The giant oil slick is now less than three miles from the Louisiana coast, and officials say it will inevitably reach the shoreline, likely by some time Friday.
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White House: No new drilling efforts until probe of explosion is done
www.washingtonpost.com-April 30, 2010
The White House vowed Friday that no expansion of offshore oil drilling will take place until investigations are completed into a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which is sending thousands of gallons of crude oil lapping toward Louisiana's shores.
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Navy Joins Oil Spill Fight
htttp://online.wsj.com-April 30, 2010
The government called in the Navy to help contain the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as administration officials said Thursday the disaster could prompt President Barack Obama to rethink his plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas drilling.
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White House Takes A Bigger Role In The Oil Spill Cleanup
www.nytimes.com-April 30, 2010
The response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico intensified abruptly on Thursday, with the federal government intervening more aggressively as the rapidly growing slick drifted ever closer to the fragile coastline of Louisiana.
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American Power Act
www.nytimes.com-April 29, 2010
In 1860, Samuel Curtis, a Republican congressman of Iowa, sponsored a bill to create a transcontinental railroad. The debate over that public-private partnership was long and messy. Democrats said the proposal was unconstitutional. Others rightly argued that it meant huge giveaways to the rich.
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Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico May Be 5 Times Initial Estimate
www.nytimes.com-April 29, 2010
Government officials said late Wednesday night that oil might be leaking from a well in the Gulf of Mexico at a rate five times that suggested by initial estimates.
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Gulf oil spill could hit Louisiana coast Thursday night
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
A massive crude oil spill from last week's offshore rig explosion is expected to reach Louisiana's delicate coastline by Thursday night -- 24 hours ahead of a Coast Guard projection earlier in the day -- Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said.
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Gulf oil spill presents a political challenge to Obama's offshore drilling plans
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
The growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is not only an environmental danger, but also a widening political headache for President Obama, who just last month agreed to open vast stretches of the U.S. coastline to oil drilling.
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Growing Gulf of Mexico oil leak called spill of 'national significance'
www.latimes.com-April 29, 2010
Three top Cabinet officials are being sent to tour the site of the oil rig disaster. Obama is prepared to use 'all available options' to try and stop the slick, now within 16 miles of the Louisiana coast.
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Gulf spill: Worse than Exxon Valdez?
www.msnbc.com-April 29, 2010
The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ever recorded, some observers say.
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Regulators Approve First Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.
www.nytimes.com-April 28, 2010
After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light Wednesday to the nation’s first offshore wind farm, a highly contested project off the coast of Cape Cod.
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Gulf Oil Rig Explosion
www.csis.org-April 23, 2010
This week an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and caught fire. At this time, 11 crewmen on that rig are still missing. Does of this tragic accident have any implications for U.S. energy supply?
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Obama’s offshore oil drilling plan spurs push for billions in royalties
www.bostonglobe.com-April 08, 2010
President Obama’s pledge last week to open huge areas for offshore drilling does more than expand potential oil and gas production. It creates an opportunity to pressure oil companies to pay billions of dollars for past deep-water oil production if they want to drill in the new areas.
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Oil surges toward $87 as U.S. economy recovers
www.reuters.com-April 05, 2010
Oil prices rose more than 2 percent on Monday to their highest since October 2008, after data showed U.S. payrolls surged in March, the service sector expanded and pending home sales grew, as the world's top energy consumer emerges from an economic downturn.
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Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time
www.nytimes.com-March 31, 2010
The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
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Obama to clear way for offshore drilling for oil and gas, including off Va. coast, sources say
www.washingtonpost.com-March 31, 2010
The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America's coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off the Virginia shore, administration officials said Wednesday.
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Obama Clears Way for More Oil Drilling in Gulf
http://online.wsj.com-March 31, 2010
The Obama administration proposed allowing offshore oil and natural-gas exploration and development in a large swath of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, after months of criticism from Republicans who have made expanded offshore drilling a political rallying cry.
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Why the Democrats Are Saying, 'Drill Baby, Drill!'
www.newsweek.com-March 31, 2010
President Obama's decision to open up vast tracts of ocean off the Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling is making big waves. What's most interesting is that after eight years of George Bush and Dick Cheney, it's the Democrats who will end up lifting a longstanding moratorium on exploration off the East Coast.
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Obama to unveil offshore drilling plans for oil, natural gas
www.latimes.com-March 31, 2010
The proposal through 2017 will open new areas of the mid-Atlantic region, Alaska and the eastern Gulf of Mexico for production but prohibit moves off California, Oregon and Washington.
