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Is Obama's Oil Spill Panel Biased Against Drilling?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyBack in May, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating a seven-member commission to recommend how we might prevent future oil spills. He then ordered a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling (which has now been overturned twice by the courts). In June, he asked Congress for $15 million to finance the commission. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling convened its first public meetings in New Orleans this week to "hear directly from the people of the Gulf Coast whose lives and livelihoods have been so profoundly affected by the BP ...
Is BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Our Environmental 9/11?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyFor five weeks now -- although it sure feels longer -- we've been arguing over whether this BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is or is not Obama's Katrina. But in South Louisiana, that comparison lost its juice a while ago. "This is worse than Katrina,'' shrimper Floyd Robin told Politics Daily's Ben Sandmel. Now a worst-case corporate cockup -- potentially compounded by whatever loyal American forgot to change the batteries on the blowout preventer -- is looking more by the hour like our environmental 9/11. I know that's a risky comparison, because of all we lost that day, both in terms of ...
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