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Vague Law and Hard Lobbying Add Up to Billions for Big Oil

SOURCE: Edmund L. Andrews // The New York Times

26 Mar 2006 // It was after midnight and every lawmaker in the committee room wanted to go home, but there was still time to sweeten a deal encouraging oil and gas companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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