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New York Times: The federal government has a large rainy day fund on hand to help mitigate the expanding damage on the Gulf Coast, generated by a tax on oil for use in cases like the Deepwater Horizon spill. Up to $1 billion of the $1.6 billion reserve could be used to compensate for losses from the accident, as much as half of it for what is sometimes a major category of costs: damage to natural resources like fisheries and other wildlife habitats. Under the law that established the reserve, ......
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Tax on Oil May Help Pay for Gulf Spill Cleanup
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 2nd, 2010
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