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Judge Issues BP Oil Spill Ruling

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 04.24.2012

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that BP PLC and one of its minority partners in the blown-out Macondo well are liable for civil p...

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Bigger Payouts For BP's Investors

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 04.08.2012

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LONDON — BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months ...

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BP Cited For 5 More Alleged Violations Related To Blown-Out Well

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 02.06.2012

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BP Plans Alaska Arctic Drilling In 2013

AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 05.25.2011

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JUNEAU, Alaska — BP PLC estimates that it could begin producing oil off Alaska's coast in 2013, despite the fact that construction of the massiv...

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Judge: Spill Claims Czar Not Independent Of BP

AP | HARRY R. WEBER and BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — The administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims is not independent from BP and must stop telling...

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Eskimo Family Beats BP

Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- BP PLC has closed a small portion of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following a judge's ruling that federal regulators didn't get...

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Gulf Oil Spill Report: BP Ignored Warning Signs

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — BP and its contractors missed and ignored warning signs before to the massive oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, showing an "i...

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Ousted CEO Admits BP Unprepared For Gulf Oil Spill: 'We Were Making It Up Day To Day'

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Former BP PLC chief Tony Hayward has acknowledged that the company was unprepared for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the m...

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Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he...

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Risks Remain With Gulf Well Cap Coming Off

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was turned off when a ti...

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Deepwater Drilling Ban Costs 23,000 Oil Jobs

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - The deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico costs at least 23,000 jobs, according to a federal document th...

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BP Oil Spill Coverup: Fishermen Speak Up

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

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While officials claim most of the oil from America's worst-ever spill has disappeared, fishermen hired by BP are still finding tar balls--and being in...

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OIL DOESN'T JUST DISAPPEAR: University Study Contradicts Government Estimates, Up To 79% Could Remain

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of scientists say that most of that BP oil the government claimed was gone from the Gulf of Mexico is actually still there. The scientists be...

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Blessing Of The Boats: Gulf Shrimpers Pray For Good Season Despite Oil

Posted 05.25.2011

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THERIOT, La. (Associated Press) - Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country...

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As Oil Spill Cleanup Shifts Gears, Gulf Residents Fear They'll Be Forgotten

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama administration officials promised Sunday to remain focused on the Gulf Coast -- punishing BP for the worst oil spill in U.S. history, and cleani...

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What The Oil-Rig Cook Saw: Corruption, Mostly

Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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For 15 years, Dan Peterson worked as a cook on oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. During much of that time Peterson lived on Grand Isle, the barrier...

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BP: Static Kill Is Working, 'It's A Milestone'

Posted 05.25.2011

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ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (Associated Press) - Mud that was forced down a blown-out well was holding down the flow of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mex...

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Gulf Crews Prepare To Kill The Spill Permanently

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimenta...

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BP Stations Split Over Changing Name

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should r...

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Gulf Cleanup Will Change Once Oil Stops For Good

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - The government's point man for the Gulf spill plans to meet with coastal parish officials Thursday to talk about what...

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BP: Tony Hayward OUT, Robert Dudley IN As CEO On October 1

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Battered BP began reinventing itself in the shadow of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Tuesday, naming its first American CEO as it re...

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BP: 'No Final Decision' On Replacing Tony Hayward

Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON (Associated Press) - BP PLC said Monday that "no final decision" has been made about management changes, which reportedly include the departure...

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Judge Who Overturned Oil Drilling Moratorium Won't Withdraw From Case

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) -- A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has...

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Coast Guard Official Accused Of Witness Intimidation In Oil Spill Hearings

Posted 05.25.2011

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KENNER, La. (Associated Press) -- A Coast Guard official leading a government probe of the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion was accused today by...

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SIGNS OF FRUSTRATION: Gulf Residents Have Nothing But Time -- To Protest

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you want to know how residents here feel about the oil spill, just read the signs that are posted on seemingly every electrical pole, planted in fr...

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