The oil group is still paying out for damage caused by the 2010 oil spill disaster - the biggest offshore oil spill...
...judge in New Orleans said he was leaning in favour of granting preliminary approval to a proposed class-action settlement...
...prosecutors have brought the first criminal charges over the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting...
Sales climbed by a quarter to €6.58bn, the Paris-based company said.BP is hit with more than 100,000 claimsOILBP...
...the well in the Gulf of Mexico uncovered "compelling evidence" of pollution damage.Coral communities more than 4,000ft...
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Further study is needed to determine what effect that contamination may have on developing embryos or young birds, though funding is running out for the research. Even a small drop of oil contamination can be hazardous to a bird, and small amounts of... Full Article at About.com: Birding / Wild Birds
2010, after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it is easy to say that BP (BP) was less than popular. The company's stock plummeted, losing over half of its value to under $30 a share in just a few short months. Has the company made a turnaround? Since... Full Article at Seeking Alpha
FILE - In a Tuesday, April 24, 2012 file photo, former BP engineer Kurt Mix leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing, in Houston. On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, a federal grand jury indicted Mix, the former BP engineer arrested last week in Houston on... View Photo »
Everything needs to be brought out ... We could quit pointing fingers. Each party that was guilty would know their part.
Mississippi -- Cities in Jackson County are objecting to a proposed BP oil spill class action settlement set to start paying out $8 billion on June 4. That's because nearly all of the coastal part of the county is in a category where businesses and... Full Article at Gulf Live
Santana / Associated Press Vessels work to clean up the November oil spill from Chevron's offshore field near Brazil. On Nov. 7, something went wrong at a deep-sea oil well operated by Chevron 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. As a massive drill... Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
ORLEANS A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for a federal judge's permission to travel freely throughout the U.S. while he is free on bond. Earlier... Full Article at The Daily Advertiser
This April 18, 2012, photo shows Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange in his Montgomery, Ala. , office. Strange has urged a Louisiana federal judge to set a trial date to hear claims of lost revenue by Alabama and Louisiana because of the massive BP... View Photo »
Prospecting for oil should only be approved when we are confident that we have adequate safeguards in place to protect the environment in the event of a disaster, says Annette King. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is evidence of what can happen when things go wrong. We cannot afford to have somethin...
The much reduced production was principally due to the moratorium and de facto moratorium placed on offshore drilling by the Obama Administration after the oil spill accident in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. This post will investigate Federal... Full Article at Snow Report Blog
Alabama -- The city will receive about twice the expected amount of settlement money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill following a final agreement, officials said Friday. The Robertsdale City Council voted Friday to accept a final settlement... Full Article at Everything Alabama
Cuba refines roughly 50,000 barrels of oil, a third of what it needs. The rest is subsidized by Hugo Chavez's government in Caracas. Follow us The plan for the well caused an uproar among Florida environmental and regulatory groups, anxious that any... Full Article at International Business Times
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Everything needs to be brought out ... We could quit pointing fingers. Each party that was guilty would know their part.
Prospecting for oil should only be approved when we are confident that we have adequate safeguards in place to protect the environment in the event of a disaster, says Annette King. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is evidence of what can happen when things go wrong. We cannot afford to have somethin...
The bad news is all too familiar. Louisiana’s coast and the Gulf of Mexico continue to feel the effects of the 2010 BP oil spill as nearby residents wonder what the full impact of that catastrophic spill will be…
Senators from other states come to us and say, 'Well, we'll go ahead and pass this bill where we'll let you keep some of the BP oil spill money, but only if you agree to allow us to get some of that money for the Great Lakes, for California, for other parts of the country that have nothing to do with th...
MOBILE, Alabama — U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, said Monday that prospects are looking good for passage of the Restore Act, federal legislation that would steer billions of dollars in fines from the 2010 BP oil spill to the Gulf Coast states affected by the catastrophe…
Two years after the BP oil spill, the Louisiana Gulf Coast has reached a tipping point. It is on the cusp of the most ambitious conservation and economic restoration effort in its history…
Emergency sand berms built along barrier islands off Louisiana's coast to capture oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill remain largely intact and are being incorporated into several island-restoration projects, a state contractor said Wednesday…
Arrest made in connection to BP oil spill
The first criminal charges in connection with the BP oil spill have been filed against a former BP engineer named Kurt Mix
BP is cooperating with the Department of Justice and other official investigations into the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill. BP had clear policies requiring preservation of evidence in this case and has undertaken substantial and ongoing efforts to preserve evidence.
The first criminal charges in connection with the BP oil spill have been filed in Houston, Texas against a former BP engineer named Kurt Mix
A variety of individuals and organizations addressed the second anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which occurred on Friday…
It cost me a possible future career. I had to go work off-shore in the gulf and when the BP oil spill happened I was out of work for three months. Now I work nuclear security
But we continue to be focused on pursuing additional projects with BP. Nearly two years after the start of the oil spill, we hope that BP moves quickly to approve future restoration for the Gulf Coast.
WASHINGTON — Two years after the BP oil spill devastated livelihoods, fragile ecosystems and local economies along the Gulf Coast, supporters say Congress is close to passing a measure that could send billions to the region for restoration efforts…
Throughout the month, LPB has offered in-depth reports as we reach the two-year anniversary of the BP Oil Spill on April 20th. State officials say there are still one million barrels of oil still lurking in the Gulf and a new report from the National Wildlife Federation says bottlenose dolphins, bluefin...
Last Christmas, BP launched a new national ad campaign to tout its progress in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico 20 months after its deepwater well exploded on April 20, 2010, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history…
After the BP oil spill I realized that all of our eggs were in one basket ... That is a mistake.
An oil spill like the one we saw in the Gulf of Mexico would have far worse consequences in the Arctic
That oil spill is really a smoking gun, I think, and so certainly there is chronic oil addition to the Gulf on a regular basis and part of that is natural but that natural component is only like five percent roughly of that whole BP oil spill.
At a time when multinationals like Chevron are using BITs to evade justice and get out of environmental remediation obligations, it is unthinkable that an Obama administration - post-BP oil spill, post-Wall Street crash - would privilege the rich at the expense of the 99 percent
The members of the presidential Oil Spill Commission that investigated the BP spill said in a report that they were 'encouraged' by reforms at the Interior Department, which oversees drilling in U.S. waters
On today's second anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform, which killed 11 workers and caused the massive BP oil spill, there will be no gifts…
NEW ORLEANS – Two years have passed since the April 20, 2010, blowout of BP's Macondo well triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill…
ARATARIA BAY, La. — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are beginning to suspect that fish in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering th...
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BP Oil Spill and Texas: Two years and four days after the Deepwater Horizon drilling-rig explosion which killed 11 workers and set off the worst offshore oil spill in US history, Kurt Mix, 50, of Katy, Texas, was arrested and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence.
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