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Governor unveils Coast projects funded by BP money

Associated Press — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:52:49 +0000

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — BP PLC is paying $69 million for interactive exhibits at a Hancock County science center, a concrete pathway on the beach at Pascagoula, up to six miles of shoreline and improvements at a park as part of Mississippi Gulf Coast restoration from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gov. Phil Bryant said. [...]

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State becomes third to sue BP over 2010 oil spill

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:58:11 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Attorney General Jim Hood announced the state had filed lawsuits in federal and state court. The move comes one day before the three-year statute of limitations expires for claims related to the April 20, 2010, [...]

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BP to call first witness in oil spill case; first phase should end this month

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:02:11 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — BP is scheduled to call its first witness today at a trial designed to determine causes of its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and assign fault to the companies involved in the deadly disaster. Halliburton, BP PLC’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project, rested its case [...]

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Judge rejects BP’s request to block oil spill payouts

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:47:18 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has rejected BP’s request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing today, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already had upheld court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s [...]

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La. oil company appeals judge’s post-explosion ruling

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:55:05 +0000

FORREST COUNTY — A Louisiana-based oil company has appealed a judge’s ruling that upheld a new sign and fencing ordinance put in place by Forrest County after fatal 2009 oil tank explosion. The appeal by Delphi Oil Inc. of Baton Rouge, La., is among dozens the Mississippi Supreme Court will consider during its March-April term. [...]

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BP exec: Management, cost-cutting not explored in oil spill probe

Associated Press — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:39:37 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn’t explore whether decisions by upper-level management or cost cuts had a role in causing the disaster because investigators didn’t have access to its partners’ employees and records, a BP executive testified yesterday at a trial designed to [...]

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First BP executive testifying at oil spill trial

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:27:27 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — The first BP executive to testify at a federal trial over the nation’s worst oil spill was to take the stand for a second day today before a judge tasked with deciding whether the London-based oil giant and other companies acted with gross negligence for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of [...]

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Expert: BP’s cost-cutting led to 2010 Gulf oil spill

Associated Press — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:17:58 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — An expert witness for people and businesses who sued BP over the Gulf oil spill says he found ample evidence that the company’s cost-cutting culture led to the disaster. University of California-Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea testified today at a civil trial. He says BP PLC didn’t implement a safety management program [...]

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BP will not be penalized for 34M gallons of oil spilled in Gulf

Associated Press — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:53:21 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — BP and the federal government have agreed that 34 million gallons of oil captured during the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico can’t count toward civil penalties the oil giant faces. The agreement is contained in a court filing yesterday. It came in response to BP’s argument that workers [...]

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BP fails to reach settlement in advance of civil trial

Associated Press — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:04:40 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — BP acknowledged today it had failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week’s civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon accident and is ready to defend itself vigorously against allegations of gross negligence in the U.S.’s biggest environmental disaster. Rupert Bondy, the group’s general counsel, said in a statement that [...]

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