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Shallow Water Drillers Raise Concerns About Moratorium

By | 08.23.10 | 3:57 pm

Opponents of President Obama deepwater drilling moratorium have pounced on a story published Saturday in The Wall Street Journal saying that administration officials estimated that the drilling ban could result in the loss of 23,000 jobs.

And now, shallow water drillers are arguing that the moratorium will affect their More…

Reining in Military Contracts

By | 09.16.08 | 8:33 am

It was August 2003 when a fellow engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Moorestown, N.J., facility dropped by Mike DeKort’s office with a seemingly absurd complaint.

He said that Lockheed, the nation’s No. 1 defense contractor, had been buying non-waterproof radios from a subcontractor to install on some 15-year-old patrol boats that More…