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• BP oil spill settlement submitted for approval

  April 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS — BP and a team of plaintiffs’ attorneys today presented a federal judge with the formal terms of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars …

• Gulf spill blamed on poor management decisions

  September 14, 2011 in Nation/World A key federal report puts ultimate responsibility on BP for the catastrophic failures leading to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers, … 8

• BP wants to end future Gulf oil spill payouts

  July 8, 2011 BP is arguing that victims of last year’s Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered … 9

• Panel: Dollars did not trump safety in Gulf spill

  November 8, 2010 in Nation/World The presidential commission investigating the BP Gulf oil spill challenged claims in Congress that the oil company and others sacrificed safety to cuts cost. In preliminary findings issued today, the … 7

• State candidates took BP campaign contributions

  October 17, 2010 in City on Page B10 Several area state legislators accepted campaign contributions from a BP employees’ political action committee after this year’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – including two Democrats in … 1

• Cement starts flowing to plug BP well for good

  September 17, 2010 in Nation/World Crews started pumping cement today deep under the seafloor to permanently plug BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

• BP report blames itself, others for oil spill

  September 8, 2010 in Nation/World Oil giant BP PLC laid much of the blame for the rig explosion and the massive Gulf of Mexico spill on itself, other companies’ workers and a complex series of …

• Feds to grill BP executives in fourth proceeding

  August 22, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 LOS ANGELES – Federal investigators on Monday are expected to confront executives and managers of BP and rig owner Transocean about catastrophic failures in well design and disabled safety systems …

• Gulf seafood has image problem

  August 8, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 NEW ORLEANS – The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude oil began gushing from the sea floor. But …

• BP forces cement into Gulf oil well

  August 6, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 LOS ANGELES – It took BP a mere five hours to pump a stream of cement down the throat of its troublesome well Thursday, finishing another major step in its …

• Officials respond to well fix with cautious optimism

  August 5, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 VENICE, La. – BP’s long and halting effort to bring an end to the Gulf of Mexico disaster crossed a key threshold Wednesday when the company packed its ruptured well …

• Crush of mud plugs BP’s well in the Gulf

  August 4, 2010 in Nation/World In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed …

• Pressure drops as static kill fills well

  August 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – BP embarked Tuesday on an operation that could seal the biggest offshore oil leak in U.S. history once and for all, forcing mud down …

• 4.9 million barrels spilled in the Gulf

  August 3, 2010 in City on Page A3 LOS ANGELES – BP’s outlaw well released more than 200 million gallons of oil before it was capped, government officials said Monday, as the company prepared to stuff the well …

• Engineers prepare next oil spill remedy

  August 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held …

• Crews prepare relief well for oil gusher

  July 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – Crews took another step toward readying the relief well expected to finally kill the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, removing the plug they had popped in before …

• BP positions for fresh start

  July 28, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – Battered BP began reinventing itself in the shadow of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Tuesday, naming its first American CEO as it reported a record $17 …

• BP’s Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works

  July 26, 2010 in Nation/World Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP’s flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job … 6

• BP scuttling embattled CEO

  July 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 ATLANTA – After a bruising week of gulf oil-spill hearings and more scrutiny to come, BP moved Sunday to accelerate the departure of Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, who has …

• Ships ordered out of spill site

  July 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Key ships stationed over BP’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico were ordered to evacuate Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie, and engineers …

• Storm crimps plans for relief well work

  July 22, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW ORLEANS – A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly …

• BP knew of problems at well

  July 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 KENNER, La. – BP officials knew about a problem on a critical well safety device at least three months before the catastrophic April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, …

• Kempthorne: No one anticipated large oil spill

    July 20, 2010 in Nation/World Two former Interior secretaries told Congress today they did not anticipate an accident as large as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Oil cap kept shut despite seep near ruptured well

  July 19, 2010 in Nation/World The federal government today allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its busted Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite a seep in the sea floor … 4

• BP chokes off the oil leak; now begins the wait

  July 15, 2010 in Nation/World BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico today — 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded — then began … 1

• BP places containment cap on well

  July 13, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 BP lowered a new, tight-fitting containment cap over its renegade well in the Gulf of Mexico late Monday, a move that may give the company the ability to shut off …

• BP close to installing new cap

  July 12, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 ATLANTA – BP engineers moved a few steps closer Sunday to installing a snug-fitting cap on the broken Gulf of Mexico well that may finally allow the collection of all …

• Amy Goodman: Time for an information spill

  July 9, 2010 in Opinion on Page A15 “Deep Spill 2” sounds like a sequel to a Hollywood thriller. Unfortunately, it is more of a reality show. “Deep Spill 2” is the name of an ambitious series of …

• Waves burying oil deep in sand

  July 8, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 GULF SHORES, Ala. – There’s a dirty secret buried under Gulf of Mexico beaches after cleanup workers scrape away the oil washing ashore. Walk to a seemingly pristine patch of …

• Tar balls, sheen in Pontchartrain

  July 7, 2010 in City on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans, which managed to escape oil from the BP spill for more than two months, can’t hide any longer. For the first time since the accident, …

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