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** FILE ** Crews clean up oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola Beach in Pensacola, Fla., in June 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Spooneybarger, File)

Official: No offshore drilling in East Coast waters

By Brendan Farrington and Matthew Daly

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** FILE ** Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, flanked by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Michael R. Bromwich (center) and Assistant Interior Secretary Tom Strickland, visits Louisiana on Monday, Nov 22, 2010. He promised to work with the oil and gas industry and to "ensure that everyone understands the rules of the road." (Associated Press)

Salazar galls lawmakers from Gulf states

By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times

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By wire dispatches and staff reports - Associated Press

Anger overflows on drilling halt report

By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times

Ex-regulator’s new job queried

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

In a July 28, 2010, file photo, the deepwater rig Noble Danny Adkins is seen from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's helicopter as he arrives to tour the rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and others in the Gulf Coast, on Tuesday, Oct. 12 2010, lifted the moratorium on deep water drilling that it imposed in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

U.S. lifts freeze on deepwater oil drilling

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, called the decision to lift the oil-drilling ban "a good start," but wants to get the entire industry back to work.

Drilling go-ahead in Gulf criticized

By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times

Interior Dept. sets new offshore drilling rules

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

U.S.: 23,000 workers affected by Gulf drilling ban

Associated Press

Supervisor Wade Falany handles a rope Monday while preparing for oil-skimming operations on the deck of the Pacific Responder skimming vessel in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. The vessel sailed from its home port in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the containment of oil leaking from the broken Deepwater Horizon well. (Associated Press)

Salazar puts new ban on deep-water oil drilling

By Kara Rowland and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHASTENED: The report by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on deep-water oil drilling, including his call for a six-month moratorium, was panned Tuesday by a federal judge as "misleading."

Judge lifts deep-water oil-drilling moratorium

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

BP CEO Tony Hayward, left, talks with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Science on drill ban questioned

By Kara Rowland and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times