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WASHINGTON -- Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sat down in the Oval Office to brief him. After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. "Where are you coming out on the offs...

Captain of ship and his navigation officer sentenced to seven months in prison for causing environmental disaster.

LAFITTE, La. -- Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers get back to work in Louisiana's rich waters. This spring, though, catches are down, docks are idle and anxiety is growing that the ill effects of the mas...

A pipeline company will pay $1.75 million to end a criminal case filed over a 2010 oil spill at the Port of Los Angeles, according to lawyers for City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. Crimson Pipeline Management and its affiliated companies will make the payment to resolve allegations they allowed petroleum to wash into the Dominguez Channel and, eventually, the harbor. The company also had been accused...

Nalco Company, the maker of Corexit used to disperse oil from the BP spill, is using Louisiana state credits to build an $18.7 million polymer facility at its Garyville plant -- 35 miles upriver from New Orleans.

A section of the M8 Dublin to Cork motorway is to be closed for a number of hours today because of an oil spill.

There is a risk of oil spilling from the 50m fishing trawler that ran aground off Clifton, the city's disaster risk management centre said on Sunday.

A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up oil in water with unparalleled efficiency has just been developed, with help from computational simulations.

Infamous ship responsible for Alaska oil spill won’t be allowed into India until it has been decontaminated, court rules

India's Supreme Court bars the giant oil tanker Exxon Valdez, which was involved in one of the world's worst oil spills, from entering the country to be broken up.

SChas banned the Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst US oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.

An investigator for the Interior Department’s Inspector General claims the White House hindered an investigation into a report on the BP oil spill by blocking access to a key official and email records, the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting. The investigator was trying to determine whether the White House intentionally edited the report to create the false impression that outside experts ...

A federal judge in Louisiana on Thursday rescheduled the liability trial in the BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico and postponed it to early next year from later this year.

BP has won a legal fight with the US government after a judge ruled that the trial to apportion blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will not happen until 2013.

"Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!," Stephen King's op-ed in The Daily Beast was published on April 30, but it's perfect for May Day: The Koch brothers are right-wing creepazoids, but they’re giving right-wing creepazoids. Here’s an example: 68 million fine American dollars to Deerfield Academy. Which is great for Deerfield Academy. But it won’t do [...]

US energy giant ConocoPhillips China will pay 1.09 billion yuan ($173.02 million) in compensation for oil spills that occurred in North China's Bohai Bay starting in June 2011, the State Oceanic Administration said.

Amnesty International has reported that Shell lied about the magnitude of an oil spill in the Niger Delta.

CEMENT contractor Halliburton is objecting to a proposed $US7.8 billion ($7.6 billion) settlement between BP and a plaintiffs group representing more than 100,000 victims of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was telling the public at the time....

Justice Department files first criminal charges related to 2010 oil spill, accuses former engineer of destroying records.

Yes, it was a crime; it was a crime against nature and against the law of the land, and now the first criminal charges are being filed, according to an exclusive report at NPR. "The first criminal charges in connection with the BP oil spill have been filed against a former BP engineer named Kurt Mix," NPR's Carrie Johnson reports exclusively. Carrie just told our Newscast unit that Mix has be...

A former BP drilling engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges of intentionally destroying text messages sought by federal authorities as evidence in the wake of the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, the Justice Department said. Read full article >>

A former BP engineer is accused in the US of obstruction of justice over the 2010 Gulf oil spill - the first criminal charge in connection with the disaster.

(Reuters) - Shrimp processors have asked a federal judge to delay preliminary approval of BP Plc's proposed settlement of economic damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, arguing that it is unfair to parts of the shrimp industry.

Tony Hayward received the windfall from Genel Energy, the firm he helped set up to look for oil in northern Iraq following his departure as BP's chief executive.

Two years ago, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform led to the spilling of almost five million barrels of oil in just a handful of months. I wrote the following post in June of that year, two months after the spill began. Even now, we still don’t really know how much of an effect the oil spilled and the subsequent cleanup efforts will have on the Gulf ecosystem. At least, as I c...

