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This is what $245 million looks like
Crime and Safety - Sun-SentinelThe U.S. Coast GuardÂ?this week announced the Dec. 2Â?seizure of more than two tons of cocaine from a vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. AÂ?special forces team operating from the USS Oak HillÂ?discovered more than two tons of cocaine duringÂ...Tags: Mexico, Honduras, U.S. Coast Guard
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Tropical Storm Don forms in the Gulf of Mexico
Maryland WeatherThe fourth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season formed today in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Don was located about 120 miles north of Cozumel, Mexico, and 755 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. Hurricane......Tags: Texas, Mexico, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Hurricanes
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More action in the tropics
Maryland WeatherAs if we didn'ty have enough to contend with after Irene, and with more rain and flooding from what remains of Lee, the tropical Atlantic continues to gin up more storms.Hurricane Katia continues to spin its way across the Atlantic.......Tags: Mexico, Tropical Storms, Duck
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Temperature records could fall today
Maryland WeatherThe National Weather Service is predicting that high temperature records will fall Friday at all three regional airports. The record at BWI-Marshall for this date is 95 degrees. That's also the forecast high for the day, but Sterling's prognosticators...Tags: Weather Reports, Baltimore Weather, Weather, ING Group
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Palin: Obama too close to BP
The Swampby Lisa Mascaro Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate who helped popularize "Drill, baby, drill" as a slogan, suggested Sunday that President Obama's campaign ties to the oil industry were impeding cleanup of the BP spill in the.....Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Sarah Palin, Republican National Conventions, Wildlife, Petroleum Industry
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U.S. tax breaks favor oil industry
The SwampResidents of Grand Isle, La. express their frustration with BP Monday. (EPA/Bevil Knapp) by Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger It was close to 2 a.m. when Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and others on a House-Senate conference committee saw......Tags: Texas, Bob Menendez, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Norway, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
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Little chance Agatha will become Gulf storm
Maryland WeatherThe remnants of the NE Pacific's first tropical storm of the season, Agatha, are given little chance of quick redevelopment over the western Caribbean Sea. Conditions over the Gulf of Mexico are said to be even less conducive to storm......Tags: Weather Reports, Mexico, Weather, Disasters, Death
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Foreign registration of BP rig factored in explosion
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger The Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico was built in South Korea. It was operated by a Swiss company under contract to a British oil firm. Primary responsibility for......Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, James L Oberstar, BP Plc, Companies and Corporations, Emergency Incidents
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Atlantic storm pops up on Opening Day
Maryland WeatherFloridians are looking at an unusual storm system moving onto the peninsula from the Atlantic Ocean today, the first official day of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. This weird disturbance actually began as a squall in Michigan. The concentration of...Tags: Tropical Weather, Disasters and Accidents, Weather, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Islands
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Before explosion, BP urged against new regulation
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Mike Memoli Newly obtained documents reveal that months before the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, British Petroleum was telling the Obama administration that the regulatory process run through the now widely-criticized...Tags: Philosophy, Litigation and Regulation, Explosions, Energy Resources, Companies and Corporations
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Congress to probe rig registration, safety
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger Two House committees will question government and oil industry officials about worker safety aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig the day it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, focusing in part on worker complaints......Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Mississippi, Gene Taylor, Petroleum Industry
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Obama swims in the Gulf
The Swampby Mike Memoli On his brief holiday in Panama City, President Obama did, indeed, take a swim in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House released the above photo today, showing the president and first daughter Sasha in the water......Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Emergency Incidents, Disasters, White House, Florida
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