Obama says no new US offshore drilling leases until new safeguards in place

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday, in a largely symbolic gesture, promised that no new offshore oil drilling leases will be issued unless rigs have new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the explosion that unleashed the massive spill...

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