10 Species 10 Years Later
<p>This report, 10 Species, 10 Years Later, summarizes the best information available about the wildlife featured. We selected these species for many reasons: They represent different types of affected
British Petroleum (BP)
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Shell Tries to Calm Fears on Drilling in Alaska
Shell Oil will present an ambitious proposal to the federal government this week, seeking permission to drill up to 10 exploratory oil wells beneath Alaska
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How harmful was the BP spill, really?
In April 2010, an explosion aboard the BP drill rig Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill ever in American waters. Initially, government officials and BP officers denied the situation was serious. As details of the spill volume, and of damage to Gulf of Mexico fisheries, became known, panic set in.
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A year after BP oil spill, scars still remain on US coast
New Orleans: It was the catastrophe that seemed to crush a way of life, an oil rig exploding in the darkness and plunging the Gulf Coast and its people into months of chaos. One year after America
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How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations
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India buy signals BPs focus on growing economies
<p>Robert Dudley’s second $7-billion deal this year signals a shift for BP Plc toward the world’s fastest-growing economies as exploration drilling remains closed in the US after the Macondo oil spill. Dudley, the first American chief executive officer of the London-based company, agreed on Tuesday to pay Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to help explore deepwater fields in India.
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BP protests spill settlement
IN the eight months since Kenneth R Feinberg took over the $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, he has been attacked by many of those filing claims and by coastal state politicians who argue that the process is opaque, arbitrary and slow.
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Gulf to recover from BP spill by 12
THE Gulf of Mexico should recover from the massive BP oil spill by the end of 2012, the administrator of the $20-billion victims compensation fund said. By that time, most of the harmful effect of the worst offshore oil spill in US history will have dissipated and the economy should have picked up, said Kenneth Feinberg, independent administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF).
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UK ill-equipped to handle disaster, says committee
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year raises concern that Britain may not be prepared to deal with a disaster in Scottish waters, UK lawmakers said. Parliament
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Massive oil spill could happen again, says White House panel
Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in the US history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and the government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded on Wednesday. The commission findings
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US sues BP, 9 others for oil spill
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