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Feds warned company in Mich. spill about pipeline (AP)

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AP – U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday.

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Feds warned company in Mich. spill about pipeline
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Congress to probe Michigan oil spill (Reuters)

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Congress to probe Michigan oil spill
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Ecuador inks deal to protect oil field in national park (AFP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:37:12 +0000

AFP – Ecuador said Saturday it had reached a deal with the United Nations Development Program under which donor countries will compensate Quito for leaving oil reserves in a national park untouched.

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Ecuador inks deal to protect oil field in national park
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Oil spill mars UC Berkeley’s BP-funded research (AP)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:00:44 +0000

AP – BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley’s research partnership with the British company, with activists on the famously liberal campus demanding a severing of ties.

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Oil spill mars UC Berkeley’s BP-funded research
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar tours rigs, keeps drill ban (AP)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:21:35 +0000

AP – The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana’s coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.

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AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar tours rigs, keeps drill ban
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House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate (AP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:42:33 +0000

AP – The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a liability cap for oil spills, but a partisan fight in the Senate will likely delay action on a response to the Gulf oil spill until Congress returns from its summer recess.

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House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate
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New BP boss faces up to massive Gulf oil clean-up (AFP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:05:52 +0000

AFP – Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley has vowed that the firm would stand by Gulf residents for years to come, as it prepared to scale back oil spill clean-up efforts and move to a new phase.

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New BP boss faces up to massive Gulf oil clean-up
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Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil spill (AP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:57:45 +0000

AP – Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained.

Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase (AP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:47:16 +0000

AP – BP’s new boss says it’s time for a “scaleback” in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase
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Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline (AP)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:42:09 +0000

AP – An environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.

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Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline
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