Image via WikipediaThe Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate dealt organized labor another defeat on Tuesday when it voted to repeal a collective bargaining law.
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In the inbox of Petr Zavodsky, director of nuclear power plant construction at Czech power group CEZ are three sets of proposals from American, French and Russian consortiums, all angling for a $30 billion contract to build five new reactors.
The American nuclear industry has also gone on a public relations drive. The industry's main lobby group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, has been out in force in Washington since the disaster, kicking off its response with a meeting three days after the quake in which it briefed 100 to 150 key aides to U.S. lawmakers on the crisis.
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Why smart investors made money on the BP oil spill
Pumped Up: Chevron Drills Down 30,000 Feet to Tap Oil-Rich Gulf of Mexico
Offshore Rig Utilization by Region
Spill's Toll on Oil Output Grows Clearer
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Mitsui & Co. ’s Moex Offshore LLC unit, a 10 percent partner with BP Plc in the blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, sued BP for economic losses as a result of the project’s failure and the spill that followed.
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WASHINGTON -- A year after BP's catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the petroleum giant is easing its way back into the political money race -- and the stain of shame candidates originally felt about accepting the company's contributions appears to have evaporated.
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CBS News video: What became of the oil from the BP spill? - The BP oil spill leaked over 200 million gallons of oil in to Gulf of Mexico. With the one-year anniversary of the disaster approaching, questions remain about what became of it all. Mark Strassmann returned to the Gulf for answers.
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The Gulf oil spill began one year ago this week. While much of the oil is no longer visible, does it remain unseen?
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Make BP Pay flashmobs across the country on Wednesday April 20th. Add your action to the map: http://powershift2011.org/make
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Real Coastal Warriors "You've got two choices on shrimp these days. You could have shrimp from the gulf with the BP oil in the head or you've got your choice of shrimp from the Pacific that glow in the dark."
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Almost a year after the massive BP oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Strassmann reports on the debate over the level of recovery and the effectiveness ...
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Stories from the Gulf is a half-hour film produced by NRDC and presented by Robert Redford about Gulf Coast residents living in the aftermath of the oil disa...
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switchboard.nrdc.orgThe one-year mark of the BP oil disaster finds may Gulf coast residents are still struggling with the impacts and unanswered questions left in the wake of the country’s worst oil spill.
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Wednesday is the one-year anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. All week long on The Takeaway, we'll be speaking to residents of the Gulf region whose lives, businesses and communities were profoundly impacted by the oil gusher that followed the explosi
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Investing is a cold-hearted endeavor, and as the response to the BP spill evolved, investors tried to find ways to profit from it. Shares of oil-dispersant maker Nalco rose in the wake of the disaster but have since fallen, as its product is alleged to have been as bad for the ecology as the oil tha
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Health issues that continue to plague Gulf Coast communities may be connected to the Gulf oil spill, experts say.
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Scientists may have figured out how huge plumes of Gulf oil spread underwater instead of rising to the surface as slicks.
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CBS News video: Pressure Builds after Latest BP Snag - BP's latest attempt to contain the oil spill has hit a new snag and the oil is spreading ever closer to Florida. As Mark Strassmann tells us, BP soon hopes to cap the well with a containment valve.
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but now the federal government is returning weakened dolphins found stranded to deeper Gulf waters, without allowing them to be studied for the research that is trying to nail down the cause of all the sudden dolphin deaths.
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NEWPORT BEACH ( KTLA ) -- Two dead dolphins that washed up on the shores of Newport Beach appear to have died from domoic acid poisoning.
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A year after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, dozens of dead baby dolphins are washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico; oyster populations are devastated, crippling a multi-billion dollar industry and the tens of thousands of jobs that go with it; and Gulf residents continue to complain of lingerin
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Life around the Gulf for humans has largely returned to normal a year after the BP oil spill. For wildlife, however, it may be a different story.
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Gas Industry Admits Water Contamination in Pennsylvania, Drillers Told To Stop Fracking Wastewater Delivery To POTWs
Supreme Court Casts Doubt On States' Global Warming Suit
Cuba's 'old guard' to oversee economic reform
The meeting has approved 300 economic proposals, though details are yet to fully emerge.
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Popular suffrage was not put into effect. Instead, candidates were simply delivered under the pretext of a parliamentary reform, replacing the elections system with a body comprising only candidates of the various corporations of Italy, fulfilling Benito Mussolini's vow of enacting a complete corporativist system.
The candidates for the approximately 600 seats were nominated summarily by three organs: the Grand Council of Fascism of the National Fascist Party (PNF), by the National Council of the members of the PNF, and by the different corporations resembling the entire trade and industry of Italy, canalized through the National Council of Corporations (Consiglio Nazionale della Corporazioni), effectively in the hands of Mussolini and the PNF.A Soldier's Story
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