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June 16th, 2010

After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama met on his own turf with top BP officials on Wednesday to press his demands that the London-based oil giant pay into a claims fund for victims of the worst oil spill in the nation's history.


June 16th, 2010

BP executives arrive at WH to meet with Obama (AP)

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg (R) and CEO Tony Hayward arrive for their meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, June 16, 2010. Obama will confront BP on Wednesday with a demand that it set aside billions to pay damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. REUTERS/Jim Young    (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER ENERGY BUSINESS)AP - Top BP oil company officials, including chief executive Tony Hayward, have arrived at the White House for a meeting Wednesday with President Barack Obama.


June 16th, 2010

BP starts burning oil from leaking ruptured well (AP)

Vessels operate near the Q4000 drilling rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, June 13, 2010. Oil continues to flow from the wellhead some 5,000 feet below the surface.  (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - BP began burning oil siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday as part of its plans to more than triple the amount of crude it can stop from reaching the sea, the company said.


June 16th, 2010

FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech (AP)

President Barack Obama is photographed after delivering a televised address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday June 15, 2010. President Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for 'as long as it takes.' (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either.


June 16th, 2010

Gulf Coast welcomes Obama’s pledge to restore land (AP)

President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - After 50 years of watching wetlands created by the fertile Mississippi River turn into open water, Louisiana residents finally got what they'd long awaited: A U.S. president saying he'll fight to save what little is left along their eroding coast.



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