October 12, 2009 NOAA RAISES RED FLAGS ON AGGRESSIVE OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN — Exclusion Zones, Buffers and Oil Spill Protections Would Scale Back Lease Schedule
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October 1, 2009 DON’T EXPECT NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES UNDER OBAMA — NOAA Chief Says No Plans to Even Begin Considering New Ocean Reserves
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November 11, 2008 PROBE DEMANDED INTO SHUTDOWN OF BP ALASKA OIL SPILL CASE — Senior EPA Agent Charges Criminal Investigation Truncated and Fines Slashed
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August 13, 2008 REVOLVING DOOR WOES MOUNT AT FEDERAL MINERALS AGENCY — Following Guilty Plea MMS Director Warns Workers to Expect More Shoes to Drop
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May 20, 2008 SHELL’S REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS U.S. ARCTIC DRILLING PROGRAM — Oil Company Grabs Top Agency Managers to Push What They Used to Regulate
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May 15, 2008 U.S. TRUSTING OIL COMPANIES TO SAFEGUARD ARCTIC WILDLIFE — Industry Permit Plans Not Subjected to Required Peer-Review or Monitoring
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April 10, 2008 U.S. OFFSHORE LEASING PREMISED ON FUTURE OF CHEAP OIL — Planning Assumes $30 a Barrel Oil to Minimize Potential Environmental Impacts
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March 20, 2008 OIL DEAL FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE ON FAST TRACK — Yukon Flats Land Exchange Tied to Oil Development but No Time for Appraisals
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February 19, 2008 BOWHEAD WHALE IMPERILED BY ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS — Scientific Warnings on Oil Spills and Seismic Noise Disregarded to Speed Lease Sales
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February 13, 2008 ARCTIC OCEAN OIL REVIEWS SOFT-PEDALED EXXON VALDEZ — Oil Spill Dangers to Wildlife Minimized to Keep Lease Sales on Schedule
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February 4, 2008 LEAKED E-MAILS MAY SINK ARCTIC OFFSHORE LEASE SALES — Officials Scramble to Suppress Scientific Dissent over Bush Arctic Oil Initiative
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January 24, 2008 INVASIVE SPECIES THREAT FROM ARCTIC OFFSHORE DRILLING IGNORED — Interior Purged Scientific Concerns about Introduction of Exotics in Arctic Waters
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January 21, 2008 INTERIOR STIFLES POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS FROM ARCTIC DRILLING — Listing Delay Blocks Safeguards Urged by Scientists Contrary to Agency Testimony
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January 17, 2008 INTERIOR WITHHOLDING KEY DOCUMENTS ON ARCTIC DRILLING — Shell Plans for LNG and Tanker Traffic in Chukchi Sea Barred from Lease Review
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