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President Obama expands offshore drilling
www.politico.com-March 31, 2010
President Barack Obama launched an ambitious plan on Wednesday to lift a decades-long moratorium on offshore oil drilling along the East Coast from Delaware to Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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John Boehner: Drilling decision falls short
www.politico.com-March 31, 2010
The top House Republican says the White House's decision to begin offshore drilling across huge expanses of ocean is a “positive step,” but he's still blasting the Obama administration for keeping areas on the West Coast closed to such exploration.
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What New Offshore Drilling Will Yield
www.cfr.org-March 31, 2010
President Barack Obama's decision (NYT) to allow new oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic Coast, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and off the north shore of Alaska is notable more for its political significance than for its substantive impact.
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Who'd Obama please with his offshore oil drilling plan?
www.mcclatchynews.com-March 31, 2010
President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he'll lift bans on new drilling for oil and natural gas off much of the U.S. coastline drew criticism from environmentalists and halfhearted welcomes from Republicans, even as Obama called it only one part of a broad strategy to reduce foreign oil dependence and enact climate-change policy.
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Nuclear Energy Guide
www.cfr.org-March 15, 2010
The U.S. nuclear industry is poised to resume construction of plants during the next decade, and nuclear power is increasingly seen as a clean-energy option for electricity. This CFR interactive explores the history of nuclear technology, its risks, and its promise.
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New 'gang' gathering on energy?
www.politico.com-March 09, 2010
The Obama administration signaled a fresh commitment to moving a climate bill this year, bringing together a bipartisan group of 14 key Senators and top cabinet officials for a White House meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
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Russia-Europe Energy Relations
www.csis.org-February 26, 2010
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Examining the Copenhagen Accord
www.cfr.org-December 21, 2009
The Copenhagen Accord, agreed to on Saturday, is neither earth-shattering nor a failure. It avoids an international political mess that appeared likely as late as Friday afternoon. It falls short of expectations mainly because expectations had been ratcheted up far beyond what was realistic. It is a meaningful step forward, but its ultimate value remains to be determined.
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Obama Presses China on Rules for Monitoring Emissions Cuts
www.nytimes.com-December 18, 2009
President Obama called on world leaders to come to an agreement on climate change, no matter how imperfect, and pressed for an accord that would monitor whether countries — primarily China — are complying with promised emissions cuts.
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Obama's Speech at the UN Climate Conference, December 2009
www.cfr.org-December 18, 2009
President Obama gave these remarks at the climate change conference in Copenhagen on December 18, 2009.
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Obama calls for climate deal, meets with Chinese premier
www.washingtonpost.com-December 18, 2009
President Obama told leaders of 193 nations here Friday that their collective will to address global warming "hangs in the balance" and urged both developed and developing countries to forge a climate change agreement he acknowledged would require compromise from all sides.
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U.S. pledges billions; China says climate pact is doubtful
www.washingtonpost.com-December 17, 2009
The United States pledged Thursday to help build a $100 billion annual fund by 2020 to help poor countries cope with climate change but said its commitment depends on whether the nations gathered here forge a substantive environmental pact that includes "transparency" on tracking emissions cuts.
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Deforestation and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
www.cfr.org-December 16, 2009
Loss of forests contributes as much as 30 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions each year--rivaling emissions from the global transportation sector. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol's offset mechanisms, explained in a CFR Backgrounder, allow credits to be given for replanting trees or establishing new forests, which capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis--but not for avoiding deforestation.
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Senate Attempts to Promote Small Nuclear Reactors Fall Short
www.heritage.org-December 14, 2009
The Senate is considering two bills that are meant to help small and modular nuclear reactor development. Unfortunately, the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative Improvement Act (S. 2052) and the Nuclear Power 2021 Act (S. 2812) would have the opposite impact.
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Security and Climate Change: Why We Need a Deal in Copenhagen
www.brookings.edu-December 08, 2009
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins this week in Copenhagen, we find a less than encouraging environment for climate legislation in the United States. The House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (Waxman-Markey) by a vote of 219-212. The companion bill in the Senate sponsored by Boxer-Kerry has been pushed back on the political agenda due to the health care debate and the jobs summit, and the president has indicated that his next priority will be financial reform.
