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BP Sues Rig Owner for $40B; Blames It for Disaster

NEW ORLEANS -- BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster. The British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans that it is suing rig owner...

Volunteers Descend on Gulf to Restore Oyster Beds

MOBILE, Ala. -- Volunteers from across the country are rebuilding oyster reefs along the Gulf of Mexico's delicate shoreline, hoping to revive oyster beds under assault for decades from overharvesting, coastal development, pollution, and most recently the BP oil spill. The waters harbor much of the world's last remaining...

Six Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Oil Spill

WASHINGTON -- Of the tens of thousands of people who worked to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, many had competing loyalties and agendas. Unified, they were not. Complicating matters, local, state and federal officials felt enormous pressure to avoid being seen as in cahoots with BP. Because the federal government's...

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: Series of Calamities Caused Gulf Oil Spill

(Sept. 8) -- BP has concluded that a "sequence of failures" by "multiple companies and work teams" led to the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and triggered the world's largest accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. "No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy," the oil giant said...

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06/02/12 Union criticizes Honeywell after latest leak Source: The Southern Illinoisan - Carbondale IL A gas leak Wednesday at Honeywell Specialty Materials in Metropolis, the second within a month, was the result of plant management's insistence on using inexperienced, salaried employees for jobs that should be done by laborers, the local union president says.
06/02/12 Firm fined for gas explosion Source: Batley & Birstall News - West Yorkshire - UK A DEMOLITION firm has been fined Â£10,000 for safety failings after a gas pipe ignited in a worker's face.
06/02/12 Verso's future still unknown, damage assessment could... Source: St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud MN It could be a week or longer before Verso officials can complete an assessment of the damage done to its Sartell paper mill from a Memorial Day explosion and fire that killed one employee and injured four others.
06/01/12 âChernobyl Diaries' is more stupid than scary Source: Ahwatukee Foothills News - Phoenix AZ 'Chernobyl Diaries" is like a PSA for what not to do if you're a character in a horror picture.
06/01/12 Explosion at Pascagoula plant; 1 dead, 2 injured Source: SFGate.com - San Francisco CA A worker at the Mississippi Phosphates fertilizer facility in Pascagoula has been killed in an explosion that left two other workers injured.