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Not enough eligible businesses are filing for BP oil spill settlements

Becky Gillette — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:07:15 +0000

Billions of dollars have been set aside by oil giant BP Oil to compensate businesses damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. You don’t have to be in the seafood business or even a business on the Coast to qualify. Businesses throughout the state that show a pattern of less [...]

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Study: Dispersants may have hurt Gulf food chain

Associated Press — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:57:14 +0000

A study on possible effects of the 2010 BP oil spill indicates dispersants may have killed plankton — some of the ocean’s tiniest plants and creatures — and disrupted the food chain in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the nation’s richest seafood grounds. Scientists who read the study said it points toward major future [...]

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Gulf shrimpers battling over turtle rules

Associated Press — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:36:19 +0000

LAFITTE, La. — Efforts to protect endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico have prompted strenuous complaints from the dwindling fleet of shrimpers blamed for drowning them in their nets, who say their own livelihoods are threatened. By next March the federal government wants about 2,435 shrimp boats — most run by mom-and-pop operations [...]

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BP pays $5.4M to settle gender bias claims

Associated Press — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:13:51 +0000

WASHINGTON — Oil giant BP is paying $5.4 million to settle claims that some of its contractors refused to hire women to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the agreement with BP Exploration & Production Inc. covers female workers in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. [...]

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AP photographer describes Gulf oil spill then, now

Associated Press — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:16:54 +0000

ON THE BARATARIA BAY, La. — I had been taking pictures of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for about a month before I made my first visit to Cat Island on May 22, 2010. I will never forget what I saw there. Noisy brown pelicans were flying around and swimming in [...]

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Judge is asked to sign off on the BP oil spill settlement

Associated Press — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:59 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — BP and a team of plaintiffs’ attorneys have presented a federal judge with the details of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars in economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The company and lawyers representing more than 100,000 individuals and businesses [...]

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BP avoids trial, agrees to pay $7.8B Gulf oil spill claims

Ted Carter — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:21:41 +0000

BP will pay an estimated $7.8 billion to settle a lawsuit over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill with attorneys representing thousands of individual plaintiffs and businesses on the eve of a major trial in a New Orleans federal court, the company said Friday night. The Washington Post reported the settlement does not [...]

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Barbour defends proposed offshore drilling regs

Associated Press — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:15:01 +0000

JACKSON — Allowing oil and gas drilling 10 to 12 miles south of Mississippi’s coastline in the Gulf of Mexico is a good idea because it could generate state revenue, Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday. The Mississippi Development Authority on Monday published proposed regulations to lease state waters in the Gulf for the drilling. The [...]

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BP Gulf spill compensation fund to be audited

Associated Press — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:54:03 +0000

WASHINGTON — An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday. In a letter to the fund’s administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, Holder stressed that the goal is to balance the need for [...]

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There’s hope early season heralds better decade

Associated Press — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:17:04 +0000

BILOXI — Derick Ross, his father and his younger brother boarded the 53-foot Mark and Dawn and set out to ply Mississippi waters for shrimp this week, just as Rosses have done since ancestors arrived here from Alabama on a schooner in 1896. By noon, fishing in wind and choppy water around Horn Island, they [...]

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