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Big, wealthy oil companies like BP are usually expected to pay to the cleanup costs themselves. But that still leaves the cost of all the indirect damage to fisheries and wildlife habitats in the area. In that case, under current law, an offshore rig operator is liable for up to $75 million in damages. After that, the federal government picks up the tab, using an oil spill liability trust fund that's paid for by a tiny tax on oil (amounting to one-tenth of 1 percent of the price).

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The profound risk to our national and economic security posed by the prospect of the world's sudden loss of access to Persian Gulf oil contributed greatly to the strategic miscalculations and public deceptions that led to our costly invasion of Iraq...

If anyone still believes we must drill, baby, drill offshore -- aside from Bill Kristol, that is, who wants to sink wells even closer to precious coastal wetlands -- then perhaps it is time to consider again the potential benefits of nationalization. After all, there is one country that has established an unrivaled record for environmental safety while exploiting its offshore petroleum reserves. That would be Norway, which created the company now known as Statoil Hydro as a fully state-owned entity and still controls nearly two-thirds of the company's "privatized" shares.

27 waivers or exemptions from in-depth environmental studies were given to Gulf Coast oil companies...AFTER the BP oil spill in April 2010? Does anyone know what these 27 waivers consisted of? Were they substantive, either individually, or as a whole? What agency or agencies granted them?

A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by environmental and Native American groups to stop exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Alaska that could begin this summer.

Interior Department continues to issue "categorical exclusions" for oil drilling, administration official acknowledges: 

Narrated by Ed Asner.

"BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region"

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could readily become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. 

insane plan to choke off other wetlands with toxic mud pies ... 12 dredges already lined up to begin erosion work ... benefits flow to Army Corp of Engineers, engineering/construction contractors, local firms supplying offshore oil drilling

House Panel Examines Gulf Coast Oil Spill

NPR's Richard Harris has learned that much more oil, 70,000 barrels a day or more than ten times the official estimate, is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon pipe, based on scientific analysis of the video released Wednesday.

"Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill"

Conservatives have dubbed the spill "Obama's Katrina." But the roots of the disaster, which could potentially have been prevented by enhanced safety measures, stretch back to the George W. Bush years. During that era, Interior became a revolving door haven for industry lobbyists. MMS developed a hands-off approach to regulation and was known for its deference to the companies it was supposed to be policing.