Tony Hayward’s oil venture Genel Energy has been lambasted for revealing an £11m payday for the former BP boss on the day of the second anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

There should be a criminal prosecution that holds BP individuals responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be far from over.

7,300 claims with BP's $20 billion compensation fund were shortchanged or wrongfully denied, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) -- When fishermen returned to the deep reefs of the Gulf of Mexico weeks after BP's gushing oil well was capped, they started catching grouper and red snapper with large open sores and strange black streaks, lesions they said they'd never seen and promptly blamed on the spill....

garymortimer writes with this excerpt from sUAS News: "The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science announced today that community-generated open source maps — captured from kites and balloons — have been added to Google Earth. The 45 plus maps are the first aerial maps produced by citizens to be featured on the site, and are highlighted on the Google Lat Long Blog. The Public Laborato...

The estimated multibillion-dollar settlement in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was fleshed out on Wednesday in hundreds of pages of motions and exhibits.

(Reuters) - BP Plc has reached settlements to resolve billions of dollars of claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and asked a U.S. judge for a long delay in any trial over remaining disputes stemming from the disaster.

Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It's unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen. More »

Members of the presidential panel that investigated the 2010 BP oil rig explosion sharply criticized Congress on Tuesday and gave the Obama administration and the oil industry mixed marks.

Juan Gutierrez, who worked on Texas farms in his youth, now leads an environmental services company that has been involved in cleanups after Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Questions about the long-term impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico are still playing out in the seafood industry. Final data on the 2011 catch have not been released, and the impact of the spill on sea life could take still more time to show up, according to scientists and the Gulf seafood industry.

Investors group will vent its displeasure during AGM by voting against £4.6m remuneration package for chief executiveA substantial pay revolt will be mounted by shareholders at the annual general meeting of BP on Thursday following the board decision to give more than £4m remuneration to chief executive, Bob Dudley, despite a depressed stock price.A group of investors will vote in protest again...

PARIS (AP) -- Oil giant Total has moved to reassure investors and environmental activists over the past week that the financial and environmental damage from its gas leak in the North Sea would be limited, a task made more difficult by comparisons to BP's handling of a catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico nearly two years ago....

BP Plc has accused the US government of withholding evidence that may show the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was smaller than federal officials claimed, a key issue in determining the oil company’s liability.

NEW ORLEANS -- The hurricane and the oil spill hit five years apart. At various times the team had neither a permanent home nor an owner. The best players wanted to leave, the league was locked out and the country was in recession.

Locals, travel companies and the regional government of the Canaries all oppose prospecting so close to the popular holiday islands and fear an oil spill could ruin their tourism industry forever.

Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident

NOAA says a link to the BP oil spill in 2010 is likely, although evidence is not conclusive.

Fears exist spill could cause permanent damage to key industry

Brazil has barred Transocean and Chevron officials from leaving the country, suggesting they may face criminal charges tied to a deep-water oil spill last year.

Seventeen employees of the American oil giant Chevron and the rig operator Transocean could face charges connected to an offshore oil spill, adding to Chevron’s woes in Brazil.

The explosion on April 20, 2010, on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers and spewed oil for 87 days. It soaked hundreds of miles of Gulf Coast shoreline in caramel-colored oil.

With oil topping $100 a barrel, BP’s $7.8 billion Gulf oil spill settlement is worth every penny.

A $7.8 billion settlement with victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill markedly reduces investor uncertainty.

Following BP’s agreement to settle claims from businesses and individuals harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, shares of the integrated oil major rallied more than 1% Monday morning before losing some of the gain. Futures for the U.S. crude oil benchmark rose marginally to $106.76 per barrel. Shares of BP (BP) are trading around [...]

BP AND the lawyers representing more than 100,000 victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill have reached an estimated $7.8 billion (€5.9 billion) out-of-court settlement over damages, delaying the trial that had been due to start today.

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The estimated $7.8 billion deal struck by BP Plc with businesses and individuals suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could speed up payments to thousands of claimants and offers lawyers a potential windfall in legal fees.

