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BP 'urges PM to help' with Gulf of Mexico oil spill costs
ITV News
British Petroleum has urged David Cameron to step in over the company's rising compensation costs for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, according to the BBC. Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater ...

Telegraph.co.uk
BP to ask David Cameron for help as escalating Gulf oil spill costs raise ...
Telegraph.co.uk
In March, BP asked a US judge to suspend the $8.5bn (£5.6bn) settlement it reached with local businesses over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, claiming that companies unscathed by the disaster were receiving windfalls. In a filing with the court in New ...

Telegraph.co.uk
BP to ask David Cameron for help as rising Gulf oil spill costs raise takeover ...
Telegraph.co.uk
In March, BP asked a US judge to suspend the $8.5bn (£5.6bn) settlement it reached with local businesses over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, claiming that companies unscathed by the disaster were receiving windfalls. In a filing with the court in New ...
National Geographic launching locally built travel guides in BP oil spill statesNOLA.com
BP 'urges PM to help' with Gulf of Mexico oil spill costsITV News
BP seeks US court relief from 'fictitious' claims stemming from 2010 Gulf of ...Fox News
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IBTimes.co.uk
BP Fears Takeover Bid as Oil Spill Compensation Costs Escalate
IBTimes.co.uk
UK major BP is increasingly worried about the possibility of a takeover bid from another oil company, as it struggles under the strain of mounting compensation costs in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Share article. According to a BBC ...

National Geographic launching locally built travel guides in BP oil spill states
NOLA.com
National Geographic on Wednesday announced an effort to promote tourism in the states most affected by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The idea is to create a travel website, mobile application and printed travel guide that present ...

MTV Hive
How Music Helped the Gulf Shores Recovery
MTV Hive
The truth about the music community in the Alabama beach town of Gulf Shores is that, until the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2009 happened, it didn't really exist. That's something that the people of the town –- whose main industry has always been ...

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Ex-BP Engineer Claims Justice Department Withheld Evidence - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
NEW ORLEANS -- A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico claims that Justice Department prosecutors withheld evidence and should be sanctioned. U.S. District Judge ...

FuelFix (blog)
Former BP exec's lawyer denies conflict of interest in Gulf oil spill case
FuelFix (blog)
A former BP engineer and two BP well-site leaders also face criminal charges in the Gulf oil spill case. Read ongoing FuelFix coverage of the legal trials surrounding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Oil spill restoration money will be used on Galveston ...

Foundation will direct $356 million from oil spill criminal cases to Florida ...
The Florida Current
+ responses. Natural resource projects in Florida will receive $356 million from plea agreements in criminal cases involving the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced the establishment of the Gulf Environmental ...

WPTV
Gulf Oil Spill-Indictment
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico claims that Justice Department prosecutors withheld evidence and should be sanctioned. U.S. District ...
Ex-BP Engineer Claims Evidence Withheld by US in Spill CaseBusinessweek

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Bloomberg
BP to apply Gulf of Mexico oil spill lessons to Great Australian Bight
The Australian
In the process, the company has acknowledged that drilling in what is viewed as Australia's last frontier for giant oilfields will be viewed by some in the context of its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. BP goes to some length in its initial ...
BP sets eyes on deep Australian watersUPI.com
BP seeks environmental approval for Great Australian Bight drillingPlatts
BP pushes ahead with Bight oil searchABC Online
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Crosscut
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fund is launched to restore Louisiana ...
NOLA.com
The projects also are required to be in reasonable proximity to where effects from the oil spill occurred, are cost-effective, maximize environmental benefits, are science-based, and that produce measureable and meaningful conservation outcomes to ...
Millions of BP settlement funds go to tourism industryWorld Socialist Web Site
Guest letter: Gulf doctor warns MayflowerLog Cabin Democrat
Texas gets $203 million to offset damage from BP spillAustin American-Statesman
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Crosscut
Gulf Coast Deepwater oil spill resources to be restored by $2.5B benefit fund
Water World
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2013 -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced the public launch of the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund through which NFWF will administer and monitor $2.544 billion from plea agreements ...
Millions of BP settlement funds go to tourism industryWorld Socialist Web Site
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fund is launched to restore Louisiana ...NOLA.com
BP greenwashes as the climate dangers growCrosscut
Log Cabin Democrat -Austin American-Statesman
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Louisiana Revisited: Anger and sadness on Grand Isle as BP oil spill worries ...
CultureMap Houston
Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster. She recently returned to Louisiana. This is her fifth column in a series. On February 5th, I watched a documentary on the Science ...

Crosscut
Millions of BP settlement funds go to tourism industry
World Socialist Web Site
The project is part of a $594 million plan announced last week by BP and the five Gulf Coast states affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The announcement of the plan directly follows the wrap-up of the first phase of the oil spill trial, in ...
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fund is launched to restore Louisiana ...NOLA.com
BP greenwashes as the climate dangers growCrosscut
Guest letter: Gulf doctor warns MayflowerLog Cabin Democrat

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FuelFix (blog)
Fish Embryos Reveal that Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Still Lingers - Oil Price
OilPrice.com
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least a year or more, new research shows. The researchers found that Gulf of Mexico killifish embryos exposed to sediments from ...
BP exec tells OTC audience about lessons learned in Gulf spill responseFuelFix (blog)
Oil spill detrimental to Gulf species - The ConversationThe Conversation
Coastal advocates question spill fine spendingHouma Courier
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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FuelFix (blog)
BP exec tells OTC audience about lessons learned in Gulf spill response
FuelFix (blog)
Even as BP continues to fight litigation that could result in it having to pay billions of dollars more in fines and damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a senior company official says the British oil giant has already gone “above ...

Marketplace.org
BP oil spill settlement payouts surpass $2 billion mark, administrator says
NOLA.com
The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center, which is overseeing the multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and private claimaints, has now paid out more than $2 billion to businesses and individuals who lost money as a result of the 2010 oil spill, the ...
A controversy over how Deepwater Horizon cleanup funds are being spentMarketplace.org
Federal judge orders former BP engineer to turn over emails - Bayoubuzz.comBayoubuzz

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Marketplace.org
Federal judge orders former BP engineer to turn over emails
NOLA.com
A federal judge has ordered a former BP engineer who was criminally charged in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster to turn over an unredacted email chain between him and his lawyer that the British oil giant had previously tried to shield.
A controversy over how Deepwater Horizon cleanup funds are being spentMarketplace.org

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The Vancouver Observer
In the Gulf, a long history of oil spills and cover-ups
Grist
When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in 2010, it hemorrhaged roughly 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. We know now, thanks to recent court hearings and settlements, that all this happened because oil-company managers were ...
Survey: Hotels Still Recovering From Gulf Oil SpillSuccessful Meetings
EDITORIAL: What were lessons of the BP oil spill?Gaston Gazette

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