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U.S. Request to Delay Lifting of Drilling Ban Denied

A federal judge denied a request by the U.S. government to delay an order that allows deepwater drilling to resume.

 

Obama administration to issue new drilling moratorium

The Obama administration scrambled on Tuesday to resurrect a ban on deepwater oil drilling after a U.S. judge declared that its six-month moratorium was too broad and arbitrary, despite the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

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