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UC expert questions BP management's role in gulf oil spill
An expert witness for those suing BP over the nation’s worst environmental disaster criticized the company’s investigation of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the civil trial entered its second day. UC Berkeley engineering professor...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Gulf of Mexico, Government, National Government, Science and Technology
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Trial set to open for Gulf oil spill litigation
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly three years after a deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by...
Tags: Criminals, Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, BP Plc, Environmental Pollution
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Soledad O'Brien, CNN enter new deal that will end her morning show role
CNN and Soledad O'Brien Thursday announced a new deal that will take her out of the morning weekday anchor chair and make her an independent producer of documentaries for the channel. The move by new CNN chief Jeff Zucker is a smooth one that keeps a...
Tags: New Products, Television, Media Industry, Satellite and Cable Service, The New York Times
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Drilling company enters guilty plea in Gulf oil spill
Transocean Deepwater Inc., an oil drilling company, formally pleaded guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge and will pay $400 million in criminal penalties, the latest action in the 2010 Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New...
Tags: Criminals, Michael Bloomberg, Misdemeanors, Explosions, U.S. Department of Justice
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BP says gulf states are seeking more than $34 billion in claims
Oil giant BP said it is confronting more than $34 billion in damage claims related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the nation's biggest offshore oil spill. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida presented their claims...Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Federal Aviation Administration, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Mexico
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New Orleans Pelicans? This bird won't hunt
Just when we all were getting over the irony of a team named the “Saints” getting stung in that tawdry NFL bounty scandal, the transplanted New Orleans Hornets of the NBA have announced they will change their nickname to the “Pelicans.&...Tags: National Football League, National Basketball Association
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Assistant Atty. Gen. Lanny Breuer to exit amid criticism, praise
WASHINGTON — Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Lanny A. Breuer, who made his mark ramping up the prosecution of white-collar crime and overseeing the government’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill investigation, announced he is soon leaving his post as one...
Tags: Criminals, Operation Fast and Furious, Organized Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric Holder
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Judge OKs $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement for BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties for the company's role in the 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in...
Tags: Criminals, U.S. Congress, Government, National Government, Georgetown
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BP pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2010 gulf oil spill
A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation’s worst environmental...
Tags: Criminals, Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric Holder
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Oil spills after two barges strike Mississippi River bridge
Oil spilled into the Mississippi River after two oil barges hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Miss., early Sunday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. The barges, laden with crude oil, were being pulled by the tow boat Nature's Way Endeavor when they...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Water Pollution, BP Plc, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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'Blues' for deep blue sea
As a young boy, when Wyland saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, he felt something shift within him. Moments later, two gray whales peeked out from the surface of the water. A lifelong connection was formed. "I saw two gray whales spouting...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Environmental Pollution, BP Plc, Arts and Culture
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar leaving Obama administration
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he plans to step down and return to Colorado, leaving another opening in President Obama’s Cabinet. “Colorado is and will always be my home. I look forward to...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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