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Officials say BP spill now hitting all Gulf states (AP)

AP - Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill found on a Texas beach were the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.

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BP costs for oil spill response pass $3 billion (AP)

AP - BP’s costs for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climbed nearly half a billion dollars in the past week, raising the oil giant’s tab to just over $3 billion for work on cleaning and capping the gusher and payouts to individuals, businesses and governments.

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Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily (AP)

AP - Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.

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UAW meets as union looks to claw back from crisis (Reuters)

Reuters - United Auto Workers delegates will gather in Detroit this week to elect new leaders as the union emerges from the U.S. auto industry’s near-death experience with fewer workers, lower wages and an uncertain set of bargaining chips.

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Oil spill casts doubts on deep water exploration: analysts (AFP)

AFP - The disaster caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has cast doubts over the future of deep water exploration and is likely to have the long-term effect of raising oil prices, analysts say.

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Key spill size issue: How much and does it matter? (AP)

AP - Just how much oil is spewing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico and how important is it to know that? Experts can’t agree on either question

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Obama decries fingerpointing, ‘cozy’ oil links (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama on Friday angrily decried the “ridiculous spectacle” of oil industry officials pointing fingers of blame for the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico and said the accident could bring devastation to the region and its economy.

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