Oil giant BP has been hit with a “record” fine from the federal government as liability for 2010′s deadly explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s only one step in a lengthy claims process over spill damage that will likely take many more months to conclude. But breathless coverage over the [...]
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATING TO THE BP GULF OIL SPILL DISASTER ARE BROUGHT AGAINST…A LOW-LEVEL ENGINEER?!? (Pro Publica) The good news? After more than two years, the Justice Department has finally filed the first set of criminal charges in BP’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oli spill, the worst single [...]
WORLD POWERS SCRAMBLE FOR ARCTIC SUPREMACY AS CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSFORMS THE TOP OF THE GLOBE. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Besides the familiar and well documented consequences of man-made climate change — rising seas, melting ice, mass extinctions – a potentially more deadly twist may be becoming more apparent. Several of the world’s foremost military powers, including the United States [...]
Two years ago, the cataclysmic fire and spill at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico captured the nation’s attention, sullied the oil giant’s corporate reputation and brought the dangerous form of oil exploration the Gulf is known for to a halt. Today, the process to return BP and drilling operations in [...]
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