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EPA Administrator: "more oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico than at any other time in our history"

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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via MSNBC.com’s Meet the Press’ transcript for May 30, 2010 – interview that included EPA Administrator Carol Browner, who stated, “It means more oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico than at any other time in our history. It means there is more, more, more oil than the Exxon Valdez.”

  • WSJ.com: [BP] “now plans to try to contain the flow of oil from the leak with a “lower marine riser package,” or cap. The operation would involve removing a broken drilling pipe, or riser, that lies atop the blowout preventer and capping the valve with a siphon that would take the oil to the surface. Mr. Dudley said “there is no certainty” that the operation—which BP officials say has never been carried out in 5,000 feet of water—would work.”

    • BEA: 2009 Decline Widespread Across Industries

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    2009 Decline Widespread Across Industries: “Advance GDP by Industry Statistics for 2009 and Revised Statistics for 1998-2008 – Downturns in durable-goods manufacturing and finance and insurance and a continued contraction in construction were the leading contributors to the downturn in U.S. economic growth in 2009, according to preliminary statistics on the breakout of real gross… Continue Reading

    EIA – Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report – May 28, 2010

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    Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report — May 28, 2010: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas Production Report) for Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Other States and Lower 48 States. Alaska data are from the State of Alaska and… Continue Reading

    EU data protection group says Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! do not comply with data protection rules

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    Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Press Release, Brussels, 26 May 2010: EU data protection group says Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! do not comply with data protection rules “The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of European data protection authorities, today told the three major search engine operators – Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft… Continue Reading