Oil spill fuels opposition to drilling off New Jersey coast
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Opponents of a federal plan to allow drilling off mid-Atlantic
states said Friday that the massive spill in the Gulf Coast shows
why expanding oil leases is a bad idea for New Jersey.
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Pingree: No Oil Drilling in Gulf of Maine
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The 1st District Democrat says she's cosponsored legislation that would ban any oil drilling in the Gulf of Maine.
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'It Halfway Broke My Heart' Says Louisiana Angler, As Oil Washes In
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As oil washes ashore near the mouth of the Mississippi River, fishermen
swallow fears about the future of what state license plates call
"Sportsman's Paradise."
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EDITORIAL: In the Gulf, a grim warning about fossil-fuel addiction
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STATES ALONG the Gulf of Mexico have bet
their fishing and tourism industries on the safety of oil drilling
offshore, and that bet, which New England has refused to make, has
turned into a losing one. The nation as a whole should take the growing
oil spill in the Gulf as a warning — that there are consequences to
relying so heavily on fossil fuels, and that domestic oil production is
no panacea for US energy needs.
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Concessions to Kennedys in Wind Farm Approval
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After 46 years in the U.S. Senate, the late Edward M. Kennedy now
appears to be influencing government decisions from the grave. Yesterday
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced approval of the Cape
Wind renewable energy project on federal submerged lands in Nantucket
Sound off the coast of Massachusetts. But the approval came with several
concessions made to the concerns of the late Hyannis Port resident, who
had sailed in the sound for decades. Kennedy and members of his family
had been the most prominent influential coastal residents fighting the
project.
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