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Topic: Gulf Oil Spill (page 15)

Rescue time, May 20, 2010
Fire and oil in the Gulf of Mexico, April 29, 2010

Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh is seen in this police booking mug shot taken on April 28, 2006. Limbaugh turned himself in to police in Florida on Friday and was charged with prescription drug fraud as part of a probe that began more than two years ago, authorities said. Limbaugh was released on $3,000 bail after being held for about one hour at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office/Handout (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

Oil drips from the rubber gloves of a Greenpeace Biologist at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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A relief platform and oil recovery ship sits over the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico 55 miles (89 km) south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana May 8, 2010. BP Plc engineers positioned a four-story metal chamber above a gushing, ruptured oil well on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday in an unprecedented effort to contain a possibly catastrophic spill. REUTERS/Sean Gardner (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) (Reuters)

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Jeffrey Collins

Transocean's 2009 "safety award"

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Ramit Plushnick-masti, Noaki Schwartz

Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

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In this photo made from video taken by BP PLC on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, oil leaks into the Gulf of Mexico from the end of the pipe that was supposed to pump oil from the sea floor before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sunk last month. Right: President Obama.

President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

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Curt Anderson, Allen G. Breed

The flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

An aerial view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Mobile, Ala.

H. Josef Hebert, Harry R. Weber

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From left to right, Lamar McKay, President and Chairman of BP American, Steven Newman, President and Chief Executive Officer Transocean Limited and Tim Probert, President, Global Business Lines and Chief Health, Safety and Enviromental Officer Halliburton, testify before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, May 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Associated Press)

Dr. F.E. Beck, left, Associate Professor Texas A&M University, and Elmer Danenberger, right, Former Chief Offshore Regulatory Program Minerals Management Services are sworn-in befre they testify at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, May 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Associated Press)

GOP, Dems agree: No love for oil regulator

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