BP reaches £4.9billion deal with thousands of people hit by by the oil giant's Gulf of Mexico disaster in 2010

BP has reached an estimated $7.8 billion (€5.9 billion) deal with businesses suing over the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

BP PLC has reached a $7.8 billion agreement with plaintiffs suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a court order on Friday, but the company still faces claims by the U.S. government and drilling partners.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said his team is ready to proceed with a civil trial next week to determine responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from the BP Plc well, despite settlement talks to resolve some of the matters.

It's been nearly two years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but the legal battle over the spill is just beginning. On Monday, a trial begins in Louisiana federal court to determine civil liability for the April 2010 oil spill, the worst in U.S. history. Among the defendants are BP, the well operator and majority shareholder in the venture, rig-owner Transocean, con...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 caused the world’s largest offshore oil spill. It has also led to a mammoth legal action, as tens of thousands of plaintiffs – and the US government – fight for compensation, writes Ed Crooks

Reuters says criminal charges are likely "within weeks" against Chevron Corp. and some of its managers for a November oil spill off Brazil.

Conoco Phillips and China National Offshore Oil Corporation agree a compensation deal for the oil spill at their field in China.

Spock takes his fair share of abuse for being the stereotypically unemotional, weird and strangely driven scientist. But today's scientists could learn a lot from him. Marine scientist Christopher Reddy argues that Spock is the ideal role model for scientists dealing with a crisis, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A shipwreck salvage company has warned that it would take two to four weeks to suck out half a million gallons of fuel from the Costa Concordia's 17 tanks.

Possibility of an oil spill is too much of a risk for many inhabitants of Kitimat

Possibility of an oil spill is too much of a risk for many inhabitants of Kitimat

Der Amerikaner entscheidet sich genauso frei wie ich auch, nur eben unter anderen Voraussetzungen. Oder würden Sie sagen, meine Entscheidung sei nicht frei? Egal ob Fukushima, oil spill oder Finankrise: Leider habe ich von vielen immer erst NACH der Katastrophe gehört, der Staat sei seinen Kernaufgaben nicht nachgekommen. Vorher klang das immer ganz anders. Wäre vielleicht gut für die Glaubwür...

Microbes kept the oil and gas spewing from the Macondo well from becoming even more of a disaster, preventing the Deepwater Horizon blowout from deeply befouling the Gulf coast. But these hydrocarbon-chompers got an assist from the Gulf of Mexico—the prevailing tides and currents helped keep hydrocarbon-eating microbes on the job, according to the results [...]

Ocean currents likely looped puzzling undersea oil plumes back around in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill disaster site, report scientists.

A CONTAINER ship grounded on a reef off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island succumbed to stormy weather and broke into two on Saturday night, releasing cargo into the water and prompting fears of a new oil spill.

Wreck of Rena country’s worst maritime environmental disaster

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast since October has split in two, spilling sea containers and debris and sparking fears of a fresh oil spill, maritime officials said Sunday. The wreck of the Greek-owned Rena was described as New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster even before the rear section of the ship, lashed by pounding seas, broke away ov...

A recent oil spill off Nigeria could have a severe environmental impact on fishing and the coastline, Friends of the Earth warns.

CNOOC, China's largest offshore energy explorer, said Thursday that it will repair a leaking pipeline after inert gas replaces natural gas in the South China Sea, and no oil spill was reported.

Latest Shell oil spill is comparable to the Exxon Mobil spill of 1998, say authorities as emergency measures are put in place to protect the coast.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. offshore oil and gas drillers need to take a more systematic approach to safety in all aspects of their operations to prevent another catastrophe like last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a scientific panel said on Wednesday. [More]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chevron Corp will brief U.S. offshore drilling regulators on its recent oil spill off the coast of Brazil, an agency official said on Monday.

The first group of penguins affected by an oil spill off the coast of New Zealand have been released back into the wild.

Market reaction to Chevron's oil spill off the coast of Brazil shows how times have changed since BP's Macondo disaster last year.

Oceanographers say methane 10,000 to 100,000 times higher than normal near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are depleting oxygen in the water.