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Obama extends stop on deepwater wells
Escalating his administration’s response to the disastrous Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday that a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits will be continued for six months while a presidential commission…
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Voices: How would you help stop the BP Gulf oil spill?
Creative answers from second-graders.
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Obama visits beach threatened by Gulf oil spill, says ‘we’re going to keep at it’ to stop leak
GRAND ISLE, La. – Intent on showing firm command of a deepening Gulf Coast crisis, President Barack Obama inspected a fouled beach, took in what he called “heartbreaking stories” of the catastrophe and declared “we’re going to keep at it” until largest U.S. oil spill is stopped and cleaned up.
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GOP to Tampa couple: Stop using party name on oil spill Web site
Don and Joyce Weaver wanted to bring attention to concerns that the nation’s current energy policies and practices are destroying the earth’s delicate ecosystem. So , the day Tampa officials learned the city will host the 2012 GOP convention the Tampa couple purchased the domain name www.GOP2012Tampa.com and set up a collage of photos from the Deepwater Horizon …
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Obama says he, not BP, in charge of effort to stop disastrous oil leak in Gulf _ ‘It’s my job’
WASHINGTON – On the defensive more than five weeks into the nation’s worst-ever oil spill, President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that his
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Live Video: Watch BP’s attempt to stop the oil gusher in the Gulf.
View live underwater coverage of BP’s “top kill” effort at the oil spill site in the Gulf
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“Top Kill” gets green light to stop oil spill
The Coast Guard has given BP approval to try to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy mud into the well, but there’s no word yet on when the attempt will start.
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BP expects decision soon on attempt to stop oil
BP was still running tests and expected to decide Wednesday morning if it will go ahead with an effort to choke off its oil gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud and cement, Chief Executive Tony Hayward said.
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Coast Guard says BP doing all it can to stop spill
The Coast Guard says BP is exhausting every technical means possible to stop the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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