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Heat turned up on Barton; call for him to quit energy panel post comes from GOP
WASHINGTON – Democrats sought to make Rep. Joe Barton the face of Republican policies on Friday after his apology to oil giant BP, and another GOP colleague called for the Arlington lawmaker to give up his top post on the House energy committee.
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Bob Graham says he expects White House panel to look for ways to sustain deepwater oil drilling industry
Bob Graham, a Democrat, and William Reilly, a Republican, will lead the seven-member commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, co-chairman of the White House commission investigating the BP oil spill in the Gulf…
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AP source: Obama to meet oil spill panel chairmen
President Barack Obama planned to meet Tuesday with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating BP’s catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Obama to meet oil spill panel chairmen Tuesday
President Barack Obama plans to hold his first meeting with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barack Obama – Gulf of Mexico – Oil spill – United States – President
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US President Barack Obama is to set up a commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The move’s been used in the wake of other national disasters. It comes after warnings the leaking oil may reach the Florida coastline. BP, which ran the rig, has since managed to attach a pipe to contain the leak. However, experts warn it could face a clean up bill of billions.

FULL tinyurl.com UNCENSORED SINKING OIL RIG functionaries are mobilizing for a cleanup procedure in case a large oil spill occurs, in what has become one of the worst industry disasters in decades.later listing for most of Wednesday, the 0 million platform 41 miles off the Coast of Louisiana settled in 5000 feet of pee at about 10 am Thursday. Seventeen people were injured, and 11 are notwithstanding missing from the explosion. The rest of the crew of 126 filed into lifeboats or jumped nearly 100 feet from the political platform before being pulled from the water by Coast Guard deliverance crews. As the intense fire burned the spewing oil off on Wednesday, early indications were that the set up fire didn’t present significant peril to the coastal ecosystem. But with the semi now sunk and the fire out, concerns are now growing that the post canned mirror a deep-irrigate spill caused by a fire on the West Atlas semi off Australia last year, which environmentalists likened to a “disaster movie.”
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Gulf oil spill: President Obama names panel to lead federal investigation Los Angeles Times (blog) Since then, thousands of barrels of oil have spewed into the gulf daily in an environmental disaster of untold proportions. The company and outside experts … Latest updates and pictures from the Gulf oil spillExaminer.com BP Oil Spill Kills Birds and Other Animals on the Gulf CoastTaipan Publishing Group Gulf Oil Disaster: A Transatlantic Pollution Catastrophe LoomsCenter for Research on Globalization Louisville Courier-Journal –Palm Beach Post –Federal News Service (subscription) all 7,376 news articles »

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-05-12 15:42 House panel says rig’s blowout preventer was faulty
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives investigation subcommittee said on Wednesday that it had uncovered significant problems with the blowout preventer on BP’s oil well that may have contributed to the rig explosion and oil spill spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. At a hearing on the oil spill, Representative Henry Waxman said the blowout preventer had a leak in its …

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WDAM – Channel 7 – Serving Hattiesburg, Laurel and the Pine BeltScientific panel to probe oil spill
WASHINGTON (AP) – A scientific panel of the National Academy of Engineering will conduct a separate investigation of what went wrong at the BP PLC drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gulf oil spill lawsuits may be heard by panel of judges MiamiHerald.com He is a member of the Gulf Oil Disaster Recovery Group, which cleared a major hurdle for fishermen in federal court on Friday. The group won a temporary … and more »

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