Florida won’t sue Transocean over Gulf oil spill
Florida will not join Alabama, Louisiana and more than 800 other plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against Transocean, the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico a year...
View ArticleBiloxi local government defending shopping with BP oil spill grants
Local government leaders in Biloxi are defending what has been called a shopping spree with millions of dollars of emergency grants from BP, saying they were uncertain what they needed for the...
View ArticleStudy: Gulf spill's social costs may linger for years
A team that's spent two decades studying psychological distress among residents who lived near the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska has found striking similarities among those affected by the Deepwater...
View ArticleBP earmarking $1 billion to restore natural resources in Gulf
Negotiations between the Natural Resource Trustees and BP has resulted in a $1 billion down payment toward early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico for damage to natural resources resulting...
View ArticleInterior secretary defends offshore-drilling permit changes
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday defended his agency's changes in the year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, dismissing criticism of a lengthier and more extensive permitting process as...
View ArticleOil spill was economic, not ecological disaster, Barbour says
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour came to the U.S. Capitol on Thursday with a message: last summer's Gulf of Mexico oil spill was an economic — not an environmental - disaster, and he wants lawmakers to...
View ArticleOne year after Gulf oil spill, Florida tourism is up but questions remain
All-terrain vehicles still rumble across the eight-mile stretch of Pensacola Beach each morning, driven by workers looking for tar balls. One year after crude from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...
View ArticleSenate panel opens door for BP rig workers' families to sue
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved a bill to help the families of the 11 victims of last year's Deepwater Horizon blowout by changing outdated federal maritime laws, one going back to...
View ArticleNOAA's theory: Shrimpers at fault in sea turtles' death
NOAAs theory that shrimpers are to blame for almost 1,000 sea-turtle deaths since the BP oil spill unleashed a fury of comments in two languages Wednesday.
View ArticleBP to return to Ocean Springs, Miss. for spill clean-up
Dark-amber mats of oil as big as a large mans foot sit on the sand 10 feet from the water, and farther inland along the beaches of Horn Islands west end. Recreational boater Nick Mason pointed out a...
View ArticleFeds nab Florida fisherman for attempting to defraud regarding oil spill
Eliu Gonzalez, a South Florida fisherman who worked the waters off Miami-Dade and Monroe counties for more than a decade, lived hundreds of miles from the Deepwater Horizon rig when it exploded in...
View ArticleTony Hayward of BP Gulf spill fame back in oil business
Tony Hayward, the oil executive Americans learned to hate during last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is back in business, this time in the rich oil fields of northern Iraq.
View ArticleBill to steer BP oil spill fines to Gulf states passes committee
A bipartisan effort to secure at least 80 percent of fines from the BP Gulf oil spill for the five Gulf Coast states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas — advanced Wednesday as the...
View ArticleGulf state lawmakers work to bring oil spill money home
Members of the House of Representatives from the five Gulf Coast states — Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Texas — announced Wednesday that they had agreed on a bill to direct at least 80...
View ArticleFollowing complaints from Gulf, Congress seeks audit of BP oil spill fund
Republican Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Marco Rubio of Florida, unhappy with the handling of the $20 billion fund set up by BP to compensate victims of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, won Senate...
View ArticleNOAA: BP oil spill may have contributed high mortality rate of dolphins
NOAA officials called a national media briefing Thursday and said that the BP oil spill could have played a role in the high number of dolphin deaths in the northern Gulf since 2010.
View ArticleRestore Act measure to boost BP cleanup could receive vote today
The House is expected to vote later today on an amendment pushed by Gulf State lawmakers to dedicate 80 percent of the fines collected from the BP oil spill to a trust fund for coastal restoration of...
View ArticleSenate approves plan to send BP fines to Gulf restoration
The Senate approved a highway bill Wednesday that includes a long-sought provision for the Gulf Coast: A guarantee that 80 percent of the fines collected from the April 2010 BP oil spill — an amount...
View ArticleExperts: Another BP-style Gulf blowout all too possible
Much more needs to be done to lower the risks of another offshore oil disaster like the BP blowout two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, the presidential commission that investigated the disaster...
View ArticleRemarks about the BP settlement from Asst. Attorney Gen. Lanny Breuer
REMARKS AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY BY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL LANNY A. BREUER AT THE BP PRESS CONFERENCE.
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