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Delusional Thinking in the Senate
- New York Times
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8/1/2006 |
| Almost six months to the day after President Bush urged Congress in his State of the Union address to help break America’s addiction to imported oil, the Senate approved a bill yesterday that would do nothing to cure that addiction and could actually make it worse. | |
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No Drilling Off Our Coast
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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5/17/2006 |
| Lifting the 25-year-od ban on new offshore drilling for natural gas is a bad enough idea on its own. But a proposal scheduled to be debated Thursday by the House is as devious as it is dreadful. Because natural gas is rarely found by itself — it's usually found in the same place as oil — the provision could increase the possibility of oil drilling off California and other coastal states. | |
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Offshore Drilling Backers Smell Victory
- Washington Post
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2/21/2006 |
| For decades, drilling for oil and natural gas off of much of the U.S. coastline has been off limits. But this year, with Congress facing high energy prices and a fresh lobbying push from oil companies and their supporters, even drilling opponents acknowledge that they may lose their fight to keep bans in place. | |
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Bills Before Congress Revisit Coastal Drilling
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2/17/2006 |
| Anxious about high energy prices, lawmakers from both parties are launching a new, more determined drive to relax the long-standing ban on new drilling off most U.S. coasts. | |
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Altered Oceans
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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10/3/2006 |
| A five-part series on the crisis in the seas. | |
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Another Round Begins in the Fight Over Offshore Drilling
- Congressional Quarterly
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1/21/2007 |
| Just over a month after the 109th Congress passed last year's only major energy bill, some lawmakers are already exploring ways to dramatically widen that measure, by expanding drilling elsewhere along U.S. coasts. | |
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Sewage spills are a summer bummer for beachgoers
- LA Times (new window)
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07/29/2008 |
| The L.A. and San Gabriel rivers are like 'big latrines' that dump into Long Beach harbor, a city health official says. Severe sewage contamination has forced four beach closures so far this summer. | |
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The Big Pander to Big Oil
- The New York Times (new window)
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06/19/2008 |
| It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. | |
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