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Interior Chief Had Common Ground With Oil Industry
2013-01-16 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: As oil spewed from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pledged to keep a boot on the neck of BP Plc (BP/) to get it to plug the leak and clean the mess. Then he halted new deepwater drilling. Environmental advocates cheered those actions. Over the next two years, Salazar took a more conciliatory approach with the energy industry, lifting the ban in the Gulf a few months later, agreeing to allow exploration in the Arctic and setting a plan for offshore production...
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