Tag: BP
Fish Hatchery and Pensacola Beach Ferry Service make final list
Today the Federal and State natural resources Trustees released the final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Phase III Early Restoration Plan (ERP) for the…
BP shuts down its oil spill claims program
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court saying that the British oil giant had to pay business claims tied to the 2010 BP oil…
Supreme Court turns down BP request to suspend paying claims
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to halt BP’s payments of claims stemming from 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a one-sentence order issued…
BP law firm agrees to keep income from case away from son of Supreme Court Justice Scalia
An attorney friend passed on this 2013 article on possible conflicts when U.S. Supreme Court Justices hear cases involving law firms that have their family…
Scalia may have conflict on hearing BP appeal
Last Thursday, attorney Mike Papantonio said on Ed Schultz’s television program that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito must recuse themselves from hearing…
BP must continue to pay business claims
The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejected yesterday the BP’s request to maintain a temporary halt on payments to businesses that can’t prove…
BP says it will appeal to Supreme Court
Reuters is reporting that BP said today that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court ruling concerning the 2010 Gulf of…
BP loses appeal, must start paying business claims
Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans refused to reconsider its decision that businesses do not have to prove…
Head of BP cleanup operations allegedly used inside knowledge to unload BP stock days after explosion
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged yesterday Keith A. Seilhan, a former 20-year BP employee and a senior responder during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil…
BP and Coast Guard halt last of the shoreline cleanup operations
Sunday, April 20 is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Yesterday, BP sent out a press release that said the U.S. Coast Guard…
Remembering the BP oil spill
CNN national correspondent David Mattingly recently visited Pensacola to talk about his reporting on 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill. He spent more time on the…
BP wins bids for Gulf of Mexico blocks
Less than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency lifted its ban on BP, the British oil giant wins big in the latest auction for…
