Gulf of Mexico
Cover-ups and ‘cost-savings’ ooze from BP records
July 6, 2010Louisiana union leaders, environmentalists and others are saying that the disparity between what BP told government regulators in March and what it has actually been able to do results from a willfully misleading manipulation of numbers...
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Pressure 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.
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Oil plumes spreading under Gulf “like ash from a volcano”
June 8, 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...
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Outrage spurs BP boycott
June 1, 2010Outraged at the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a movement to boycott BP is growing across the country.
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Exxon Valdez survivors and Gulf residents fight the same battle
May 19, 2010They may be four thousand miles apart but the people in this region are joining a battle taken up more than 20 years ago by the residents of Cordova, a small Alaskan fishing village.
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