Press Release: The University of West Florida commemorates Earth Day and the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with three special events. The events, sponsored by the Department of Environmental…
Category: BP Disaster
Viewpoint: BP Making it Right? Yeah, Right.
From Chasidy Hobbs, Emerald Coastkeeper: April 20, 2011 marks one-year since the start of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Most members of the media will be marking the…
Blow-by-blow: BP stockholders meeting
The Telegraph is live coverage of the stockholders meeting of BP. Finally they are getting their say and the chairman is dealing with it: “Mr chairman where were you?,” one asks. “I…
BP spillionaires
ProPublica’s Kim Barker investigates how some people affected by the BP oil spill soaked up money and became “spillionaires” by charging BP outrageous rates for cleanup work or getting large sums of…
Scott reluctant to go after BP
St. Pete Times: Gov. Rick Scott’s reluctance to make a legal claim against BP irks a cast of Floridians, including Tampa attorney Steve Yerrid, who served as the state’s special counsel on…
BP admits to losing 13,000 claimants’ info
BP has admitted to losing a laptop that contained the details of thousands of people who had made claims following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident. The personal details included names, addresses,…
Manslaughter charges considered for BP managers
The Guardian is reporting that BP executives, including ex-chief executive Tony Hayward, may be charged by US authorities over the lost of lives caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Read more.
Feinberg gets a raise
The effort of speeding up the claims process and getting the checks out apparently demands that the head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility get a raise.Ken Feinberg’s Washington, D.C., law firm…
Thank you, BP (photos)
One of our freelancers sent in this report: This past Saturday all the cobia boats were reporting to me seeing weathered oil on the surface just 100 feet off Pensacola Beach. They…
Tar balls still on our beaches
Sunday’s article on BP cutting back on its clean-up work crews on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key upset locals. I was sent these photos of tar balls and dead birds. The last…
Feinberg attorneys tout GCCF transparency
You may read about this tomorrow in the daily newspaper, but the Mobile Press Register has it today. Lawyers for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility have filed a brief with U.S. District…
Valentino: Expect Cairo-like uprising against BP
Commissioner Gene Valentino is upset about how BP is dealing with clean-up of our waterways and beaches. According to the commissioner, BP/Unified Command has reduced the number of clean-up workers on Pensacola…