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EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Yerington, Us Bureau of Land Management, Mining, Epa, Atlantic Richfield, Uranium, British Petroleum, Nevada, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Nevada Department Of, Uranium Mine, Hydreology, Uranium Mines, New Mexico, Green News

YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...

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BP Slapdown: EPA Really is Back on the Job!

Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Bp, Nrdc, Northwest Indiana, Epa, British Petroleum, Bp Whiting Refinery, Indiana, Coal Industry, Lake Michigan, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection Agency, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Asthma, Air Pollution, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.

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BP Makes "Giant" Oil Discovery In Gulf Of Mexico

Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Bp, Oil, Oil Mexico, British Petroleum, BP Oil, Business News

(AP) BP PLC said Wednesday that it had made a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico but had not yet determined the size and commercial potential...

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BP Says It Has Made 'Giant' New Oil Discovery

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Bp, Gas, Crude Oil Prices, BP Oil, Tiber Well, British Petroleum, Gulf of Mexico Oil, Oil Companies, Tiber, Oil Industry, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Gulf of Mexico, Oil in the Gulf of Mexico, World News

Oil giant BP says it has made a "giant" new oil discovery in its fields in the Gulf of Mexico....

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Jack Straw Denies Claims That Lockerbie Bomber Megrahi Was Released For Libyan Oil

The Guardian | Michael White and Severin Carrell | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Megrahi, Bp, Libya Oil, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, Jack Straw, Scotland, British Petroleum, UK-Libya Prisoner Transfer Agreement, Gadhafi, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Labour, Moammar Gadhafi, Libya, Lockerbie, Pta, World News

The justice secretary, Jack Straw, today denied fresh allegations that he gave the Scottish government the green light to release Abdelbaset al-Megrah...

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A Penny From Heaven

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

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Dan Dorfman

Penny Trenk recently pulled off the kind of financial feat that one might associate with the likes of investment whiz Warren Buffet. In sports, her feat would be like running a 4-minute mile.

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DuPont, BP Receive Go Ahead On Biofuel Venture

The News Journal | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Bp, Biofuels, Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Renewable Energy, Green, Renewables, British Petroleum, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Energy, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News

DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...

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Iraq Oil Fields Receive One Offer; Foreign Firms Reject Government Terms

Al Jazeera | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Bp, Shell, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, Oil, British Petroleum, Iraq, Iraq Oil Reserves, Iraq Oil Fields, Rumaila, World News

Iraq's long-awaited licensing round to develop some of its massive oil reserves has run into trouble as international oil and gas companies rejected a...

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Iraqi Oil: Companies Demand More Money To Accept Bids

AP | Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press Writer | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Iraq Oil Contracts, Exxon Mobil, British Petroleum, Iraq, Oil Companies, Ongc, Iraq Oil Licensing, Business News

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's long-awaited licensing round to develop some of its massive oil reserves stumbled Tuesday as oil and gas companies dug in their...

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BP And China's CNPC Win Iraq Oil Contract

Al Jazeera English | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Bp, China Cnpc, Bp Group, Cnpc, Iraq Oil, British Petroleum, Iraq, Bp Iraq Oil, Iraq Oil Bids, Iraq Oil Contracts, Cnpc Iraq Oil, World News

An oil consortium led by British Petroleum has won a contract to develop a large oil field in Iraq, as dozens of international firms compete for the r...

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BP Has a Deal it Hopes we Can't Refuse: Benzene Releases and Refinery Expansion Plans

Henry Henderson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Benzene, Bp, Lake Michigan, Bp Dirty Fuel, British Petroleum, Air Pollution, Pollution, Energy, Bp Whiting Refinery, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

BP seems to be proposing that to fix the current health-threatening pollution, they need to increase their refinery operations to refine even dirtier petroleum. Does that make any sense?

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MediaBizBuzz on Democrats, Republicans, Gustav and Ike

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

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Jerry Weinstein

Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...

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Sam Stein

McCain And BP Sharing Logo Ideas?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Logo, John McCain, Bp, Mccain Energy, Bp Logo, Oil, British Petroleum, Logos, Alternative Energies, Lexington Project, Politics News

A sharp-eyed Democrat sends over screen grabs of two, similarly designed logos: the image for John McCain's Lexington Project (his energy policy) and ...

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BP's Problems In Russia Mount

New York Times | ANDREW E. KRAMER | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business

Read More: British Petroleum, Oil Industry, Bp, BP Russia, Business News

BP's problems in Russia continued Friday. A Russian environmental agency announced that it would inspect a large oil field in Siberia, the Samotlor, ...

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BP To Plead Guilty To Criminal Environmental Charges, Pay $50 Mil Fine

Wall Street Journal | ANN DAVIS, MATTHEW DALTON, GUY CHAZAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Market, Tony Hayward, British Petroleum, Bp, Propane Market, Business News

New BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward is making sweeping moves to clean up the oil giant's operational and regulatory troubles. Among them: an expec...

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