{"id":568675,"date":"2010-05-18T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85061"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:30:08","slug":"gop-blocks-hike-on-oil-spill-liability-cap-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568675","title":{"rendered":"GOP Blocks Hike on Oil Spill Liability Cap (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/84768\/murkowski-blocks-bill-to-hike-industry-liability-for-oil-spills\" >Last week<\/a> it was Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) who blocked legislation to hike the oil industry&#8217;s liability for economic damages following spills. Today, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to increase the caps,&#8221; Inhofe said on the Senate floor this morning. &#8220;[But] we don&#8217;t know just how high that should be.&#8221;<span id=\"more-85061\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as BP executives are <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/84928\/bp-ceo-downplays-significance-of-gulf-oil-spill\" >downplaying<\/a> the threat posed by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, thousands of barrels of oil and gas continue to gush from the damaged well head &#8212; though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/13\/AR2010051302563.html\" >no one seems to know<\/a> the true number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) who blocked legislation to hike the oil industry&#8217;s liability for economic damages following spills. Today, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) doing the same. &#8220;We need to increase the caps,&#8221; Inhofe said on the Senate floor this morning. &#8220;[But] we don&#8217;t know just how high that should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}