Claims, Oil and Resentments Linger Four Years After BP Oil Spill April 21, 2014 By Jemima Kelly Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle,...
Oil Firms, Regulators Miss Major Accident Indicators: Gulf Spill Report July 25, 2012 Transocean and BP, trade associations, and U.S. regulators largely judged the safety of offshore facilities by focusing on routine personal...
Florida Seeks to Delay Approval of $7.8 Billion BP Settlement April 16, 2012 By Erin Geiger Smith The Attorney General for the State of Florida has asked a federal court to delay granting preliminary approval of BP...
Analyst: BP to Agree to $20-25 Billion Gulf Oil Spill Settlement with Justice Dept. January 19, 2012 By Tom Bergin BP is likely to agree to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $20-$25 billion to settle all charges around the...
Court Dismisses U.S. Suit Against BP Executives, Directs Investors to File in UK September 19, 2011 By Moira Herbst Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal last week of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last...
U.S. Report on BP Oil Spill Imminent September 14, 2011 By Ayesha Rascoe and Roberta Rampton A U.S. government team investigating last year’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will blame BP and its contractors for...
Mississippi Sues BP Gulf Oil Claims Fund July 13, 2011 By Moira Herbst Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of BP’s $20 billion fund for...
BP Accused of Trying to Limit Gulf Oil Disaster Claims July 12, 2011 By Michael Peltier Authorities will keep up pressure on BP Plc to ensure it fully compensates victims of last year’s Gulf of Mexico...
Feinberg: BP Gulf Claims Fund ‘Working As Intended’ April 21, 2011 By Moira Herbst On the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, BP Plc is facing challenges to its effort to contain another...
Gulf Coast Officials Enjoy Spending Spree at BP’s Expense April 12, 2011 By Melinda Deslatte, Michael Kunzelman and Mike Schneider In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP...