August 27, 2008

U.S. Must Repay Oil Firms For Offshore Leases

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ordered the government to return approximately $1.1 billion in past "bonus" payments to a group of oil and natural gas companies, saying Congress effectively repudiated long-held offshore...

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