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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The Obama administration, trying a new approach, is battling to maintain a moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling, despite two court setbacks and protests in the region that the work-stoppage will kill jobs. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has issued a new moratorium that is not based on water depth but rather on the type of rig or floating facility used for deep-sea drilling activities. If it survives legal scrutiny, the ban will remain in effect until Nov. 30. Salazar said evidence is growing "every day of the industry's inability in the deep water to contain a catastrophic blowout, ...
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