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Investegate announcements from Acorn Project (Two), Annual Financial Report

We're only a few months removed from the worst oil spill in our history. so what we've done is to put in place common sense standards like proving that companies can actually contain an underwater spill and companies are stepping up and we've approved more than 35 new offshore drilling permits that meet the safety and environment standards. there is more we can do, however. for example, right now, the industry holds leases on tens of millions of acres, both offshore and onland, where they're not producing a thing. so i direct the the interior department to determine how many of the leases are ...

>> reporter: meanwhile, focus is the border. report in the electronic newspaper "daily" says mexican gangs are nationwide. >> the mexican drug cartels are in well over 200 cities here in the united states. immigration reform as it always is, subject of the two leaders' talks, though felipe calderon's law in arizona dominated the visit. this time, barely a mention. president obama did agree to let mexican trucks in the u.s. under the 1994 nafta agreement if they meet environment standards. u.s. and mexico have to come up with a plan to ensure the trucks meet the standards and congress still has...

>> reporter: meanwhile, focus is the border. report in the electronic newspaper "daily" says mexican gangs are nationwide. >> the mexican drug cartels are in well over 200 cities here in the united states. immigration reform as it always is, subject of the two leaders' talks, though felipe calderon's law in arizona dominated the visit. this time, barely a mention. president obama did agree to let mexican trucks in the u.s. under the 1994 nafta agreement if they meet environment standards. u.s. and mexico have to come up with a plan to ensure the trucks meet the standards and congress still has...