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Topic: Offshore drilling

This April 21, 2010, file photo shows a large plume of smoke rising from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

"A recipe for disaster"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
This April 21, 2010, file photo shows a large plume of smoke rising from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

There are better ways to lead on energy

Scott L. Montgomery - The Conversation
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The ocean floor is dying

Sandra Brooke
In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Trump offshore drilling sale challenged

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
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No lessons learned from Deepwater spill

Donald Boesch - The Conversation
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Today in the destruction of regulations

Charlie May
FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash., aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. (AP)

OBAMA bans drilling

Matthew Rozsa
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BP to pay record fine

Lindsay Abrams
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President Ted Cruz's America

Lindsay Abrams
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Canada: Anti-science babies

Lindsay Abrams
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Obama's dirty climate plan

Lindsay Abrams
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Twice as good as drilling

Lindsay Abrams
North Atlantic Right Whale (Stephen Meese/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
Five Greenpeace International activists attempt to climb the Prirazlomnaya, an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom platform in Russias Pechora Sea. (Greenpeace/Denis Sinyakov)

Lindsay Abrams
A Russian Coast guard officer is seen pointing a gun at a Greenpeace International activist as five activists attempt to climb the 'Prirazlomnaya,' an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom platform in Russias Pechora Sea. (Denis Sinyakov/Greenpeace)

Lindsay Abrams
A North Sea oil rig in Scotland, UK. (Wikimedia)

Emine Saner - The Guardian