BP’s Blueprint for Emerging From Crisis
BP said on Tuesday that it had set aside $32.2 billion to pay for the biggest offshore oil spill in United States history. But the company acknowledged that its costs might be much higher — especially...
View ArticleFISHERMEN, ENVIRONMENTALISTS SUE TO PROTECT AIR, WATER SAMPLES CRITICAL TO...
With documented evidence and testimony that BP has failed to preserve air and water samples containing oil, organic compounds and/or dispersant releases related to the DEEPWATER HORIZON catastrophe in...
View ArticleLa. health department: 324 blame illness on spill
Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals says 324 people have reported illnesses blamed on oil or dispersants from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. That includes 241 people - or about three-quarters...
View ArticleOn the Surface, Gulf Oil Spill Is Vanishing Fast; Concerns Stay
The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back...
View ArticleDelta’s Black Oystermen Seeking Cleanup Work and Clinging to Hope
POINTE A LA HACHE, La. — Way down in the delta, just south of the Belle Chasse Ferry at Beshel’s Marina here, black men with work-worn hands and several generations of fishing in their blood sat around...
View ArticleFingerprinting the Spill
In what amounts to a win for BP spill victims, a federal court in Louisiana Tuesday (July 27) ordered the oil company to preserve oil samples it has taken from its gusher and work with environmental...
View ArticleWant the Good News First?
Grand Isle, La. It is pretty much a tossup for me: Who poses a greater long-term threat to America’s Gulf Coast ecosystem: the U.S. Senate or BP? Right now, from what I’ve seen flying over the...
View ArticleOil causes 2,200 Gulf beach closings, warnings
MIAMI -- Gulf beaches from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle have been closed or slapped with health warnings nearly 10 times more often this summer than last because of oil from BP's massive...
View ArticleUncharted waters
From slip-and-fall accidents to billion-dollar toxic torts, courts wrestle with two big questions: Who is a legitimate victim, and what will it take to make that person whole? The damages resulting...
View ArticleMany deckhands lack documentation for spill claim
HOPEDALE, La. (AP) — In the fallout from the BP oil disaster, they're almost invisible: deck hands and other day laborers who get paid in cash, don't receive W2 forms, may not file tax returns and have...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon Poses Both Threats and Opportunities to Insurers, According...
BusinessWire - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill may now be capped, but much of its impact on commercial insurers has yet to be felt, according to legal, environmental and insurance experts participating...
View ArticleTalbot: 100 days into crisis, Gulf Coast still lacks answers on oil spill
Terry Deaton hasn't swung a hammer in three months. When you're a carpenter, that's a problem. Construction work was short along the coast prior to April 20, when BP's ruptured well began gushing oil...
View Article100 days of oil: Gulf life will never be the same
GRAND ISLE, La. — A hundred days ago, shop owner Cherie Pete was getting ready for a busy summer serving ice cream and po-boys to hungry fishermen. Local official Billy Nungesser was planning his...
View ArticleLocal governments: We want more say in oil cleanup
NEW ORLEANS -- The presidents of seven coastal parishes and other local officials say the Coast Guard and BP have banded together and ignored them, and they want a change. Even though the well is...
View ArticleGulf Shores closed to swimming for more than 50 days
In 2009, the beaches ranked among the top 200 in the U.S. for water quality, reported the Natural Resources Defense Council. Now, in the 14 weeks since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, the beaches...
View ArticleMajority of spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico unaccounted for in government data
Was Tony Hayward right, after all? Back in May, BP's chief executive told a British newspaper that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean," and the vast amounts of oil and chemical dispersants dumped...
View ArticleSen. Mary Landrieu proposes oil spill liability compromise
With the Senate divided about how to hold oil companies liable for future oil spills, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La, is offering a compromise she hopes will break the logjam. Landrieu's proposal wouldn't...
View ArticleEnvironmental groups propose framework for merging oil spill response,...
Three of the nation's most influential environmental groups on Wednesday called for the Obama administration and Congress to speed up funding to begin construction on long-awaited coastal restoration...
View ArticleBP Said Negligence May Be Found in Cause of Oil Spill, Texas Letter Shows
A BP Plc lawyer said evidence would show that an April explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were the result of gross negligence, Texas officials said in a letter that didn’t say who committed...
View ArticlePushing BP to Promote Tourism
BP is spending millions to preserve its public image during the oil spill, and some Gulf-area tourism officials want the oil company to fund their efforts to do the same. The U.S. Travel Association is...
View ArticleBP to emerge ‘smaller and wiser’
BP will emerge from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis a smaller and wiser company, according to the man who is due to take over the reins. Bob Dudley, currently in charge of BP's clean-up operation,...
View ArticleBP Fights U.S. Government, Oil-Spill Victims Over Venue for Gulf Lawsuit
BP Plc, the U.S. and plaintiffs who filed hundreds of lawsuits seeking billions of dollars for damages stemming from the largest oil spill in U.S. history are fighting over where the cases should be...
View ArticleUS judicial panel asked to consolidate more than 300 oil spill lawsuits...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judicial panel in Idaho is being asked to consolidate more than 300 spill-related lawsuits against BP and other...
