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Steven Chu prematurely stopped BP’s efforts before their top kill program had completed its final two steps. – American Thinker

The Castro Regime will begin drilling off the coast of Florida next year and will go deeper than the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April.

WJLA-TV fires veteran anchor Doug McKelway after he mentioned BP donations to Obama in a report on leftist groups protesting ‘dirty oil money’ corrupting the political system. WJLA-TV and POLTICO are owned by Allbrightton communications.

BP says drilling mud pumped into its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well is holding the oil down, a major step towards permanently sealing it. -BBC

What will will they use to pass cap and trade now? Engineers are preparing to launch a so-called ‘static kill’ as early as today, shoving mud and perhaps cement into the blown-out Gulf well to make it easier to plug the gusher up forever and end the Summer of the Spill.

The four Democratic U.S. senators probing the early release of the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie bombing believe there were links to a BP oil deal, but their inquiry may have the unintended consequence of raising questions about just how strongly the Obama administration opposed the Libyan’s release.

US officials fear oil may be seeping from the ocean floor near the stricken Gulf of Mexico well, and order BP to submit a plan to lessen wellhead pressure.

The motion was denied because the government failed to show “a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted,” the appeals panel judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling. The government also “made no showing that there is any likelihood that drilling activities will be resumed pending appeal.” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he will soon issue a new order to block deepwater drilling regardless of how the court ruled and oil companies have not resumed drilling due to the legal uncertainties.

TEXAS CITY, Texas — More than two months after oil gushing from a blown-out well on the ocean floor first reached Louisiana, the relentless spread of crude has now washed up on every Gulf state after a bucket’s worth of tar balls hit a Texas beach.

British Petroleum (BP) is to blame for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, not the oil industry as a collective entity