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The BP oil disaster holds a valuable lesson for investors. June 22, 2010 — -- Investors, take notice. The BP oil spill has taught us once again that no stock is immune from potential disaster. No ...
NEW YORK -- BP's multibillion-dollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial damages it faces. It also may help the ...
Beaches are bare as locals line up for grocery vouchers. June 21, 2010— -- Every aspect of life in the Gulf of Mexico has changed since the BP oil spill began 63 days ago. Beaches from Louisiana ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil ...
Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are ...
THIS month 15 years ago, the US government declared the Deepwater Horizon oil well sealed, ending a catastrophic leak that spilled 4.9 million barrels (779 million litres, or 311 Olympic-sized pools’ ...
All the oil has been cleaned up or has evaporated from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—well, nearly all of it—while the spill itself seems to have receded into memory, something that transfixed us ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of litigation ...
Today a Louisiana judge accepted the guilty plea of oil giant British Petroleum in connection with the April 2010 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform that killed 11 workers, forcing BP to pay ...
Close readers of Louisiana-based fiction might have been wondering about the absence of novels centered on 2010’s BP oil spill. Hollywood released a ruggedly true-to-life, not to mention star-studded, ...