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Tag: BP
Proud serial apologizer Joe Barton repeats confused tendency on Twitter
After apologizing to BP for the $20 billion victims’ escrow fund, Rep. Joe Barton unapologized via a retraction. But now he’s unapologizing for that,...
Gardner to soak up funds at event hosted by BP lobbyist
If he’s as “spineless” as Cory Gardner’s race-baiting critics say he is, it’s probably really hard to say no to oil and gas money...
VIDEO: DeGette grills BP’s Hayward on Deepwater cementing shortcuts
Colorado U.S. Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette took a little less than ten minutes Thursday as a member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee to...
Oil spill Thursday news: BP killed ‘drill baby drill’
The Florida Independent posts a great quick and dirty round up of today's Gulf oil catastrophe news. Florida is calling for a "claims process...
Graham wiggles away from any near-term climate or energy bills
Well that just about does it for climate legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells CongressDaily (subscription. req’d) that he’ll vote against the climate bill...
Gulf update: Gusher well likely blown out, another well steadily leaking
In case you missed the latest from the Gulf, from which no good news comes these days, Florida Sen. Ben Nelson told MSNBC that...
Gallup: Obama seen as ineffective on oil spill and immigration
The old adage that "in politics perception is reality" may be playing out on multiple fronts for the Obama administration as it battles not...
WashPo: BP’s gusher ‘more or less’ capped
The Washington Post reports the first good news to come from BP's gusher zone in the Gulf. It's not unqualified good news but it's...
Florida coast threatened by oil gusher; BP may now do nothing...
The Florida Independent reports in its daily oil-spill round-up that the Gulf side panhandle is now threatened directly by the British Petroleum oil gusher,...
Wadhams rips Ritter for invoking BP spill in Colorado drilling debate
FOX News last week poached the lede from the third installment of a Colorado Independent series on Gov. Bill Ritter’s oil and gas drilling...