Kenneth Feinberg

'Green News Report' - December 1, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Methane, Radiation, Drought, Video, Military, Heat Wave, Conservatives, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Kenneth Feinberg, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, World Meteorological Organization, Farming, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Permafrost, Subsidies, Arctic, Army, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Fox News, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Rick Perry, Colorado, Air Pollution, Newt Gingrich, Texas, Green News

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Gulf Oil Spill Claims Czar: Shrimpers' Pain Continues

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Gulf-of-Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Shrimpers, Video, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, House Committee on Natural Resources, Oil Spill, Shrimpers, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Justice Department, Kenneth Feinberg, Green News

The administrator of the $20 billion fund set up by BP to compensate individuals and businesses hurt by last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Thur...

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9/11, BP Spill Victims Advocate Helps Those Affected By Indiana Stage Collapse

AP | By CHARLES WILSON | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Advocacy, Stage Collapse Victims, Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse, Andre Lacy, Victims Rights, Indiana Stage Collapse, Kenneth Feinberg, Impact News

BY CHARLES WILSON, Associated Press -- Indiana officials turned Wednesday to the man who oversaw victims compensation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks a...

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Devastating Report Exposes Unequal Treatment of BP Illness Claims

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Bp, Bp Claims, Environment, Agent Orange, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast, September 11th, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility has broken with his own past practices, as well as the evidence compiled by scientists and the experience of Gulf Coast residents, and refused to pay health claims filed by Gulf Coast residents.

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Special Master Sought To Oversee Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg 'Too Slow'

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Bp Oil Spill Claims, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Claims, BP Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Oil Spill Special Master, Green News

The lead attorneys for people and businesses suing BP over last year's Gulf oil spill want a federal judge to appoint a special master to oversee the ...

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Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund Will Be Audited To Speed Up Process

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Bp, Bp Oil Spill Claims, Politics News, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill, Green News, Gulf Oil Spill Claims Audit, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Eric Holder, Green News

WASHINGTON — An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf...

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Oil Spill Fund Czar: No Claims Filed On Cleanup Illnesses

AP | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Cleanup Illness, Oil Spill Illness, Oil Spill Claims Czar, Gulf Oil Spill Czar, Gulf Oil Spill Fund, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Illness, Gulf Oil Spill Illness, Green News

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The attorney overseeing the payments from a $20 billion compensation fund says he hasn't seen any claims filed suggesting that the...

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BP Oil Spill Compensation Fund Winding Down

Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Oil Spill Fund, Economic Crisis, Business News, Environment, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Kenneth Feinberg, Fishermen, Business News

(Reuters) - The fund BP (BP.L) set up to deal with compensation claims after 2010's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is starting to wind down after paying...

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Gulf Oil Spill: Claims Czar 'Pleased' Despite Glitches, Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Bp, Shrimpers, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf-Spill-Claims-Process, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Oysters, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Danielle Thomas spends much of her day with the phone to her ear, listening to hard-luck stories about Alabama workers still dealing wit...

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Walking for Truth

Cherri Foytlin | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Walking, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Clean Water Act, Oil, BP Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast, Green News

This week, I've come to Washington, D.C. from the Gulf Coast. Thirty-four days and 1,243 miles ago, I set off on foot from New Orleans, Louisiana. Why have I walked the whole way?

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Oil Spill Claims Fund Under Fire

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

Read More: Gulf Claims Fund, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Claims, Obama Administration, Gulf Claims, Gulf Claims Process, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama vowed during a White House speech last June that the $20 billion he helped coax out of BP for an oil spill ...

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'Pay Czar's' Rules Had Few Lasting Effects, Watchdog Says

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Ted Kaufman, Pay Czar, Wall Street Bonuses, Sigtarp, Wall Street Pay, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Obama Pay Czar, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government's restrictions on pay at bailed-out banks had little lasting impact because officials soft-pedaled some issues and d...

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Justice Dept. To Oil Spill Claims Czar: Loosen The Purse Strings

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justice Department Oil Spill, Oil Spill Fund, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg, Oil Spill Payments, Gulf Oil Spill, Thomas Perrelli Ken Feinberg, Justice Department BP, Perrelli Feinberg, Justice Department Feinberg, Thomas Perrelli Oil Spill, Thomas Perrelli BP, Green News

ATLANTA — The job of the administrator of the $20 billion fund for Gulf oil spill victims is not to preserve money or return it to BP, and he sh...