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Opportunity at Copenhagen -- Nations Should Promote Free Trade at the Climate Conference
www.heritage.org-December 04, 2009
Copenhagen 2009 -- yet another climate conference. Fortunately, this month's conference, which had been well on its way to renewing and reinforcing the controversial Kyoto Protocol on global warming, has lost much of its momentum. Worldwide economic downturn, uncertain U.S. climate policies, and the gap between developed and developing countries in climate negotiations have actually produced a potentially positive side effect: the opportunity to enact freer trade policies that promote prosperity and job creation while protecting the environment. Heritage Foundation trade-policy expert Daniella Markheim explains why the members of Copenhagen 2009 should embrace the opportunity to support open markets -- and the chance to benefit all nations.
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How Offshore Oil and Gas Production Benefits the Economy and the Environment
www.heritage.org-November 30, 2009
Conventional wisdom holds that offshore oil and gas production harms the surrounding environment. This blanket "wisdom" ignores the fact that the largest source of marine hydrocarbon pollution is offshore natural oil seepage. It also ignores the fact that offshore oil production has lowered the amount of oil released into the ocean by reducing natural oil seepage, especially in areas with active offshore oil seeps, such as California's Santa Barbara coast. This Heritage Foundation analysis cites studies, developments, and biological facts that demonstrate often-overlooked benefits of offshore oil and gas production.
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China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions
www.nytimes.com-November 26, 2009
The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 relative to economic development. China is aiming to reduce what it calls so-called carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent compared to 2005 levels, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
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Obama to commit U.S. to deep cuts in emissions
www.sfgate.com-November 26, 2009
Putting his prestige on the line, President Obama will personally commit the United States to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
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Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target
www.nytimes.com-November 25, 2009
President Obama is pledging a provisional target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, the first time in more than a decade that an American administration has offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases, the White House announced Wednesday.
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The Clean Energy Act of 2009: A Missed Opportunity for Real Nuclear Energy Policy Reform
www.heritage.org-November 23, 2009
Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jim Webb (D-VA) recently introduced their bipartisan Clean Energy Act of 2009 (CEA 2009), which aims to create a business and regulatory environment to double nuclear power production in just two decades. While their reform efforts are laudable and necessary, most of their recommendations will not bring about their desired results.
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Discounting and Climate Change Economics: Estimating the Cost of Cap and Trade
www.heritage.org-November 19, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its preliminary analysis of the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill. It largely reheats their analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill from last summer.
Proponents of both bills often claim the EPA analyses pegs the cost per household at a postage stamp per day. However, the reality is that the costs of both bills are far from trivial.
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Discounting and Climate Change Economics: Estimating the Cost of Cap and Trade
www.heritage.org-November 19, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its preliminary analysis of the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill. It largely reheats their analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill from last summer.
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The "Kyoto II" Climate Change Treaty: Implications for American Sovereignty
www.heritage.org-November 17, 2009
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is supposed to produce a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty signed by the Clinton Administration but never sent to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent.[1] The proposed "Kyoto II" successor agreement, if crafted along the lines of the current 181-page negotiating text, poses a clear threat to American sovereignty. This threat is primarily due to the nature of the proposed treaty--a complex, comprehensive, legally binding multilateral convention.
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EXCLUSIVE: Energy bill requires doubling nuke use
www.washingtontimes.com-August 12, 2009
To satisfy House Democrats' low-cost solution to global warming, Americans would have to double their reliance on nuclear energy by 2030 - a target the nuclear industry says is unlikely and that many environmentalists and Democrats dislike.
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The Future of U.S. Climate Policy
www.cfr.org-August 12, 2009
In June 2009, the House of Representatives approved legislation that would establish a cap-and-trade program to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill now awaits action by the Senate. Meanwhile, a controversial program (NYT) for trading in used vehicles for new cars with higher fuel efficiency standards has been extended by Congress. Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, says Congress might pass U.S. climate legislation in 2010, after it finishes dealing with health care reform.
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Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality
www.aei.org-July 14, 2009
After months of hearings and backroom give-and-take, the House of Representatives on June 26 passed HR 2998, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, known as Waxman-Markey. The final draft of the bill was over 1,200 pages, and the House vote was extremely narrow: 219-212. Senate passage is uncertain. What is needed now as the Senate begins its deliberations is a clear idea of exactly what Waxman-Markey contains, how it is likely to affect the economy, and whether it will address the problem of global warming in a serious way. Our view is that the legislation is an exercise in unreality.
