"Ultimately, what this spill shows is that offshore oil drilling simply cannot be done safely, " Sen.
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John McCain recently announced he supported offshore oil drilling, reversing his previous stance.
Pelosi on Wednesday said the president was perpetrating a "hoax" by pushing for more offshore oil drilling.
The complexity of offshore oil drilling or credit-default swaps makes them opaque to all but a select few.
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Obama will softpedal the two industries that have suffered unprecedented disasters during his term offshore oil drilling and nuclear power.
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States could earn more from offshore oil drilling in their waters, and would be able to veto drilling plans.
Earlier today, the White House Natural Resources Committee voted to block BP from getting future offshore oil drilling leases.
He called on Congress to allow offshore oil drilling, saying the need to lower crude and gas prices made it urgent.
He has become a hawk on offshore oil drilling and would push hard for the building of new nuclear power plants.
President Bush called on Congress Wednesday to allow offshore oil drilling, saying the need to lower crude and gas prices made it urgent.
Just one week after calling for renewed offshore oil drilling, McCain took that message to one of the scenic shorelines - Santa Barbara, California.
But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.
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Among the sticking points: a proposal to lift a 1981 ban on offshore oil drilling and open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska for exploration.
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But the timing of Bush's support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain's efforts to distance himself from the embattled White House.
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Congress quietly lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday, opening the vast waters of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas companies eager to exploit the area's substantial energy resources.
Still, there is likely Republican support for the bill and the Obama Administration has embraced increased support for new nuclear reactors and expanded offshore oil drilling in an effort to bring Republicans along.
Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden that allowing offshore oil drilling is "one of the most important steps we can take" to reduce that burden.
In the midday speech, Obama will attempt to counter Republican demands for domestic oil development including more offshore oil drilling that have resonated with voters finding higher prices at the gas pump in the wake of unrest in the Middle East.
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To placate conservatives, he promoted nuclear power and recently came out for more offshore oil-drilling.
Based in Bermuda, SeaDrill Limited is an offshore drilling contractor providing worldwide offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry.
The backstory: since the 1970s the Land and Water Conservation Fund (which, only semi-ironically, gets its money from federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling) has given money to local governments for parks.
The House Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved an amendment to bar new offshore oil and gas drilling permits to BP or any other company with a significant history of violating worker safety or environmental law.
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One man who is calling for Congress to stop its partisan fighting and work together on offshore drilling is oil man T.
The senator from Arizona outlined an energy plan that would include lifting the ban on offshore drilling for oil, a reversal of his position during his 2000 campaign.
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Suppose for a moment that Congress listens to President Bush's remarks Wednesday and removes the decades-old ban on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.
While the major oil companies were focused on drilling for oil far offshore in 5, 000 or 8, 000 or 10, 000 feet of water, Moffett and McMoRan embarked on a prodigious challenge of their own by drilling to unprecedented depths of 33, 000 feet and more in shallow water.
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In 2010, President Obama appointed Mr. Reilly Co-Chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
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That is why, on Friday, I signed an executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
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At the end of June, President Obama announced that Richard Lazarus would serve as executive director of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
The letter from Fred Bartlit Jr. to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling said that tests in February on a cement slurry similar to what was used on the Macondo well showed instability -- and that both companies had the data.
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