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    Economic Development and Disaster Relief Inhibited by the Jones Act

    January 8, 2013 at 5:07 pm

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    If the Jones Act was created to mitigate disasters at sea, why has it been waived during such disasters? Such a question was posed in a recent Bloomberg article. The answer is that, rather than supporting wartime goals or sustaining national security, the Jones Act now serves primarily as a … More

    Report: White House Misled Public on Gulf Spill Volume

    January 26, 2012 at 3:15 pm

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    Handout file photo shows fire boat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon off Louisiana

    According to information obtained by a liberal environmentalist group, the White House deliberately misled the public about the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010. The month after the spill, the administration announced that about 25,000 barrels per day of … More

    Senate Committee to Hold Field Hearing on Gulf Spill Recovery

    July 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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    The April 20, 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico devastated the Gulf economy, which, more than a year later, has yet to fully recover from the disaster. In en effort to explore relief efforts and “lessons learned” from the spill, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship … More

    Gas Prices Going Up, But President Obama Is Standing Still

    April 20, 2011 at 2:38 pm

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    President Barack Obama at suburban Virginia speech on 4/20/11

    The gas price headlines aren’t looking so good for Americans. Honolulu is a penny away from record gas prices. Chicago gas nears $5 a gallon. Nationally, $4 a gallon average gas may be only be a month away. There’s something that President Obama could do to help solve the problem … More

    Morning Bell: Gulf Oil Spill, One Year Later

    April 20, 2011 at 9:29 am

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    A year ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico cost the lives of 11 men and threatened untold damage to the ecosystem. It was an unprecedented disaster, and the tragic loss of life it entailed made it all the more imperative that … More

    Post-Moratorium: Where Are the Drilling Permits?

    November 3, 2010 at 12:00 pm

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    The deepwater drilling moratorium ended three weeks ago, but it could be months before the federal government issues its first new permit. In a meeting last week with members of the National Ocean Industries Association, U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement Director Michael Bromwich was vague when … More

    President’s Commission Recommends President Reconsider Drilling Ban

    August 10, 2010 at 3:30 pm

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    The President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has called on the Obama Administration to consider lifting the ban on drilling for certain rigs.  It will be interesting to see if the President listens to his own commission. These concerns were memorialized in a … More

    Is the Government to Blame for Oil Spill?

    July 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm

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    The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. In the critical first days after the explosion, the U.S. Coast Guard disregarded its own firefighting policy and might have caused the oil rig … More

    Gulf Spill Update: Gulf States Suffer Under De Facto Drilling Ban

    July 8, 2010 at 5:30 pm

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    The Gulf states thought they finally caught a break last month when a federal judge struck down the Obama administration’s deep-water oil drilling ban, but it turns out they were wrong. With the federal government holding all the cards, a de facto ban on drilling continues, as does the economic … More

    Help Has Been on the Way

    June 30, 2010 at 4:30 pm

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    The optimist in you might say, “Better late than never.” The pessimist in you might ask, “What took so long?” On June 29, over seventy days after the Gulf oil spill, the U.S. Department of State released the following statement: The National Incident Command and the Federal On Scene Coordinator … More

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    Ed Meese: We’ve Seen the Effect of “Amnesty” BeforeExperts can’t always predict exactly how public policy will affect the nation, despite our best efforts. But when it comes to immigration policy, we have tried many of the types of reforms advocated by today’s Gang of Eight—so we should consider the effects these reforms had in the past. In … MoreMore
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