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Final Oil Spill Report: Industry Needs 'Dramatic' Change

WASHINGTON -- The presidential commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill has recommended stricter government regulation of the energy industry and the creation of an independent safety agency within the Interior Department to help protect against another oil disaster, the panel said in its...

US Sues BP, 8 Other Companies in Gulf Oil Spill

WASHINGTON (Dec. 15) -- The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The Obama administration's lawsuit asks that the companies be held liable...

Nigeria Charges Former US VP Cheney Over Bribery

LAGOS, Nigeria (Dec. 7) -- Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said. The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid...

Nigeria to Interpol: Arrest Dick Cheney!

(Dec. 2) -- Julian Assange may be getting some unlikely company. If Nigeria has its way, former Vice President Dick Cheney will be next on Interpol's international "wanted" alert, for bribery charges related to his time as the CEO of Halliburton. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says it plans to file charges against...

Halliburton Defends Its Cement Job on BP's Well

(Oct. 29) -- Halliburton Co. conceded today it did not test the stability of the final cement mixture used to seal BP's Macondo well, but it disputed an assertion by the presidential commission that the cement gave way and set off a sequence of events that caused the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of...