Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is officially playing hardball with the Obama administration over the six-month ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Landrieu announced Thursday afternoon she will block Obama’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew, until the president lifts the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling is lifted “or significantly modified.”
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In its recent and acclaimed series on the vast network of U.S. intelligence agencies and contractors, the Washington Post found:
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Louisiana State Banking Chairman and well-regarded economist Joseph Mason released the following statement ahead of the President’s job creation proposals to be released in Cleveland later today:
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The Obama administration has effectively banned two kinds of off-shore drilling — deep-water and shallow-water — says Dan Kish of the Institute for Energy Research:
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Is the Obama Administration finally seeing the light on the deep-water drilling moratorium? At least one appointee seems to get it. From E&E News:
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It’s “The Obama Recovery Summer” – if you happen to live in Egypt, anyway:
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President Obama was dealt another court setback yesterday eventing when an appeals panel refused to reinstate the drilling moratorium, pending the outcome of a trial on its legality.
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President Obama is fighting more than just one state in court. With Louisiana facing an economic catastrophe because of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep-water drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and the Obama Administration have asked a federal court to reinstate his moratorium on deep-water drilling, the New York Times reports.
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Yesterday’s court decision suspending Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s moratorium on deepwater oil exploration has drawn fire because of past and possible current stock holdings by the presiding federal judge, Martin Feldman, in oil services companies.
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Judge Martin Feldman’s preliminary injunction against the deep-water drilling moratorium noted the dissents of experts who said that the Obama Administration “misrepresented” their opinions when the moratorium was announced.
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