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UN calls on BP to restate CSR pledge
Jessica Shankleman, BusinessGreen , Friday 18 June 2010 at 12:52:00 BP currently remains a member of United Nations Global Compact, requiring it to take a precautionary approach to environmental risk The office of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has called on BP to step up its “lagging” commitment to the initiative in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil giant is …
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Hernando sheriff flies over oil spill, calls for more local preparations
The sheriff’s aerial tour from Pinellas to the Panhandle offers a new perspective.
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Louisiana governor calls drilling moratorium a ‘man-made disaster’
President Obama has issued a moratorium on deep sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP spill, but many residents of Grand Isle, a town on a barrier island off Lousiana, say this has the potential to become a ‘man-made disaster’ if oil companies leave the Gulf to drill elsewhere.
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BP Uses ‘Junk Shot,’ Calls Oil Spill a ‘Catastrophe’ (Update2)
May 28 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc added golf balls and rubber scraps to the mud it was pumping into its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well in an effort to stop the spill that Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward called an “environmental catastrophe.”
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Interior secretary calls for splitting offshore-drilling agency in two
In the wake of the BP oil spill, Ken Salazar says he’ll break the Minerals Management Service into two agencies. The MMS was implicated in a series of ethics scandals in 2008. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday he will split the troubled agency that regulates offshore drilling in two, the first in what he promised would be a series of moves to improve safety regulation in response to …

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White House Calls For Oil Spill Law Update RTT News … said that the oil spill resulting from the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the need for updates to the law. … BP Oil Leak Containment Actions Are Still OngoingDaily Top Trends Gulf spill provokes worries of unbelievably bad' damageKansas City Star Gulf Winds Turn on BP as Oil Containment Plan SnarlsBusinessWeek CNM News Network –New York Times –Entertainment and Showbiz! all 22,772 news articles »

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SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION Gov. Charlie Crist calls special legislative … MiamiHerald.com Crist said that because of the Gulf oil disaster, “it's appropriate for the people of Florida'' to have a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment to … Florida Gov. Charlie Crist prepares legal fight against Gulf oil spill (Video)Examiner.com Florida Forms Gulf Oil Spill Advisory CouncilGov Monitor Environmental, financial 'siege' challenges Florida officials facing untamed …Palm Beach Post Palm Beach Post –The Jacksonville Observer –Naples Daily News all 266 news articles »

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