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When you look back at all this, bp, exxon valdez, the question you have to ask yourself is, where exactly is the accountability here? i'll tell you. last week, mere days after reach a deal with the environmental protection agency to once again begin offshore drilling, bp paid $42 million to the u.s. department of interior of .03% of last year's profits for the rights on 24 potential new drilling sites. not just talking about oil, though, here. the business of fossil fuel extraction across the board tends to be a very dirty business. last week, north carolina's duke energy got busted for dumpin...

The rest was dispersed, put into the gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. that's not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. they're not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time there's a -- particularly when there's a freight oil disaster or this, well, the keystone pipeline is your solution. you're concerned about safety. you're concerned about spills. you namby pamby liberals. ke...

The gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. that's not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. they're not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time there's a -- particularly when there's a freight oil disaster or this, well, the keystone pipeline is your solution. you're concerned about safety. you're concerned about spills. you namby pamby liberals. keystone pipeline is the way to do ...

8% total was skimmed or burned. the rest was dispersed, put into the gulf, put into the water, put into the food stream. that's not acceptable. those are the exact same technologies they used in the prince william sound and the same ones they would use if we had a spill in the arctic. they're not adequate. >> so one of the arguments you hear was actually made i think either today or yesterday on fox news, right, any time there's a -- particularly when there's a freight oil disaster or this, well, the keystone pipeline is your solution. you're concerned about safety. you're concerned about spil...

You have to ask yourself is, where exactly is the accountability here? i'll tell you. last week, mere days after reaching a deal with the environmental protection agency to once again begin offshore drilling, bp paid $42 million to the u.s. department of interior of .03% of last year's profits for the rights of 24 potential new drilling sites. not just talking about oil, though, here. the business of fossil fuel extraction across the board tends to be a very dirty business. last week, north carolina's duke energy got busted for dumping 61 million gallons of coal ash waste into a canal leading ...