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Loren Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise

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From Loren Steffy: Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help. It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands. The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: ā€œThe embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ā€˜Thanks, but no thanks,’ā€ said Geert Visser, consul general for…

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Kendrick Meek: ‘BP will not sleep’

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Kendrick Meek — who is seeingĀ Charlie Crist poach some Democratic voters — Wednesday addressed a group of liberal activists, vowing to hold BP accountable for the mess in the Gulf. “I will tell you,Ā as long as I have a voting card, BPĀ will not sleep well because they know there’s a 6′ 3″ 250-pound member of Congress that’s thinking about them and will make them accountable in this disaster,” Meek said to applause. Continue reading here.

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Kendrick Meek: ‘BP will not sleep’

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Kendrick Meek — who is seeingĀ Charlie Crist poach some Democratic voters — Wednesday addressed a group of liberal activists, vowing to hold BP accountable for the mess in the Gulf. “I will tell youĀ tell you,Ā as long as I have a voting card, BPĀ will not sleep well because they know there’s a 6′ 3″ 250-pound member of Congress that’s thinking about them and will make them accountable in this disaster,” Meek said to applause. Continue reading here.

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Bloomberg columnist: Stop whining, Pensacola

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Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn writes that we Americans should to stop whining. He recommends that BP quit apologizing and instead go on the attack. ā€œā€¦there are no words BP can use to apologize sufficiently for the damage the leak has caused. Whatever it says, itā€™s still going to be the most reviled company in America. Instead BP should try a different tack. It should tell the U.S., and everybody in it, to go take a hike. In reality, the U.S.…

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Poll: Response to oil spill worse than handling of Hurricane Katrina

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ABC NEWS reports Americans by more than 2-1 support pursuit of criminal charges in the nationā€™s worst oil spill, with increasing numbers calling it a major environmental disaster, eight in 10 criticizing the way BPā€™s handled it ā€” and the federal governmentā€™s own response rated worse than it was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Ā Continue reading here.

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Jeff Greene calls on BP to invest $100 mil a year for 10 years for reparations for oil spill

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Jeff Greene, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, called on British Petroleum (BP) to invest $100 million dollars a year for 10 years in an escrow account that Florida can use for alternative energy, environmental cleanup, economic recovery, tourism promotion, and health-related issues as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has now reached the Florida coast. The full policy proposal is included at the end of this post. ā€œThis is the worst environmental disaster…

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BP hires former Dick Cheney press secretary to run PR

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BP, struggling to maintain its image while taking responsibility for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, has hired someone new to head its American public relations operation: Anne Womack-Kolton, the former campaign press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney. Womack-Kolton ran Cheney’s press shop during the 2004 campaign, and worked as an assistant press secretary in 2000. She was also an assistant in the White House press office. She begins today, the BP press office tells Talking Points Memo.…

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