View ArticleAn Oil Slick to Rival Oklahoma
With no more oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the the blown-out BP well, the surface oil slick seems to be breaking down rapidly, as Campbell Robertson and I report in Wednesday’s paper. That...
View ArticleFederal official to outline what lies ahead after oil spill is sealed
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently...
View ArticleMorning flight spots ‘non-metalic’ oil sheen in waters off Baldwin County
During a flight over the Gulf of Mexico this morning, aerial spotter Sean Brumley observed 'non-metalic' oil sheen in waters off Baldwin County in Alabama. Brumley, Orange Beach geographic information...
View ArticleResearch team will map underwater oil and gas plumes
A research team will return to the Gulf of Mexico next month to map underwater plumes of oil and gas, a University of Georgia oceanographer said. A team led by oceanographer Samantha Joye tracked one...
View ArticleFeinberg says he will divulge his salary
WASHINGTON – The administrator of a $20 billion Gulf oil spill compensation fund said Tuesday that he will disclose the salary BP is paying him, after initially declining to do so. Ken Feinberg told...
View ArticleSpill Coverage in the UK
While Americans might feel we have a common-sense consensus about the oil company formerly named British Petroleum, it's insightful to note that it's not exactly a worldwide consensus. In fact, the...
View ArticleGulf fishermen still skeptical of seafood
(CNN) – With the oil dissipating faster that expected, Louisiana seafood officials want BP to lure the state's fishermen back to the water. Many of Louisiana's 12 thousand fishermen have gotten...
View ArticleSurvey: 30 percent on Gulf Coast Suffer From Mental Illness in Wake of Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS -- The oil spill ravaging the Gulf of Mexico has inflicted widespread psychological distress among coastal residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, etching scars even...
View ArticleFishing firms prepare to file BP claims
With their livelihoods at stake, some South Florida charter boat businesses, fisherman and related businesses are taking action by filing claims or lawsuits against BP for economic damage from the Gulf...
View ArticleFamilies of Deepwater Horizon victims to face BP in court
The families of the 11 men killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the fishermen who have lost their livelihood to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will today face BP in court for the first...
View ArticleGulf Residents Face Quandary: Sue Or Settle?
The administrator of BP's compensation fund is trying to persuade Gulf Coast residents not to sue the company, but to take a settlement instead. But many in the region say it's too early to pinpoint...
View ArticleMany In Gulf On Road To Uncertain Compensation
The economic impact of the Gulf oil spill is reaching far beyond the fishing and tourism industries that were first hit. Everyone from plumbers to beauticians says they're feeling the pain. But some...
View ArticleGulf of Mexico oil spill lawsuits should be consolidated, panel of federal...
A federal judicial panel in Boise, Idaho, wrestled Thursday with perceptions of bias and conflict among both judges and geography in figuring out where to consolidate more than 300 lawsuits filed...
View ArticleSurface of Gulf of Mexico looks better, but millions of gallons of oil remain...
Charter captain Mike Frenette has been wondering whether the news media are living in a parallel universe. The Internet and mainstream media this week are filled with reports that the BP oil disaster...
View ArticleOil industry safety record blown open
The oil industry has been responsible for thousands of fires, explosions, and leaks over the last decade, killing dozens of people and destroying wildlife and the environment across America, according...
View ArticleStatic kill of BP well could begin over weekend
NEW ORLEANS -- A procedure intended to ease the job of permanently plugging the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could start as early as the weekend, the government's point man for the spill...
View ArticleGulf of Mexico Has Long Been a Sink of Pollution
HOUMA, La. — Loulan Pitre Sr. was born on the Gulf Coast in 1921, the son of an oysterman. Nearly all his life, he worked on the water, abiding by the widely shared faith that the resources of the Gulf...
View ArticleGulf states now worry about restoring their image
Louisiana fishermen pray their livelihood will return, hoteliers in Alabama wait for the phones to ring, and New Orleans' finest chefs cook up public relations strategies rather than po'-boys — all...
View ArticleTranscript of National Incident Commander Thad Allen’s Thursday briefing
This is the transcript of National Incident Commander Thad Allen's briefing with reporters July 29 on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The transcript was ditributed by the Deepwater Horizon Incident...
View ArticleHayward Defends Tenure, BP’s Spill Response
LONDON—Tony Hayward, the departing chief executive of BP PLC, is unrepentant about how the energy giant responded to the U.S.'s largest offshore oil spill. In his first interview after agreeing to step...
View ArticleSeeking oil spill work, homeless fill Gulf Coast shelters
The director of the homeless service center 15 Place in downtown Mobile calls them "rainbow chasers" -- unemployed, sometimes unemployable, people who've come to Mobile in hopes of striking oil cleanup...
View ArticleIs the Government to Blame for Oil Spill?
The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity [1]. In the critical first days after the...
View ArticleNews Cycle Turns in BP’s Favor
BP has received one of the biggest maulings in corporate history over the past three months as it struggled to contain the oil gushing from its well in the Gulf of Mexico. Newspapers, TV anchors,...
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