Oil–Spill Dispersants Come Under New Scrutiny At Senate Hearing Wall Street Journal pointed to agency data and concluded that dispersants are less toxic than the oil released into the gulf. Jacqueline Savitz, a senior campaign director for … Administration Defends Use of Dispersants After Oil SpillThe Washington Independent US scientists question use of dispersants on Gulf oil spillDigitalJournal.com EPA says no evidence yet that dispersants to clean up oil spill are harmful89.3 KPCC Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) –Talk Radio News Service –CNN all 457 news articles »
Transocean Employees Become Focus of BP Oil-Spill Investigators BusinessWeek July 21 (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. employees onboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig when it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico have become the focus of … No Shortage of Books on Oil SpillNew York Times 3 months into Gulf disaster, BP says relief tunnel should reach blown-out well …Newser BP tests continue as officials explore new optionCNN BloggingStocks (blog) –Christian Science Monitor –International Business Times all 17,058 news articles »
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Command structure in oil-spill response getting an overhaul
The moves are designed to give more autonomy to local officials, get decision-makers in the room with state and county responders and help cure the ills of miscommunication, errors of execution and masses of bureaucratic red tape that’s thus far marked the response to the nation’s biggest environmental disaster. Read more on Tallahassee Democrat
Clean-up work starts at oil-spill affected beach
&$ &$A worker cleans the oil washed ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill at the beach of Gulf Shores, southern Alabama, the United States, June 6, 2010. More than half of the oil leaking each day in the Gulf of Mexico is now being captured and the British Petroleum (BP) will restore the gulf to its original state, BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward said Sunday. (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)&$ &$ &$ Read more on People’s Daily
BP Should Suspend Dividend, Tally Oil-Spill Costs, Senators Say
June 3 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc , struggling to control its gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, should suspend its annual dividend until clean-up and liability costs are determined, two U.S. senators said. Read more on Bloomberg
BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes
AP – BP’s stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it Tuesday as the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP engineers, meanwhile, tried to recover from a failed attempt to stop the gusher with an effort that will initially make the leak worse. Read more on Yahoo! Green