From Center for Public Integrity: Two BP refineries account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years. According to…
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News: NY Times reports on conflicts with testing
Local environmental officials are collecting water, sediment and marine animal tissue samples to create baseline measurements for our environments. All these samples are being sent to a lab in Texas, with ties…
What’s that smell?
New Buzz: The Escambia County Emergency Operation Center (EOC) has received reports of possible petroleum-like odors in the southern part of Escambia County. It is possible that these odors are related to…
Kissing cousins at heart of BP legal battle
I have two talents: upsetting people and connecting the dots better than most. Today’s Daily Beast does both. Please check it out and leave a comment. More comments, more attention the story…
Plaintiffs argue to keep BP lawsuits in New Orleans
The attorneys for the shrimpers, commercial fisherman and others impacted by the BP oil spill have submitted their pleadings to fight the motion by BP to move all cases to its USA…
Where will BP lawsuits be tried?
BP wants all the cases moved to Houston, Tex. Its attorneys are arguing that BP Exploration and Production, Inc. and the other defendants maintain their principal places of business and their key…
BP Oil Spill by the numbers
It looks like BP is trying to be more accurate with its stats. Notice the huge jump from the beginning of the week: By the Numbers to Date: * Personnel were quickly…
Sorry, Jeff, EPA gets tougher on dispersants
Well, we’ve learn how powerful our Congressman Jeff Miller is. Days after he pushed for EPA relax its approval process for BP’s use of the dispersants, the federal agency become stricter. Darn…
Keith Olbermann’s people called (then cancelled)
I will be on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight. The show starts at 7 p.m. I think my segment is #4 —up from the #5 spot two weeks ago. Update, 2:46…
EPA Wants Less Toxic Oil Dispersant
According to the Washington Post, the Environmental Protection Agency has given BP 72 hours to find less toxic chemical dispersants to break up the oil spill in the Gulf. http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/05/epa_demands_less_toxic_dispersant.html
Meek Asks BP For More State Dollars
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Miami) announced today that he has asked British Petroleum to increase its pledge of $25 million to $75 million to help promote Florida’s tourism. Meek, a candidate in…
The Beast Corps: Hiding Behind Hotlines
By The Beast Corps Correspondent Ryne Ziemba… Does BP Save Money By Letting Our Wildlife Die? With the first tar balls washing up on the shores of the Florida Keys and the…
Fighting for Papa Bear
Deepwater horizon tragedy through the eyes of one victim’s family He wasn’t supposed to be on the rig. “It wasn’t “his” rig to begin with,” Becky Manuel, his ex-wife and mother of…
News: BP grilled over dispersants (Sorry, Jeff)
While our Congressman Jeff Miller is fighting EPA to allow BP to spray more dispersants on the BP oil spill. other Congressmen are worried about the damage to the Gulf’s ecosystem. The…
Latest BP Oil Spill stats
From MarketWatch: The volume of oil being collected: 3,000 barrels a day, up from 2,000. 19,000 claims filed, “around 8,000” payments made…. 42 percent, up from less than 8 percent two days…
Fighting for Papa Bear
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico have gotten oil executives, attorneys and government officials seeing huge dollar amounts. Lost in the uproar are the…
BP contractor caught using illegals
News Herald reports: “Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested as many as 11 people Wednesday — all but one of them thought to be illegal aliens — in a sweep at Panama City…
BP is now threatening journalists
It was only a matter of time before BP starting restricting the media’s access to areas impacted by the BP Oil Spill. With heavy oil hitting the shores and marshes of Louisiana,…
BP Lie #73
For weeks, the public has been told that the crude from BP’s Deepwater Horizon well is a light crude that it evaporates easily. “It’s nothing like what BP tired to cleanup in…
Marco Rubio coming to Pensacola
Press release: As one of our great supporters, we just wanted to make sure you knew about Marco’s event near you tomorrow, Thursday, May 20th. He will make several stops in the…