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• Canada Increases Scrutiny of Offshore Drilling

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  Photo: Public domain . Trying to Avoid a Repeat of the BP Oil Spill The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already having repercussions up North, not because the oil got caught into the loop current and floated around Florida and all the way up the Atlantic, but because Canadian regulators have decided to keep a closer...
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• No death penalty for accused Fla. office shooter

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  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The man charged with killing a former colleague and wounding five others in a downtown Orlando shooting spree won't face the death penalty....
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• FL: U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene takes jabs at Sen. Bill Nelson

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  Positioning himself as the outsider against three career politicians for the U.S. Senate, Democratic real estate investor Jeff Greene took a shot at an elder statesman in his own party during a visit Wednesday to a politically active Broward retirement community.
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• LA: Damage lives on from 1969 Cape oil spill

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  WEST FALMOUTH, Mass. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Chris Reddy rammed a plastic cylinder into the sticky mud of the Wild Harbor salt marsh and extracted 6 inches of muck. "Smell this,'' he said, taking a whiff. There, faint but unmistakable, was the stench of oil.
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• LA: Shallow-water drilling urged

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  WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decided it was "time to hit the pause button," on new offshore drilling until investigators figure out what went wrong at that exploratory well a mile beneath Gulf of Mexico waters.
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