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Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- Don't drill, baby, don't drill. Reversing its pre-BP oil spill disaster position, the Obama administration announced today that it will not engage in offshore drilling on the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, according to The Associated Press. The original policy, announced three weeks before the gulf oil spill, would have permitted authorized drilling from the Delaware coast to waters near central Florida, as well as in northern Alaska. The new policy, however, does maintain the possibility for drilling near Alaska. "Our revised strategy lays out a ...
Public Still Down on Obama's Response to Oil Spill
By not in system - AOL News(June 17) -- Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the way President Obama has handled the massive oil spill and two-thirds say he has not been tough enough on BP despite his success in getting the oil giant to commit to a $20 billion fund to pay damages to individuals and businesses harmed by the disaster, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted June 16 after his Oval Office speech. ...
Carl-Henric Svanberg: 9 Things You Need to Know About BP's Hot Seat-Dodging Chairman
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyCarl-Henric Svanberg, BP's chairman, has remained in the shadows ever since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, even as the company has readily offered up chief executive Tony Hayward as the public whipping boy for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But today, Svanberg will finally be forced into the spotlight when he meets with President Barack Obama, joined by Hayward and two other BP executives. In anticipation of the event, Surge Desk has prepared a quick tip sheet on the erstwhile stealth chairman. 1. He's got unfortunate timing. Svanberg became BP's chairman on Jan. 1, ...
Obama Has Not Been Tough Enough on BP, 7 of 10 Americans Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs President Obama prepares to make a nationwide address Tuesday night on the Gulf oil spill, 71 percent of Americans say he has not been tough enough on BP and a majority rate the job he is done in response to the spill as poor or very poor, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted June 11-13. The poll result comes despite vigorous efforts of the Obama administration to counter perceptions it has not been responded adequately, whether it is has been Obama's four trips to the Gulf since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig or something as small as Obama saying in a TV ...
Obama Sees Light Ahead for Oil-Damaged Gulf Coast
By not in system - AOL NewsTHEODORE, Ala. (June 14) -- In a newly optimistic tone, President Barack Obama promised Monday that "things are going to return to normal" along the stricken Gulf Coast and the region's fouled waters will be in better shape than before the catastrophic BP oil spill. He declared Gulf seafood safe to eat and said his administration was redoubling inspections and monitoring to make sure it stays that way. And his White House said Monday it had wrested apparent agreement from BP PLC to set up an independent, multibillion-dollar compensation fund for people and businesses suffering from the ...
BP, Coast Guard and White House All Withheld Damning Early Oil Spill Info
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyBP's communication with the public over the course of the oil spill disaster hasn't exactly been the most forthcoming, but newly surfaced documents and video footage from the onset of the crisis indicate it's not alone in that: The company, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Obama Administration all deliberately obscured the true seriousness of the situation from the country. In damning video footage suppressed for 20 days but obtained this week by ABC News, three separate leaks can be clearly seen pouring oil in the first few days after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon on April ...
After 'Top Kill' Fails, BP Turns to Another Strategy to Cap Gulf Oil Well
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyBP is now turning to another strategy to cap the out-of-control gusher in the Gulf of Mexico after saying that its three day effort to plug the well with a "top kill" of heavy mud and junk had failed. The "top kill" was the latest in efforts that failed to contain the spill which began six weeks ago after the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. BP engineers had first attempted with no success to fix the well's blowout preventer using submarine robots and the same fate met a plan to plug the flow by lowering a containment dome over the well. BP will now try to use the robots to ...
Paul: Obama's Criticism of BP 'Un-American'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 21) -- Kentucky's Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as putting "his boot heel on the throat of BP" and "really un-American." Paul's defense of the oil company came during an interview in which he tried to explain his controversial take on civil rights law, an issue that has overtaken his campaign since his victory in Tuesday's GOP primary. "What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,'" Rand said in an interview with ABC's "Good ...
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