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Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry
The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Environmental Pollution, Consumer Goods Industries, Mining, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses
The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Enbridge Incorporated, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Justice System, Environmental Issues
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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: Purim, Environmental Pollution, Fines, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), The Wall Street Journal
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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: Michael Bloomberg, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Pollution, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Justice System
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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: Murder, Environmental Pollution, Fines, Crime, Law and Justice, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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Cleanup continues after Mississippi River barge oil spill
At least 21 vessels were backed up along the Mississippi River as authorities worked on Monday to clean up an oil spill from a barge that hit a railroad bridge near Vicksburg, Miss. Officials have placed more than 2,500 feet of boom to contain the...
Tags: Railway Transportation
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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: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Environmental Pollution, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Issues, Trials
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No apparent leak after empty oil tanker hits Bay Bridge
L.A. NOWOfficials on Monday afternoon were assessing the damage after an oil tanker collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but initial reports indicated that the vessel did not appear to be leaking oil. The 752-foot Overseas Reymar hit the tower just... -
Problems prompt federal review of Arctic drilling operations
After a series of problems plagued the debut of offshore oil drilling in the U.S. Arctic, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday ordered a high-level, expedited review of oil operations in Alaskan waters aimed at achieving “safe and responsible...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Ken Salazar, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Arctic shipping is disaster waiting to happen, safety group warns
Ferrying a load of soybeans from Seattle to China in 2004, the engine of Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and the vessel broke in half on rocks off Unalaska Island in the middle of the Alaskan archipelago. A ferocious Bering Sea storm...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Environmental Issues
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BP shut out of U.S. contracts: Feds cite deadly blast, poor response
BP, which has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the nation's worst offshore oil spill, was suspended from new government contracts on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. In suspending the company, the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Pollution, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Justice System, Environmental Issues
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Greenpeace scales Russian oil platform to protest Arctic drilling
World NowGreenpeace activists scaled a frigid Russian oil platform on Friday to draw attention to the possible dangers of drilling in the Arctic, warning a spill could sully nature reserves long before crews are able to clean it up....
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