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Extent Of BP’s Liability For Gulf Spill Still Murky
A group of Senate Democrats is seeking to raise the million liability limit on economic damages under the Oil Pollution Act to billion, but some legal experts say the very issue of a cap may be moot.
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Video: BP’s PR Offensive
In a new TV commercial, BP CEO Tony Hayward is offering atonement to those affected by the oil spill. As Tony Guida reports, his apology isn’t winning hearts and minds on the Gulf coast.
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BP Dead Pelicans Heading Back

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Blog – BP’s Leaky Spill Cap: Better Than It Looks?
It’s impossible to say how much oil is still escaping from the stricken wellhead.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Recovers Birds

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-06 23:10 Dozens in Florida protest BP’s Gulf oil spill
By Michael Peltier
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Saw stuck in riser pipe in BP’s latest attempt to contain oil spill
BP videoIn image made from video released by British Petroleum (BP PLC), robot submarines use a circular saw-like device to cut a pipe at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig Tuesday.BP temporarily suspended its effort to contain oil leaking into…
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New Deepwater Horizon images:

We Are Worth More Than BP’s Bottom Line

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Aerial view of ongoing cleanup efforts

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Video created May 25, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, April 2010. Animals from Louisiana and Mississippi, May 2010. Credit to ABC, CBS, CNN, Al Jazeera, and independent photographers & filmmakers. Music: Yakety Sax Tom Lehrer – “Pollution”

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES NEW DRILLING REGULATIONS; CHIEF REGULATOR RESIGNS Today President Obama is announcing new drilling regulations hours after Elizabeth Birnbaum resigned under pressure as head of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the lead agency overseeing US oil and gas drilling. The MMS has come under fire for lax inspections of the Deepwater Horizon rig prior to its April 20 explosion and an Inspector General’s report that identified inappropriate behavior and industry relationships by agency officials.

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Beach clean up on Grand Isle Beach 1

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Will BP’s Latest Plan Make Oil Spill Worse?
Cutting off Broken Riser Pipe and Using a New Pipe to Siphon Oil Could Allow 20 Percent More Oil to Gush into the Gulf
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BP’s top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak
BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press Writer BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but said it’s readying yet another approach to fight the spill after a series of failures.
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Video: BP’s Next Containment Plan
Since their Top Kill mission has failed, British Petroleum will enact yet another attempt to halt the greatest oil spill in U.S. history. But, as Don Teague reports, patience in La. has grown thin.
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