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7 Hours Of Opening Statements Expected For BP Oil Spill Trial

AP | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of M...

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Views Collide At Meeting On Louisiana's Coastal Plan

Susan Buchanan | Posted 02.01.2012 | Green

A New Orleans open house held by Louisiana's coastal restoration authority last week on a draft of the state's 2012 Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast drew mixed, earnest and sometimes vehement comments.

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Spill Cleanup? Just a Cost of Doing Business?

Jackie Savitz | Posted 01.31.2012 | Green

Read More: Taxes, Tax Code, Congress, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Bp, Tax-Cuts, Subsidies, Tax Breaks, Gulf Oil Spill, Transocean, Legislation, Politics, Politics News, Oil Industry, Big Oil, Hastings, Treasury, Oil, Our Oceans, BP Oil Spill, Oceans, Bill, Green News

Congress and the Administration should be doing much more in response to the Gulf Spill. But at the very least passing the Oil Spill Tax Fairness Act would be a good first step.

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Judge: BP Contract Shielded Transocean From Spill Damages

AP | CAIN BURDEAU and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 01.26.2012 | Green

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Judge: BP Contract Shielded Transocean In Spill

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Can New Magnetic Soap Clean Up Blighted Environment?

Posted 01.27.2012 | Science

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 01/24/2012 03:06 PM EST on LiveScience Most of us think of soap as a way ...

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Louisiana's Forests Could Be Tapped for Energy Soon

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.18.2012 | Green

Roots of mighty oaks push up through New Orleans sidewalks while trees in the metropolis often tower above nearby buildings. Nearly half of Louisiana, in fact, is covered with forests, and the southern U.S. as a whole is considered the nation's wood basket.

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Oil and Herring Don't Mix

Carl Safina | Posted 01.17.2012 | Green

Read More: Salmon, Herring Embryos, Alaska, Shrimp Eggs, Cosco Busan, Bp, Gulf of Mexico, Mother Jones, Sea Otters, Gulf Blowout, San Francisco Bay Bridge, Harlequin Ducks, Chronic Oil, Shellfish, Exxon Valdez, Pink Salmon, Oil Spill, Shrimp, Herring Eggs, Ducks, Bunker Oil, Salmon Spawning, Oil, Prince William Sound, San Francisco, Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, Herring, Deep Water Horizon, Green News

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, it unleashed a regional catastrophe whose effects continue to play out these two decades later. One such apparent effect was the subsequent collapse of the region's herring.

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Wind Power Wafts Into Louisiana, Bringing Jobs And Energy

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.11.2012 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Southwest Power Pool, Nasa, Electricity, Bp, Blade Dynamics, Gulf of Mexico, Comfort Engineered Systems, Entergy Corp., Lake Pontchartrain, Wind Turbines, Solar Power, Swepco, Cleco, Green News

Louisiana and the rest of the South are starting to harness wind power--something that's done on a larger scale in states to the north and west of us.

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Danger Waters

Michael T. Klare | Posted 01.10.2012 | World

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Bp, Strait of Hormuz, Oil, Iran, Cost of Oil, World News

Welcome to an edgy world where a single incident at an energy "chokepoint" could set a region aflame, provoking bloody encounters, boosting oil prices, and putting the global economy at risk.

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Trimming Astroturf From the American Petroleum Institute's 'Vote 4 Energy' Ad

Philip Radford | Posted 01.08.2012 | Green

Read More: Bp, Energy Citizens, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Shell, Greenpeace, Executives, Tar Sands, Commercial, Big Oil, Exxonmobil, Chevron, Astroturf, Jack Gerard, Green News

Americans are clearly too smart to be faked out by Big Oil's phony grass roots strategies. Vote 4 yourself, not oil executives.

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Fixing BP's Big Fix

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 01.06.2012 | Green

Read More: Clean-Up, New Orleans, The Big Fix, Horizon Deepwater, Tar-Smarting, Environmental, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Panama City, Corexit, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Green News

Image Source: Nalco Corexit 9500 MSDS sheet from http://www.msds.com BP is putting a lot of money behind a TV commercial that opens with "This was t...

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Major Oil Producers Look For New Way To Exploit Natural Gas In Alaska

Reuters | Posted 01.06.2012 | Business

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(Adds quotes, details) By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The chief executives of BP and ConocoPhillips, two of Ala...

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Fee Wrinkle Stalls BP Oil Spill Payments

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS — Payments to those damaged by BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resumed Wednesday, a day after administrators of the $20...

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A Gulf Chorus Fights BP's PR War

Rocky Kistner | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green

Read More: Gulf Fishermen, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Gulf Advertising, Bp Advertising, Bp Gulf Crisis, BP Gulf Oil Spill, Bp Gulf Oil Ad, Green News

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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Florida Panhandle Uses BP Money For Xmas Decorations And Senior Citizen Proms

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER and MELISSA NELSON | Posted 12.29.2011 | Miami

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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — Sports towels and fleece blankets. A poker tournament. A $1 million Christmas display. A prom for senior citizens. BP ...

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Mikey Weinstein, A Traitor in the War on Christmas

Chris Rodda | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

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Over the past few months, I've been faced with the utter irony of splitting my time between dealing with the steady stream of lies about my boss and the organization I work for being part of the so-called war on Christmas.

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BP's 21st Century Strategy? Go Backwards.

James Turner | Posted 12.26.2011 | Green

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We all knew, deep in our hearts, that this company's love affair with alternative energy was never more than a casual flirtation.

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2012 Reputation Checklist

Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross | Posted 12.23.2011 | Business

Read More: Bp, Reputation, Online Reputation, News Corp., Reputation Management, Weber Shandwick, Business Social Media, reputation.com, Business, Crisis Communications, Brands, 2012, Business News

Reputation will always continue to matter but for reasons that are less financially-based than in the past.

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Most Embarrassing CEO Quotes Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.20.2011 | Business

Read More: Bp, Brian Moynihan, Tony Hayward, Reed Hastings, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Bank of America, Ceo, Netflix, Executive Compensation, Business News

What with Occupy Wall Street and all, CEOs may be under even more scrutiny than usual this year. So it's fitting that there's been no shortage of nota...

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WATCH: Oil Giant BP In Sticky Situation With Art World

Posted 12.19.2011 | Arts

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BP, the oil mega power infamously known for the disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, is continuing their controversial funding of several B...

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Groups Challenge Gulf Offshore Drilling Leases Auction

AP | ALAN SAYRE | Posted 12.14.2011 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS — The federal government will move ahead with the first auction of offshore petroleum leases in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwat...

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In BP's Gulf, a Movie Runs Through It as Miracle Hopes Fade

Rocky Kistner | Posted 02.06.2012 | Green

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The Big Fix is mandatory viewing for those who want to know what really happened on the ground along the bayous and beaches of a coast that is wedded to oil.

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BP Makes High-Stakes Oil Spill Accusation Against Halliburton

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 02.04.2012 | Business

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NEW ORLEANS — BP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry th...

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Oil Companies Powned in Epic Switcheroo Operation [Video]

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.31.2012 | Green

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Environment campaigners duped representatives of major oil companies into attending a meeting about the harsh realities of offshore oil drilling, instead of their intended meeting with Greenland officials to talk about opening up Northern seas to drilling.

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Gulf Seafood Harvesters Offered More Money For BP Spill Damage

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.30.2011 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS -- Gulf of Mexico shrimpers and crabbers, who have reported diminished catches since the BP oil spill, are being offered a more generous s...

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