Obama Plans Fourth Tour of Gulf Oil Spill
WASHINGTON (June 14) -- President Barack Obama is going back to the Gulf of Mexico, this time venturing on to new ground tainted by oil, before he speaks to the nation about what he's seen in the ...
BP Storm: Tulane Prof Oliver Houck Warned for Decades of Peril of Lax Energy Regulation
NEW ORLEANS -- Page One of the June 11 Times-Picayune on the BP disaster carried the headline "Spill Could be Double the Size" with the subhead, "40,000 barrels may be flowing daily." The wide ...
BP's Spill Relief Wells Draw Scrutiny
NEW ORLEANS (June 13) - In the chaotic days after the oil rig explosion, BP engineers and federal regulators desperate to plug the blown-out well scrambled to complete plans for a pair of deepwater ...
BP Protests: Do They Hit the Right Target?
CHARLOTTE, N.C.(June 13) -- Do protests against the company involved in America's worst oil spill disaster hurt BP's excess or independent businesses? It's a question being asked as conditions on the ...
Obama to Press BP on Oil Spill Compensation Fund
(June 13) -- A growing chorus of federal and state government officials is pressing BP (BP) to reserve billions of dollars in an escrow account to cover clean-up costs from the Deepwater Horizon ...
BP Protests: Do They Hit the Right Target?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Do protests against the company involved in America's worst oil spill disaster hurt BP's excess or independent businesses? It's a question being asked as conditions on the Gulf ...
Pressure Mounts on BP for Cleanup Efforts, Funds
NEW ORLEANS (June 13) -- BP mounted a more aggressive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as it deployed undersea sensors to better measure the ferocious flow of crude while ...
Gulf Spill's Reverberations Felt as Far as Bulgaria
ATHENS, Greece (June 13) -- As the Gulf of Mexico spill continues, the damage is becoming ever more apparent. The catastrophe has cast a direct threat on plant and animal life, fragile coastlines and ...
Obama Wants Independent Party to Administer Oil Claims
WASHINGTON (June 13) - President Barack Obama will demand that BP create a special account with "substantial" reserves to pay Gulf oil claims and is readying aid packages for the region, his top ...
Obama and British PM Chat About Oil Spill, BP
(June 13) -- In the wake of his withering criticism of BP for its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, President Barack Obama spoke with British Prime Minister David Cameron for a half-hour ...
Coast Guard Tells BP to Step Up Containment Efforts
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (June 12) -- The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant ...
Spill Oil Could Soon Seep Into Your Local Gas Station
NEW ORLEANS (June 12) -- Oil from the nation's worst spill could soon end up at gas stations, construction sites and even grocery stores once BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf ...
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