by Associated Press Published: November 8,2012
Tags: accident, bench, class action, court, death, decision, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fairness, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, hospitality, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, ruling, seafood, tourism, tourist, trial, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a fairness hearing for a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims spawned by BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During today’s hearing, the London-based oil giant and a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys will urge U.S. District [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 1,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, disaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fataslity, fuel, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, seafood, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — The architects of a proposed class-action settlement of claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are confident it won’t be derailed by thousands of businesses and individuals opting out of the deal. Thursday is the deadline for claimants to postmark written requests to opt out of the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2012
Tags: accident, bench, contamination, court, death, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, explosion, fatal, fatality, gasoline, justice, law, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, processor, seafood, shrimp, trade association, trial
GULF OF MEXICO — With looming legal deadlines related to the 2010 BP oil spill, dozens of shrimp processors along the Gulf Coast face a difficult dilemma, with either decision having the potential to jeopardize the future of their businesses and the region’s seafood industry, according to a leading trade association. All pending claims for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 26,2012
Tags: accident, athletics, celebration, energy, explosion, fuel, gasoline, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, natural gas, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, parade, petroleum, postpone, sports, trial
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge — citing the distractions of Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl — has postponed the trial designed to identify causes of the BP well blowout that spawned the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico. The trial had been scheduled to start Jan. 14, but U.S. District Court Judge Carl [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 26,2012
Tags: complex, death, explode, explosion, facility, fatality, hurt, injury, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, workplace safety
REDWOOD — A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by a man who was injured in a deadly explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi in 2008. Jeb D. Slade settled his lawsuit after a hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Natchez. The terms of the deal were not [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 25,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, dusaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drillinmg, Oil, oil sheen, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — BP says it has capped and plugged an abandoned piece of equipment that is believed to be the source of a sheen spotted near the site of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London-based oil giant said today that it successfully placed a 750-pound cap over an [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, disaster recovery, disaster response, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — A sheen on the Gulf of Mexico likely came from oil seeping out of a piece of discarded equipment that failed to contain BP PLC’s massive 2010 oil spill, the company and the Coast Guard said. A statement from BP said a three-day inspection confirmed that its Macondo well, which blew [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 12,2012
Tags: accident, blowout, death, drill, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, gasoline, hospitaslity, natural gas, offshore drilling, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, sheen energy, spill, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wrechage
GULF OF MEXICO — Federal scientists and BP say oil appears to have leaked last month from the drilling wreckage lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out in 2010, causing the nation’s worst offshore spill. A probe started after a sheen was discovered Sept. 16 in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 12,2012
Tags: accident, disaster, energy, environment, explosion, military, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, pollution, sheen, wildlife
GULF OF MEXICO — The Coast Guard says an oil sheen near the site of the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico matches oil from the 2010 disaster. The Coast Guard says its tests established the oil came from the BP well. It could be left over from the wreckage of the Deepwater [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 8,2012
Tags: accident, death, disaster, disaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, executive, explosion, fatality, federal government, legislative, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil spill, oilrig, petroleum, pollution, President, seafood, seafood industry, Senate, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are encouraging the Obama administration to work toward a Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement agreement that meets both the ecological and economic recovery needs in Gulf Coast states affected by the 2010 disaster. Cochran and Wicker are among eight senators who have signed a [...] [...]
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