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Corrosion Threatens BP Pipelines in Alaska; Could Lead to More Spills

(Nov. 3) -- Though BP's gulf oil spill, now capped, is fading from the headlines, the company could soon be responsible for another all-too-familiar environmental catastrophe: ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, has gotten its hands on an internal maintenance report on BP's Alaska pipeline system, and...

4 Most Glaring Errors Cited by Obama's Oil Spill Panel

(Oct. 7) -- Scientists describe the official response to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster as a giant science experiment carried out in real time since it was the first in U.S. history involving a deep-water oil rig. Yet the preliminary assessment released this week by the Oil Spill Commission, which was appointed by...

BP Says Payouts Endangered if Barred From Drilling in Gulf

(Sept. 3) -- BP (BP) warned that any legislation that stops it from drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico could prevent the oil giant from paying out compensation related to this year's oil spill. Congress is currently considering legislation that would bar any company from receiving offshore drilling permits if more...

BP Executive Pleads Fifth at Oil Spill Hearing

(Aug. 24) -- Constitutional right though it may be, the pesky Fifth Amendment -- specifically the clause against self-incrimination -- is once again slowing down the process of pinpointing exactly what caused the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig. Fortunately, the Web is coming to the...

Reports Sharply Contradict Claims About Vanished Oil

(Aug. 17) -- Two new reports from different groups of academic scientists are providing a counterweight to the government's rosy assertions that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis is drawing to a close. One says that as much as 79 percent of the oil is still loose in the gulf; the other expresses the fear that oil on the...

Background on bp oil

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and continues to seep.

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