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Taxing Our Way to Energy Insecurity Again
www.energyxxi.org-June 18, 2009
The administration’s FY 2010 budget proposal was the opening salvo in
an effort to fund the government’s record spending via some $33 billion
in new taxes and fees exclusively on the oil and gas industry. This brings
the total sum of new taxes on this industry to more than $80 billion when the industry’s share of other general business tax increases is included.1
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Natural Security
www.cnas.org-June 11, 2009
In the 21st century, the security of nations will increasingly depend on the security of natural resources, or “natural security.” This concept paper outlines a new program of study at the Center for a New American Security to look at emerging natural resources challenges in six key areas of consumption and consequences – energy, minerals, water, land, climate change, and biodiversity – as well as the ways in which these challenges are linked together.
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Obama's energy triangulation
www.politico.com-May 12, 2009
With the possible exception of health care reform, no major issue presents more political opportunities and potential pitfalls for President Barack Obama than energy. A misstep over energy policy could cause serious economic, social and political consequences that could continue over the next decade.
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The Bias Against Oil And Gas
www.washingtonpsot.com-May 04, 2009
Considering the brutal recession, you'd expect the Obama administration to be obsessed with creating jobs. And so it is, say the president and his supporters. The trouble is that there's one glaring exception to their claims: the oil and natural gas industries. The administration is biased against them -- a bias that makes no sense on either economic or energy grounds. Almost everyone loves to hate the world's Exxons, but promoting domestic drilling is simply common sense.
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Cohen, Nunn, Applaud Obama Energy Initiative, Call for Bipartisan Support
www.csis.org-April 23, 2009
Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and former Senator Sam Nunn, praising President Obama’s call for a multinational Energy and Climate Change Forum, today sent a joint letter to the president (a copy of which below this release), presenting a set of energy recommendations and calling for bipartisan support to help the Obama Administration develop, implement, and sustain a sensible energy policy.
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Issues in International Political Economy - Looking Inward in an Age of Globalization - April 2009, Number 112
www.csis.org-April 16, 2009
The world is now experiencing a searing example of the speed at which a U.S. financial breakdown spreads globally. The concern is that most G-20 countries that together represent the bulk of world GDP and international trade are looking inward, even as it becomes increasingly evident that we are living in an age of globalization.The stress in this paper will be on the United States, although it is by no means unique in looking inward.
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The 2009 Energy Bill: Anti-Market and Anti-Consumer
www.heritage.org-April 02, 2009
On March 31, Chairman Henry Waxman (D–CA) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward Markey (D–MA) of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee introduced draft legislation that includes clean energy investment, energy efficiency mandates, a cap-and-trade program, and protectionist policies that will supposedly help the consumer cope with higher energy prices.[1]
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Greening up the Defense Department
www.armedforcesjournal.org -April 01, 2009
“Green” acquisition and environmental sensitivity may be in vogue in civilian life, but these don’t immediately come to mind when thinking of the military. High-profile disputes between the Navy and environmentalists over sonar training, in which pings might disturb whales, or between the Army and groups wanting to protect sensitive lands used for training, give the services an anti-environmental image.
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The Next Oil Shock
www.cato.org-March 26, 2009
The price of oil soon will soar again. The present price of a barrel of oil, $50 or so, is below the price needed to meet current demand for a sustained period of time, and it is well below the price needed to meet global demand as the world economy rebounds.
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Transatlantic Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Security A Report of the Global Dialogue between the European Union and the United States
www.csis.org-March 19, 2009
We are in a decisive interval for the institutions of the Euro-Atlantic community and the 32 member states that belong to either the European Union and/or NATO. Traditional concerns—security, economic, political, and societal—have become increasingly bundled into circumstances that cannot be addressed by any nation alone, however powerful, or any single institution, however influential.
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Hijacked Super Tanker Exposes Vulnerability of Energy Supplies
www.nationaldefensemagaqzine.org-March 11, 2009
The hijacking on the high seas by Somali pirates of a super tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil destined for the United States created many troubling precedents and makes the vulnerability of energy supplies quite clear.
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Federal Energy R&D: Do It All—But Differently
www.brookings.edu-March 10, 2009
With President Obama's new budget proposal calling for moderately large increases in energy research, there have been debates flaring up on this blog and elsewhere about whether the world will need radical scientific breakthroughs—and soon—to be able to slash greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by mid-century and avoid the most unacceptable impacts of climate change. On the one hand, Joe Romm, a former Clinton administration official who now blogs at Climate Progress, argues that we can make do by scaling up largely existing technologies. By contrast, a recent Energy Department task force report insisted that the nation needs a lot more than incremental advances if we want to move quickly away from fossil fuels—which means pouring a lot more money into basic scientific research.
