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Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill (AP)

In this Oct. 27, 2011 photo, an underwater robot is lowered into the water to work on equipment on the sea floor, 8,000 feet below. Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before. (AP Photo/Jon Fahey)AP – Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before.


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Bachmann says she’d consider Everglades drilling (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., arrives at Idlewild Baptist Church Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)AP – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in the Everglades if it can be done without harming the environment.


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Sportsmen monitor gas drilling in Marcellus Shale (AP)

In this photo made on Thursday, June 9, 2011, members of the local chapter of the fishermans group, 'The Izaak Walton League', John Yesenosky, left, and Ken Dufalla test water samples taken from Whitely Creek in Kirby, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP – Fishermen are gearing up and hunters are taking aim at Marcellus Shale gas drilling.


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Senate blocks GOP bid to speed offshore drilling (AP)

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks with reporters following a weekly Republican policy luncheon, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2011.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, four days after President Barack Obama directed his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production.


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President Obama will increase oil and gas drilling in the US in attempt to lower fuel prices

President Obama announced Saturday that he was ramping up oil and gas drilling in the U.S. – but city drivers fed up with sky high gas prices said it was too little, too late.

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Interior allows some suspended drilling to resume (AP)

In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, a worker stands near a front loader as they prepare to move piles of sand impacted by the BP PLC oil spill on a beach in Grand Isle, La. Crews have been scouring the Gulf Coast's sandy shores for oil_digging, scraping, tilling and sifting beach after beach in their hunt. There is still an untold amount of oil in the form of gooey, largely non-toxic tar, lying under sand, mud and oyster shells along the shores, leaving the prospect that tar balls may wash up from time to time for months, if not years. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP – The Obama administration said Monday it will allow 13 companies to resume deepwater drilling without any additional environmental scrutiny, just months after saying it would require strict reviews for new drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill.


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Obama rejects drilling in eastern Gulf of Mexico (AP)

FILE - In a June 23, 2010 file photo, crews work to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla.  In a reversal, the Obama administration says it will not pursue offshore drilling in East Coast waters, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 1,, 2010 that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in the East Coast for at least the next seven years. (AP Photo/ Michael Spooneybarger, File)AP – Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation’s East Coast.


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