All posts tagged "Offshore Oil Drilling"

WASHINGTON — Veteran Republican Senator John McCain on Thursday unveiled an alternative employment plan after his party this week blocked President Barack Obama's jobs bill in the Senate.

An environmental group urged Canada Friday to suspend oil exploration in the Arctic, warning that otherwise it risks an environmental disaster worse than the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Very early in his term, President Barack Obama says he knew that Republicans were going to oppose him at every turn.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will Thursday extend a moratorium on new deepwater drilling for six months, and unveil a major curtailment of the offshore oil industry, after a review of the Gulf disaster.

Oil giant BP faced mounting pressure Monday to control a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the US government threatened to take over the response to the month-old disaster.

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar raised expectations Thursday of what he cast as BP's make-or-break attempt to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill by filling a ruptured well with mud.