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Coal and Climate Change--Can King Coal Clean Up?
www.aei.org-March 09, 2009
Environmentalists call it the "armpit of Washington". The Capitol Power Plant generates the energy that steams and chills the water that circulates through a web of tunnels to heat and cool the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and 19 other US government institutions. Its four smokestacks tower over densely populated and mostly poor neighbourhoods, belching sulphur dioxide, mercury, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide in a city that has repeatedly been found in violation of the Clean Air Act.
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Research Priorities for Fossil Fuels
www.rand.org-March 05, 2009
James T. Bartis of the RAND CorporationTestimony presented before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee on March 5, 2009
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A To-Do List for Secretary Chu on Nuclear Energy Policy
www.heritage.org-March 03, 2009
President Barack Obama has charged his first secretary of energy, Steven Chu, with an ambitious agenda. At a recent speech at the Department of Energy (DOE) to promote his stimulus bill, the President called on Dr. Chu to reduce America's reliance on foreign oil, create jobs, and spur innovation.[1] Interestingly, nuclear energy—the one technology that could help the President and his secretary meet these objectives—was mentioned in neither the President's speech nor his stimulus package. This is unfortunate because with the right policy reform, nuclear technology could help the nation meet each of the President's important energy objectives.
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The Long and Winding Road: Automotive Fuel Economy and American Politics
www.brookings.edu-February 25, 2009
For more than thirty years, the government of the United States has been trying to reduce the nation’s voracious consumption of petroleum by regulating the fuel economy of motor vehicles. The project has not been a notable success. As of 2007, the average fuel economy of brand new passenger vehicles in this country was, for all practical purposes, about the same as it had been twenty years earlier (under 27 miles per gallon).
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Commentary: A U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue: An Opportunity for Change or Business as Usual?
www.csis.org-February 25, 2009
A central topic of the meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada on February 19 was how to approach the climate change challenge and, in particular, how to “encourage the development of clean energy technologies.”
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Testimony of Karen Harbert on Offshore Drilling Before House Committee on Natural Resources
www.energyxxi.org-February 25, 2009
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Natural Resources
“Offshore Drilling: Industrial Perspectives on the Outer Continental Shelf’
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Energy Security as National Security: Defining Problems Ahead of Solutions
www.ensec.org-February 19, 2009
As the United States moves into a new era of governance, evident even at this early stage is the importance which is to be placed on issues of energy security in the administration of Barack Obama. The field is enticing for precisely the reason it is so difficult to address – it cuts across such a large variety of policy areas that consensus as to its vital nature often dissolves into misinterpretation and competing or redundant policy initiatives.
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The Obama Administration Should Not Delay Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
www.heritage.org-February 19, 2009
Last July, President Bush responded to public anger over $4.00 a gallon gasoline and rescinded the longstanding executive moratorium on offshore leasing for oil and natural gas. Congress followed suit by allowing its own restrictions to lapse on October 1. But now, the Obama Administration has taken steps to slow down the process of leasing these areas to energy companies, and some fear that expanded offshore drilling will be put off indefinitely. Delay would be a mistake and should be kept to a minimum, as additional domestic oil is still badly needed.
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Brazilian Ethanol Policy: Lessons for the United States
www.ensec.org-February 19, 2009
On
March 9, 2007 President Bush, in conjunction with Brazil’s President,
Lula da Silva, announced the formation of a new partnership between the
two countries. Capitalizing on the strength of the ethanol industry in
both countries, the partnership was aimed at the broad goals of
developing new ethanol production technologies, sharing resources and
promoting the use of ethanol as an alternative to fossil fuel. Brazil
is currently the world’s leading producer and exporter of ethanol and
the United States follows close behind.
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Energy Security as National Security: Defining Problems Ahead of Solutions
www.ensec.org-February 19, 2009
As
the United States moves into a new era of governance, evident even at
this early stage is the importance which is to be placed on issues of
energy security in the administration of Barack Obama.
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How Green is Thy Stimulas
www.cfr.org-February 16, 2009
The
Obama administration hopes money spent to stimulate the economy out of
recession can do double duty by advancing its green agenda.
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A Transition Plan For Securing America's Energy future
www.energyxxi.org-January 01, 2009
For
over 40 years, the United states has had an inadequate, contradictory,
and shortsighted approach with regard to our energy future. It is time
for a strategic change of course.
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Global Energy, Economic Interdependence, Iraq And the Gulf
www.csis.org-September 21, 2007
Alan
Greenspan has triggered yet another wave of global suspicion that the
US went to war to steal Iraq's oil for itself. This was not the thrust
of his book, or his later remarks, but the net impact has been to focus
the world's attention on the issue.
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