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Oil hits all Gulf states; Texas tar balls found
(AP:TEXAS CITY, Texas) A bucket’s worth of tar balls that hit a Texas beach means that crude oil has now washed up in every U.S. state on the Gulf of Mexico, more than two months after oil gushing from a blown-out well on the ocean floor first reached Louisiana.
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Obama administration fights to keep deepwater drill ban
The oil drilling industry goes head-to-head with the Obama administration in court on Thursday over the White House effort to suspend deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for six months in the wake of the catastrophic BP Plc well blowout.
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Legislation to extend federal flood insurance program is headed to Obama’s desk
Legislation to extend the federal flood insurance program through Sept. 30 is headed to President Barack Obama for his expected signature. After weeks of delay, and political posturing, the Senate approved the extension Wednesday night by voice vote. “Thank God,”…
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La. Sen. Mary Landrieu seeks up to $1B a year for Gulf restoration, but White House mum
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sen. Mary Landrieu is pushing for up to $1 billion a year to restore Louisiana ‘s battered and oily coastline.
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UPDATE: Senate Agrees to Begin Debate On Small Business Tax Bill
UPDATE: Senate Agrees to Begin Debate On Small Business Tax Bill
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Mabus to assess damage
He begins his first visit to the Gulf Coast as head of the Gulf Coast Restoration Plan.
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First thoughts: Petraeus and July 2011 in the spotlight
Petraeus and (more importantly) that July 2011 date take center stage beginning today at 9:30 am ET… 30 minutes earlier in the Senate building next door, Kagan and the senators can’t read from a script from anymore; it’s question time… Senate Democrats face another tough clim …
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Judge who killed drilling ban a hero in Louisiana
Along the troubled waters of the Gulf of Mexico , U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman has become a bit of a folk hero. He’s the Ronald Reagan appointee who overturned the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil exploration, siding with oil service companies and the state of Louisiana, which argued that the moratorium — coming on the heels of the gusher in the Gulf — would …
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Essence Fest helps sustain New Orleans amid spill
For all the talk of the BP oil spill scaring tourists away from Louisiana and the beaches of Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida, one city in the region has stayed full of visitors since the crisis began.
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Senate panels advance oil spill bill
Congress began advancing legislation Wednesday that imposes new safeguards on offshore oil drilling in hopes of preventing a repeat of the devastating spill that has brought environmental and economic havoc to the Gulf coast.
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