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Oil spill panel: BP missed systemic hazards, lax on overall safety

Associated Press — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:59:19 +0000

WASHINGTON — BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and wasn’t as strict on overall safety when drilling rigs involved other companies that they hired, a government safety panel concludes. Eleven workers were killed [...]

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Agencies re-stock river as part of post-spill recovery efforts

MBJ Staff — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:32 +0000

PEARL RIVER COUNTY — Approximately 14,000 pounds of harvestable-sized blue catfish will be released into the Pearl River near Picayune (Walkiah Bluff) as part of a continued recovery effort by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The catfish, donated by a Mississippi catfish producer, [...]

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