Interior Department sets new rules for offshore drilling, a step toward lifting deepwater ban

Interior Dept. sets new offshore drilling rules

Obama urged to seek spill penalties to pay for Gulf coast restoration, help states after spill

Obama endorses using fines for Gulf rehabilitation

AP source: No negotiations under way between Obama administration, BP over possible settlement

AP source: No administration negotiations with BP

APNewsBreak: Congressman says BP, Obama administration discussing oil spill fine settlement

APNewsBreak: BP, feds in talks over spill fines

Congressman says BP, Obama administration trying to reach settlement on oil spill fines

Congressman: BP, feds in talks over spill fines

Obama urged to seek spill penalties to pay for Gulf coast restoration after oil spill

Obama urged to use spill fines to restore Gulf

With well killed, BP works to determine its own estimate of how much oil spilled in Gulf

BP works on own estimate for amount of oil spilled

EPA investigates 40-day benzene release at BP’s Texas City refinery, demands disclosure

EPA investigates release at BP’s Texas refinery

Environmental worries place scrutiny on wildfire retardant drops in Colorado and the West

Fire retardant drops come under scrutiny in West

Here’s a switch: Murkowski talks up Senate seniority in bid for another term from Alaska

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US ending an easy path to oil riches in announcing tougher scrutiny of deepwater drilling

US is toughening scrutiny of deepwater drilling

Interior halts exemptions from environmental reviews for deepwater drilling

Interior halts deepwater environmental exemptions

Gulf oil spill, record high temperatures fail to sway votes on energy legislation

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‘Smell tests’ leave bad taste in mouths of Louisiana fishermen who harbor contamination fears

La. fishermen wrinkle their noses at ’smell tests’

Gulf spill lacks transformational punch of 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill

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Reid unveils pared-down energy and oil bill following collapse of climate legislation

Reid unveils pared-down energy and oil bill

Senate Democrats focus on Gulf oil spill response after giving up on comprehensive energy bill

Senate Democrats turn focus to Gulf spill response

Senate Democrats give up on comprehensive energy bill, focus on Gulf oil spill response

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EPA takes new look at natural gas drilling, water issues key to nation’s energy future

EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues

Nevada GOP candidate calls BP’s $20 billion compensation program a ’slush fund’

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Wildlife regulators found potential Gulf oil spills posed low risk to endangered species

Wildlife agency predicted low risk from oil spills

Deal being finalized in lawsuit alleging turtles were killed when BP burned oil from Gulf well

Deal being finalized in lawsuit over Gulf turtles

Judge: Deal reached in lawsuit alleging turtles killed in BP’s controlled oil burns in Gulf

Deal reached in lawsuit alleging turtles burned

Wildlife groups claim sea turtles dying in BP oil burns, ask federal judge to intervene

Lawsuit claims turtles are dying in BP oil burns

Senate panels requires strong oil spill response plans, removes limits on liability

Senate panels advance oil spill bill

WASHINGTON — Congress began advancing legislation Wednesday that imposes new safeguards on offshore oil drilling in hopes of preventing a repeat of the devastating spill that has brought environmental and economic havoc to the Gulf coast.

Senate panel requires strong oil spill response plans, removes limits on liability

Senate panel advances oil spill bill

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has voted to require stronger oil spill response plans and to remove limits on a company’s liability against economic harm.

Scientists to whisk some 70,000 turtle eggs away from oil spill in rare effort to save species

Some 70,000 turtle eggs to be whisked far from oil

Obama pushes senators to find common ground to pass energy legislation

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Senators willing to scale back energy bill to find compromise as Obama pushes for legislation

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Senate Judiciary Committee advances bill to toughen anti-pollution law

Senate panel advances anti-pollution bill

WASHINGTON — The nation would impose tougher penalties on polluters under legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Some oil spill events from Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Some oil spill events from Saturday, June 19, 2010

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Some oil spill events from Friday, June 18, 2010

US President Barack Obama

Oil industry: Gulf spill doesn’t indicate need to change environmental reviews of drilling

Industry: Caution on environmental drill reviews

Two big jobs: Spill recovery chief to split time as Navy boss, puzzling some environmentalists

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New EPA analysis says Senate climate bill would cost households 22 to 40 cents a day

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Senate to vote on GOP-led move to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gases