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Under the system federal law has set up for oil-spill responses, government and oil-company officials are supposed to work together.

Exxon Gets Deadline to Clean Up Montana Spill Jack Nicas 2011

Surging gasoline prices have triggered another energy brawl between the White House and congressional Republicans, this time over oil-company tax breaks, as both sides try to skirt voter blame for the increasing pain at the pump.

Gas Price Surge Triggers Political Brawl Neil King Jr. 2011

"When you consider the risk that offshore drilling poses to our coastal economies and environment, the current cap on oil-company liability is just a spit in the ocean that does nothing to hold them accountable," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. one of the chief advocates of eliminating a cap on economic-damage liability for oil companies.

Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011

Journal Community "We have to choose priorities and right now we have a huge budget deficit," Sen. Chuck Schumer D., N.Y. said during the hearing, before turning to ConocoPhillips Chief Executive James Mulva and challenging him to explain a Conoco news release that labeled as "un-American" the Democratic proposal to curtail oil-company tax breaks.

Oil Chiefs, Senators Play to Type at Hearing Siobhan Hughes 2011

To make matters worse, the drive into deeper and riskier Gulf waters occurred in a context in which our watchdog agencies were defanged and compromised, creating an atmosphere in which oil-company engineers sometimes penciled in their own responses to inspection forms.

Peter Lehner: Six Months After the Spill, What We Still Need to Do to Prevent Another Disaster Peter Lehner 2010

"When you consider the risk that offshore drilling poses to our coastal economies and environment, the current cap on oil-company liability is just a spit in the ocean that does nothing to hold them accountable," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. one of the chief advocates of eliminating a cap on economic-damage liability for oil companies.

Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011

"When you consider the risk that offshore drilling poses to our coastal economies and environment, the current cap on oil-company liability is just a spit in the ocean that does nothing to hold them accountable," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. one of the chief advocates of eliminating a cap on economic-damage liability for oil companies.

Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011

"When you consider the risk that offshore drilling poses to our coastal economies and environment, the current cap on oil-company liability is just a spit in the ocean that does nothing to hold them accountable," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. one of the chief advocates of eliminating a cap on economic-damage liability for oil companies.

Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011

"When you consider the risk that offshore drilling poses to our coastal economies and environment, the current cap on oil-company liability is just a spit in the ocean that does nothing to hold them accountable," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. one of the chief advocates of eliminating a cap on economic-damage liability for oil companies.

Gulf Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Changes To Spill Liability Sam Stein 2011

To make matters worse, the drive into deeper and riskier Gulf waters occurred in a context in which our watchdog agencies were defanged and compromised, creating an atmosphere in which oil-company engineers sometimes penciled in their own responses to inspection forms.

Peter Lehner: Six Months After the Spill, What We Still Need to Do to Prevent Another Disaster Peter Lehner 2010