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Published: 12/1/10

Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons

(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 ...

Published: 06/4/10

BP, Coast Guard and White House All Withheld Damning Early Oil Spill Info

By  Carl Franzen - Politics Daily
BP, Coast Guard and White House All Withheld Damning Early Oil Spill Info

BP'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 ...

Published: 05/21/10

Paul: Obama's Criticism of BP 'Un-American'

By  not in system - AOL News
Paul: Obama's Criticism of BP 'Un-American'

WASHINGTON (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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