Reuters: Oil companies should be required to prove they can respond to major oil spills before they are allowed to acquire leases for offshore oil and gas development, White House oil spill commission co-chair Bill Reilly said on Monday. Reilly said such a requirement would help place some of the responsibility for improving oil spill response technology on oil companies, although he said the government should lead this effort. “The way to approach this is to make a condition of a grant …