Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu calls on government to lift EPA ban on BP

Guardian: A Lousiana senator has called on the US government to lift the ban that prevents BP from securing sensitive federal contracts, even as the state sues the oil firm for the environmental damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Mary Landrieu said the moratorium, imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last November, amounted to "double jeopardy". The 2010 oil spill is the subject of a sprawling civil law case being played out in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the five Gulf......

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