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BP, Feinberg and Some Shameful Legal Ethics

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepwater Horizon, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Green News

In a strong rebuke to BP and the legal ethics of its embattled hired gun, Ken Feinberg, a federal judge ruled it was misleading for Feinberg to call himself "independent" of BP. Finally, the residents in the Gulf may have caught a break.

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Green News Report: February 3, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Co2, Pesticides, House of Representatives, Natural Disasters, Australia, Epa, Agriculture, Regulation, Cars, Green News Report, Pollution, Rising Sea Level, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Snow, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Glenn Beck, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Fedex, Green Jobs, Innovation, Egypt, Solar Panels, Electric Cars, Air Pollution, Coal Mining, Kenneth Feinberg, Solar Power, Clean Energy Jobs, Nuclear Energy, Perchlorate, Coral Reefs, Penn State, Energy Efficiency, China, Green News

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US District Court Finds Feinberg/GCCF NOT Independent of BP

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smith Stag, Judge Carl Barbier, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Kenneth Feinberg, Stuart Smith, Green News

The ruling casts in doubt a large number of claims that have been signed off on by claimants as final settlements in which they agreed not to pursue further litigation in exchange for quick payments.

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Oil Spill Claims Based On Assumption That Gulf Will Recover In 3 Years

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

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, 3 Years Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Kenneth Feinberg, Oil Spill Recovery, Ken Feinberg 3 Years, Feinberg Oil Spill Payments, Feinberg Oil Spill Recovery, Feinberg Oil Spill Claims, Green News

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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Oil Spill Threatens Way Of Life For American-Indian Fishing Villages

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bayou Indians, American Indians, American-Indian Fishing, Louisiana Fishing Village, Native-American Oil Spill, Oil Spill Compensation, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Mative-American Compensation, Green News

MONTEGUT, La. — Even before oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico last spring, Louisiana's American-Indian fishing villages were on the brin...

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Out Of 91,000 Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Only 1 Final Payment Issued

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, BP Compensation, BP Oil Spill Victims Fund, Oil Spill Victims Compensation Fund, Kenneth Feinberg, Compensation Fun, Rudy Toler, Gulf Oil Spill Victims, Mayor Tony Kennon, Green News

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims has issued a final settlement payment to just one of the thousands of p...

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Oil Spill Fund Plagued With Over 7,000 Fraudulent Claims

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

Read More: Oil Spill Fraud, Oil Spill Scams, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Claims Fraud, Gulf Oil Spill Claims Scam, Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fraud, Oil Spill Claims Scam, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — The $20 billion fund responsible for compensating victims of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has received more than 7,000 potentiall...

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Security Increased For Oil Spill Claims Meetings In Wake Of Shooting

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg, Bp Oil Spill Claims, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Kenneth Feinberg Security, Oil Spill Claims Security, Ken Feinberg Security, Green News

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and rising tempers along the Gulf Coast prompted increased security for meetings o...

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Oil Spill Claimants Offered Quick Pay Option With A Catch

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill Fund, Bp Claims, Oil Spill Fund, Oil Spill Claims, Gulf Oil Spill Settlement, Oil Spill Claimants, Kenneth Feinberg, BP Oil Spill Fund, Bp Claimants, Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Feinberg, Bp Oil Spill Settlement, Green News

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The administrator of a $20 billion fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims said Monday that people who want more ...

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BP Spill Fund Slowed By Inflated Claims, Fraud, Administrator Says

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Fund Fraud, Bp Fund, BP Oil Spill Fund, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp Claims, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Kenneth Feinberg, Bp Fund Obama, Business News

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — BP's $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill has been inundated with inflated or unsupported claims an...

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Broken Promises: Gulf Claims Process Falling Short Of Goals After Government Takeover

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast Claims, Gulf Claims Limbo, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Green News

Signs are emerging that Feinberg's goals -- particularly his pledge to respond to personal claims for emergency payments within 48 hours -- may be ove...

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President Should Stop BP Administrator Feinberg From Helping The Chamber Of Commerce

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Chamber of Commerce, Bp, 2010 Elections, Kenneth Feinberg, Elections 2010, Politics News

Why is President Obama letting one of his most important appointees give credibility to his biggest opponent and the BP spill victims' greatest enemy, the Chamber of Commerce?

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