Interior Dept. safety luncheon cancelled, BP was a finalist

Ben Smith of Politico reports that the Interior Department cancelled its annual SAFE Awards luncheon this afternoon. The event is organized to "recognize outstanding safety and pollution prevention performance by the offshore oil and gas industry."

BP, the company that has an oil well oozing petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, was an awards finalist, as it was last year.

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