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...
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