Bp Gulf Oil Spill

Oil Spill Still Weighing On BP

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

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* Q1 replacement cost net ex one-offs $4.80 bln vs f'cast $5.10 bln * To sell 50,000 bbls/day output in Gulf of Mexico ...

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Senate Approves Plan For Oil Spill Fines

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved Thursday using the bulk of water pollution fines stemming from the 2010 Gulf oil spill to pay for restoration ...

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Will Americans Buy BP's Slick PR Blitz Following Gulf Oil Spill?

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 01.08.2012

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NEW ORLEANS -- Nearly 20 months after its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill – and just as the nation focuses on New Orleans, host of the BCS titl...

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A Gulf Chorus Fights BP's PR War

Rocky Kistner | Posted 02.29.2012

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Maybe next year will be different. Perhaps the powers that be will confront the fact that the oil damage has not magically gone away and that the fertile fishing grounds of the Gulf appear to be getting worse.

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A Fisherman's Farewell? Gulf Residents Fight for Their Future 15 Months After the BP Blowout

Rocky Kistner | Posted 12.26.2011

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Ever since BP's mammoth Deepwater Horizon rig blew 15 months ago, the lives of thousands of fishermen across the Gulf have never been the same. Many say they were poisoned by oil and chemical dispersants after being thrust into cleanup jobs they were woefully unprepared for.

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BP, Anadarko Settle Gulf Disaster Claims

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 12.17.2011

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LONDON — Anadarko Petroleum Co. has agreed to pay $4 billion to BP PLC as part of a settlement related to last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, ...

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Disaster in the Gulf: So What Are We Doing About It?

Rocky Kistner | Posted 12.06.2011

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In the Gulf, new information is confirming fears that fish and wildlife -- and millions of people on the Coast -- are being seriously impacted by the 4.9 million barrels of BP oil spewed from the ocean deep last year.

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Top Interior Official Jumps To Firm Representing BP Over Gulf Oil Spill

AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The former chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has taken a job with one of the law firms representing BP in legal proceedin...

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Scientists: Funding Coming Too Late To Assess Gulf Oil Spill's Impact

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 06.24.2011

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NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists say it is taking far too long to dole out millions of dollars in BP funds for badly needed Gulf oil spill research, and it c...

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Today, Youth Across the U.S. Take Action to Make BP Pay!

Cherri Foytlin | Posted 06.20.2011

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Together, our movement can be strong enough to topple the deadly influence that big polluters have in Washington, and across the nation. With your help, we can restore the Gulf Coast and hold BP accountable.

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America Moves On From Spill, Gulf Coast Feels Abandoned

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.25.2011

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — About 800 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Dave Edmonds is struggling to remind people about the BP oil spill. There aren't ma...

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Gulf Coast Restoration: Where Does Obama Stand?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the context of the encouraging words the president spoke in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, it would be refreshing to see the federal government helping to make things better along the Gulf Coast, instead of worse.

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It's Time We Take the "For Sale" Sign Off the Capitol Lawn

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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When candidates have to raise millions of dollars just to run a competitive campaign, they're going to turn to wealthy donors, and the voice of the everyday American isn't going to be heard.

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BP Partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Blasts BP's 'Reckless Decisions And Actions'

AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUSTON — Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which owns a quarter of BP PLC's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, late Friday blasted BP "reckless ...

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Alex Hubbard Struggles To Find Work After Returning To Lower Ninth Ward

Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Hubbard has many things in his life to be thankful for. He has two daughters in college, two more finishing high school and a newly constructed h...

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The Final Lesson of BP

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

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The will of the American people is being subordinated to the demands of giant money-making machines called global corporations that can now spend or threaten to spend unlimited amounts of money in support of any politician.

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Feinberg: BP Is Stalling Payments To Victims

CNBC | Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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British energy giant BP is holding up payments to economic victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of a $20 billion c...

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Gulf Oil Spill: BP Tries To Limit Release Of Oil Spill Research

Posted 05.25.2011

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RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press HOUSTON -- Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offeri...

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Is America on a Losing Track?

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.25.2011

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For many Americans it is unthinkable that the unfettered marketplace will not solve all our problems or that contemporary capitalism has broken its promise to provide a good life for all. Repair requires fundamental structural change.

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Three Of Every Four Oil And Gas Lobbyists Worked For Federal Government

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Kimberly Kindy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the u...

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Gulf Oil Spill: BP tries threading tube, latest bid to plug leak

AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROBERT, La. — BP was confident Saturday its latest experiment using a mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexi...

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Your New BFF, the Chemical Industry

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

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The SCC says we need "Public safety information for all chemicals, and prompt action to phase out the most dangerous chemicals." Our BFF only wants to studying a handful of those chemicals.

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America, This Is Our Wake-up Call

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

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I don't care how much money the oil industry pumps into lobbying ($169 million in 2009) -- this disaster should make clear to every American that the price for prolonging our dependence on oil is just too high.

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BP CEO "Predicts ‘Illegitimate' Lawsuits Because ‘This Is America'

Climate Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP is financially responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, so it is desperately trying the limit the financial and legal fall out....

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BP's Gulf Coast Oil Spill Containment Problem Is Unprecedented

LA Times | Jill Leovy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The company must stop a relentless gush of oil nearly a mile below the surface, in a situation that hasn't been dealt with before....

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