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BP coughs up $20 billion, steelworkers slam "corporate greed"
June 16, 2010BP agreed today to set up a $20 billion escrow fund to pay damage claims resulting from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Read moreBP: “The verdict is guilty!”
June 16, 2010BALTIMORE — “Criminal negligence. The verdict is guilty!” That was the message proclaimed by pickets walking near a local BP gas station here June 12 as British Petroleum’s gusher continued to spew 80,000 barrels of crude oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico. There is no end in sight of this nightmare.
Read moreCongress Hotel strikers join forces for immigration reform
June 15, 2010The Congress Hotel workers enter their seventh year on strike -- the longest in American history.
Read morePressure mounts on BP to pay claims and curb gusher
June 14, 2010President Obama is back in the Gulf of Mexico for a two-day tour followed by a national prime-time TV address Tuesday, June 15, on the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history.
Read moreHelen Thomas was wrong, but Fox and co. are dead wrong
June 11, 2010The 89-year-old pioneer woman journalist Helen Thomas, among the first in the White House press corps to challenge President Bush on war, torture and Middle East policy, retired last week, a sad ending to her legendary career.
Read moreOfficial admits oil gusher exceeds all prior estimates
June 10, 2010A second “containment” vessel will increase the amount of oil being captured to as much as 28,000 barrels of oil per day.
Read moreProtests force suspension of Hyatt's first shareholders meeting
June 09, 2010Just six months after becoming a publicly traded company protests forced Hyatt Hotels to suspend its first shareholders meeting here.
Read moreOil plumes spreading under Gulf “like ash from a volcano”
June 08, 2010Government officials confirmed today that oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface is traveling in clouds through large areas of the subsea Gulf of Mexico. At a news briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the subsea oil was found 42 miles northeast of the well site and also 142 miles to the southeast.
Read moreAs spill kills jobs BP nickels and dimes victims
June 07, 2010As oil continues gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and the resulting environmental and economic catastrophes worsen, BP is dragging its feet on the damage claims.
Read moreWorries mount on oil spill health effects
June 04, 2010As oil washes up on Florida beaches, scores of cleanup workers are falling ill.
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