Sens. Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, along with Nelson, unveiled a bill Tuesday that would raise the liability cap for oil companies from $75 million to $10 billion. But their liability bill was overshadowed by the senators' insistence that there would be no new oil drilling provisions in any climate change legislation that comes through the upper chamber. Lautenberg referred to the Gulf spill as an "environmental nuclear bomb.”
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