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\nDeepwater oil drilling permits: Freeze, six months
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\nOil lease sales off Alaska coast: Cancel
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\nOil
\nlease sales in Western Gulf: Cancel
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\nOil
\nlease sales off coast of Virginia: Cancel
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\nSafety
\nstandards: Get tough<\/p>\n
Find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n BP BP is medicore at plugging leaky oil wells, but has finger-pointing down<\/em>. The oil giant’s report Ian Urbina, writing in the New York Times<\/a>, <\/em>reports that just days before the explosion, BP The It’s Greenpeace ODrama <\/strong><\/p>\n The next two days will go a long way Here are two takes on his dicey Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com Far more Samuel Thernstrom, The president Cry them a Finally, Christine Dell’Amore, writing for National Geographic <\/em>notes a little discussed, self-destructive fallout from the If oil kills off marsh plants, <\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Climate Post: BP oil spill washes up on Potomac shores<\/a><\/p>\n Michigan: Where U.S. clean energy, emissions, efficiency policy really counts<\/a><\/p>\n Obama preaches green tech gospel to California choir<\/a><\/p>\n
\nbeatdown<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nto Congress suggested crews working for Transocean missed “warning signs” of
\nserious problems under the rig before it exploded<\/a>, and raised questions about Halliburton’s cement
\nwork. But what goes around comes around. <\/p>\n
\nchose to use a cheaper, but riskier casing for the well. And more details have begun spilling out
\nabout a heated explosion-day argument on the rig. Transocean reps wanted no part of a plan to
\nreplace heavy drilling fluid in the pipe with lighter sea water. A BP “company man” overruled them.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNew Orleans Times Picayune<\/em> is
\nstarting to lay some wood on BP too<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\nunclear whether the disaster would have been prevented had the drilling mud not
\nbeen pumped out prematurely, but the blowout would definitely have been less
\nlikely. Removing the fluid was BP’s call, and the firm needs to own up to its
\nmistakes.<\/p>\n
\nis soliciting redesigns of
\nBP’s sunny green logo<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\nin determining whether the president gets stuck in BP’s muck. Extending the drilling freeze today and
\nflying to the Gulf tomorrow may rehabilitate his feskless image. And if
\nthe “Top Kill” works, he can go all presidential and take control of the cleanup. But
\nhe’s still on the high wire. <\/p>\n
\ndilemma from a New York Times <\/em><\/a>online
\ndebate<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\ncolumnist:<\/p>\n
\nsignificant will be the perception that he (Obama) failed to “protect” us from
\nthis threat, a potentially devastating belief in a society where “protecting us
\nfrom harm” has come to be seen as the president’s overarching responsibility
\n(far higher than what the Constitution actually describes as the prime
\npresidential duty: “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution”). <\/em><\/p>\n
\nresident fellow, American Enterprise Institute:<\/p>\n
\nmust juggle competing concerns: He can correctly point to mounting evidence
\nthat both BP and Transocean cut crucial corners in their haste to finish this
\nwell, but he cannot succumb to the natural temptation to demonize drilling if
\nhe wants to preserve the opportunity for bipartisan climate and energy
\nlegislation.<\/p>\n
\nriver<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nspreading spill: it could end up doing serious damage to the oil
\nindustry’s infrastructure in the Gulf<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\nwetlands will turn to open water, putting the shallowly buried coastal
\npipelines at risk of ships strikes, storms, and corrosive salt water. Each rip
\nmeans more leaking oil, costly repairs and replacements, and in some cases, new
\nwetland-restoration projects.<\/p>\n
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