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- ‘Missing’ oil from BP disaster located at the bottom of the ocean Fri, 6 Feb 15, 1:30amWhen the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burst in 2010, about 200 million gallons of crude oil was released into the fragile ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico...
- BP fine for Gulf of Mexico oil spill capped at $13.7 billion Tue, 20 Jan 15, 2:00amA federal judge determined this week that BP will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion for its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This penalty is several billion dollars less than environmental activists were hoping for, since...
- BP fine for Gulf of Mexico oil spill will not exceed $13.7 billion Tue, 20 Jan 15, 2:00amA federal judge determined this week that BP will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion for its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This penalty is several billion dollars less than environmental activists were hoping for, since...
- BP loses Supreme Court appeal to reduce Gulf Spill payments Tue, 9 Dec 14, 10:00pmBP has been busy scrambling to limit the amount of money it must pay out as a result of the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but yesterday the gas and oil giant had a serious set back...
- BP Faces up to $18 Billion in Fines for Gross Negligence Over Deepwater Horizon Sat, 6 Sep 14, 2:10amBP was yesterday found guilty of being "grossly negligent" and "reckless" in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout. The blowout killed 11 workers and caused the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill that was the worst offshore...
- EPA Unbans BP in Time for New Gulf Oil and Gas Contracts Sat, 15 Mar 14, 2:07amThe US Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has ended its government contract ban against British Petroleum (BP) after the company agreed to new safety standards...
- Dolphins Affected by the 2010 BP Oil Spill are Sicker than We Thought Fri, 20 Dec 13, 3:09amA new study shows that the tragic 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has left dolphins in Barataria Bay much more sickly than originally thought. After studying 32 dolphins that live in the Louisiana waters, scientists...
- BP Reveals It Knew About Explosion Risk at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Before It Happened Thu, 28 Feb 13, 8:00amFormer BP America president Lamar McKay recently revealed in court that the company knew about the risk of explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig well before it took place...
- BP to Challenge Government’s “Excessive” Deepwater Horizon Spill Penalties in Court Thu, 21 Feb 13, 2:03amAlthough BP has plead guilty to manslaughter and agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion in criminal penalties for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the British oil giant BP is now preparing to defend itself in court...
- Dispersants Used in Deepwater Horizon Clean Up Could be 52 Times More Toxic Than Oil Tue, 4 Dec 12, 3:11amIn efforts to mitigate the devastating underwater petroleum leak caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010, BP used controversial oil-dispersing chemicals that have long been suspected to do more harm...
- MIT Develops a Way to Magnetically Separate Oil From Water Thu, 13 Sep 12, 5:13amIn the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill we explored several innovative methods to separate oil from water. Now a team from MIT has developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used...
- Exxon Valdez Tanker To Be Broken Up And Recycled As Scrap in India Fri, 3 Aug 12, 1:50amOil Tanker Photo from Shutterstock The Exxon Valdez, the tanker that was responsible for the world’s worst oil spill (until the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010), is to be broken up in...
- Carbon And Boron Nanosponge Cubes Absorb Oil From Water Sat, 26 May 12, 12:20amAfter the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, we’ve been on the look out for new technologies that could help clean up similar disasters. With that in mind, we are intrigued by this news from Rice University and Penn State University,...
- BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill Trial Delayed One Week Tue, 28 Feb 12, 6:40amThe trial that will decide BP’s culpability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was set to begin in the US District Court in New Orleans today, but has been postponed to allow the oil company to continue to discuss settlements...
- BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Evidence of Wrongdoing in Gulf Oil Spill Wed, 7 Dec 11, 2:58amIt is coming to fists again over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This time, however, it isn’t the people of the gulf against big oil, it is the oil companies against each other. BP is accusing...