Bottom Line: Gulf Oil Spill Isn’t an Environmental Disaster April 19, 2015 By Paul Barrett In early March a 30,000-pound mat of oily gunk washed up on East Grand Terre, a barrier island in the...
Trial Over, Judge to Decide Extent of BP’s Penalties for Gulf Oil Spill February 4, 2015 By Kevin McGill The latest phase of a trial to determine how much BP should pay in Clean Water Act penalties for the...
West Virginia Storage Tank Rules Make Some Fear Citizen Lawsuits June 16, 2014 By Jonathan Matisse Industry groups are jittery that if state regulators require the wrong type of permit, companies could be subject to citizen...
Court Ruling on Well Co-Ownership Could Cost BP, Anadarko Billions in Fines June 5, 2014 By Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. could face billions of dollars in fines after an appeals court ruled they were...
Ex-BP Engineer Destroyed Gulf Spill Evidence, Jury Told December 17, 2013 By Daniel Lawton and Margaret Cronin Fisk A former BP Plc engineer deliberately destroyed evidence sought by the U.S. for a probe of the 2010 Gulf of...
Clash at Trial: Did BP Lie About Size of Gulf Oil Spill? October 1, 2013 By Kathy Finn In the frantic days after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP lied about how much oil was leaking...
Billions at Stake as BP Oil Spill Trial Enters Next Phase September 27, 2013 By Terry Wade and Andrew Callus BP will battle to hold down fines that could hit $18 billion in a new phase of the Gulf of...
Barring Last Minute Deal, Gulf Oil Spill Trial to Get Underway Monday February 21, 2013 By Braden Reddall and Kristen Hays Nearly three years after a deepwater well rupture killed 11 men, sank a rig and spewed 4 million barrels of...
U.S. to Give BP Evidence on Size of Gulf Oil Spill April 12, 2012 By Jonathan Stempel BP Plc will gain access to U.S. government documents that may shed light on the size of the 2010 Deepwater...
BP Claims U.S. Hiding Evidence on Size of Gulf Oil Spill March 30, 2012 By Jonathan Stempel BP Plc has accused the U.S. government of withholding evidence that may show the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill...