(Wall Street Journal) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil oil-spill lawsuit Wednesday against a BP PLC unit and several other companies, the federal government’s first major legal action in the Gulf of Mexico disaster. The other defendants are subsidiaries of Transocean Ltd., which owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon oil rig; Anadarko Petroleum […]
(Businessweek) — Last year, Mary Metoyer’s New Orleans flooring company took in just $80,000 in revenue, one-third of her annual revenue before Hurricane Katrina struck. Her customer base of landlords and homeowners had started to return, but many were then hurt financially by the BP (BP) oil spill. When the bank she went to for a […]
(On Earth) — Elton “Hambone” Encalade is one of the first oystermen to greet me as I pull into Beshel’s Boat Launch in Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana. He’s sitting on a plastic milk crate that seems too flimsy to support his muscular frame. Hambone has high cheekbones, a beard flecked with gray, and a gaze that is […]
(NYT) — The oil that leaked from a pipeline beneath a warehouse complex in suburban Romeoville for four days was equivalent to only several hours worth of what leaked from the BP gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Although the 250,000-gallon spill in Illinois that started on Sept. 10 was relatively small, it had an […]
(AJC) — Mark Link, a Midtown attorney, is one of the hundreds of metro Atlantans who own vacation property along the Gulf Coast. Now that the well has been capped, he worries more about what may happen next: That as the images of spewing oil and petroleum-soaked wildlife disappear, so will the urgency to restore […]
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(Market Watch) — BP’s new chief executive, Robert Dudley, is an industry veteran with wide-ranging qualifications, but it was his American passport as much as his in-depth knowledge of Russia and his green credentials that sealed the deal for the board. BP said Tuesday that, by mutual agreement, Tony Hayward will step down as group chief […]
(Black America Web) — Grow up on the water, the children of southern Louisiana learn, and you’ll never go hungry. As long as you can toss a line, a net or a trap, you can eat — and eat well. Or you could, until now. Millions of gallons of oil from the April 20 explosion of […]
NAACP outraged over job placement of African-Americans in oil spill recovery.
(Daily Beast) — As oil continues to gush into the Gulf, the oil giant’s embattled CEO, Tony Hayward, is on an around-the-world tour to save his company and his reputation, but Tom Bower reports that he’s likely to be gone soon. Read More…
(Politico) — The BP oil disaster is back in the spotlight.In recent weeks, a presidential town hall meeting on the economy, immigration reform talks, Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination hearings, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resignation and congressional huddles on clean energy legislation all provided the Obama administration a small reprieve from relentless news coverage of the […]