US green groups launch fresh legal challenge to offshore drilling

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NGOs claim first sale of offshore leases since BP disaster has failed to take proper account of spill risks

The fallout from last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continued yesterday, as a group of green NGOs launched a legal challenge against the government attempting to block the first sale of offshore...

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