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EPA bars BP from new US contracts, land leases
A new federal report released on Wednesday puts most of the blame on BP for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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BP to pay $4.5B in Gulf oil spill settlement
BP says it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement over the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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BP oil spill case sees first criminal charges
The first criminal charges in the BP oil spill and Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been filed.
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BP begins to put spill behind w/ settlement
BP has now settled lawsuits filed by more than 100,000 victims over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Feds: BP engineers lied about Gulf drilling
A new federal report released on Wednesday puts most of the blame on BP for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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Report puts most blame on BP for Gulf spill
A new federal report released on Wednesday puts most of the blame on BP for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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New oil sheen spotted in Gulf of Mexico
A new oil sheen has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, but there's no immediate indication it's the result of a new spill.
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Costner hopes technology will prevent spills
Kevin Costner is teaming up with a Louisiana barge builder, hoping to help prevent another oil disaster.
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US marks one year since Gulf oil disaster
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that triggered a massive oil spill.
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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, says a top marine scientist's latest report.
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Just 1 payment made of 91K Gulf spill claims
BP's compensation fund for Gulf spill victims has issued a payment to just one of the thousands awaiting checks.
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Cleanup of oil-tainted Gulf Coast nears end
The Coast Guard says 928 miles of Gulf Coast beaches were tainted with oil and fewer than 30 miles are left to clean.
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Report: Scientist helped keep cap on BP well
A new report shows that a scientist may have saved the Gulf of Mexico from a few more weeks of oil gushing from the BP well.
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Experts: BP ignored warning signs on well
Experts said BP missed and ignored warning signs before the massive oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Report: Offshore drilling review misleading
A federal report claims the Obama administration edited a safety report on off-shore oil drilling in a misleading way.
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BP well finally killed at bottom of Gulf
BP's blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has finally been killed once and for all.
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1 more pressure test needed on BP oil well
One more pressure test on a cement plug stands in the way of declaring BP's blown-out Gulf well permanently dead.
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Blown-out Gulf well to be sealed by Sunday
BP's blown-out well is expected to be permanently shut and declared dead by Sunday, said Incident Commander Thad Allen.
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Oil well blowout preventer arrives at NASA
A device that failed to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill arrived at a NASA facility in Louisiana for analysis.
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BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
An internal report says that BP blames itself, other companies' workers and a series of failures for the Gulf oil spill.
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Video: Failed blowout preventer headed for analysis
A key piece of evidence in the Gulf oil spill is headed to a NASA facility in Louisiana where it will be analyzed.
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Crews prepare to raise blowout preventer
A vessel latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation Friday morning.
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Photos: Oil platform explodes in the Gulf
An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf in five months.
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Video: Robots set cap on leaking BP Gulf well
Underwater robots set a cap onto the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, offering hope of containing the gusher.
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Work on new cap for Gulf oil leak moves ahead
Work on the new cap on the gushing oil leak in the Gulf is on track and has even outpaced expectations of officials.
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Video: Work on new cap for Gulf oil leak moves ahead
Work on the new cap on the oil leak in the Gulf is on track and has even outpaced officials' expectations.
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Cap on gushing well removed, oil flows freely
Officials said the containment cap over the Gulf oil leak has been removed, making way for an improved, tighter lid.
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Video: Robots start work to remove cap from oil leak
Robots began working on replacing a faulty cap over the gushing oil well on the floor of the Gulf Saturday.
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New cap could contain Gulf leak by Monday
A new containment cap and an additional oil collecting ship could contain the Gulf spill by Monday, officials say.
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Relief well timing depends on oil's spread
A relief well into the Gulf of Mexico's floor to end the leak could be done ahead of schedule only in ideal conditions.
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BP costs for oil spill response pass $3B
BP's costs for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico passed $3 billion, as choppy seas hampered the cleanup efforts.
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Rough weather curtails some Gulf cleanup work
Rough weather is slowing down oil spill cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico even after the passing of Hurricane Alex.
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Giant oil skimming ship being tested in Gulf
Gulf of Mexico cleanup crews are testing a new giant oil skimmer, purported to be the largest oil skimmer in the world.
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Helpers ready but left out of spill cleanup
The Obama administration and BP are facing increasing complaints that they're ignoring available oil cleanup help.
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BP oil spill now Gulf of Mexico's largest
BP's massive oil spill became the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.
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World's largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf
The government implemented a huge new piece of equipment Wednesday: the world's largest oil-skimming vessel.
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Rough seas halt skimming operations off Gulf
Oil-skimming ships in the Gulf of Mexico were sent back to shore Tuesday due to Tropical Storm Alex.
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Spill costs up to $2.65B; CEO not resigning
BP says mounting costs for cleaning up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have reached $2.65 billion.
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Alex not aiming at Gulf spill area - for now
A tropical weather system slamming into parts of Mexico has yet to take direct aim at the Gulf spill area for now.
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Storm could be latest problem in oil cleanup
A tropical storm churning in the Caribbean could mean bad news for BP crews trying to clean up the Gulf oil spill.
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BP: Gulf relief well on target for mid-August
Tests show BP is on target for mid-August completion of a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Friday.
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Cap back after robot nudge stalls oil collection
A cap on BP's broken oil well is back on after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove it on Wednesday.
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Oil gushing into Gulf after problem with cap
Hundreds of thousands of gallons more oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday after BP was forced to remove a cap.
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Judge blocks Gulf drilling moratorium
A judge has blocked a moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the Gulf oil spill.
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Video: BP executive heckled by protesters
A BP executive standing in for CEO Tony Hayward was heckled by protesters at an oil conference in London.
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BP Gulf spill costs hit $2B, no end yet
BP says it has spent $2 billion in two months fighting its Gulf of Mexico oil spill and compensating victims.
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Crews drill deep into Gulf to halt huge leak
Crews are drilling deeper to build the relief wells, the best hope of stopping the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf.
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Gulf residents heated by BP CEO's yacht trip
As the massive BP oil spill fouls the Gulf Coast, the company's CEO took time to attend a swanky yacht race in England.
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Stats show slow pace of spill claim payments
BP has paid less than 12 percent of claims submitted by people and businesses harmed by the massive Gulf oil spill.
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Congress slams BP chief; GOP rep. apologizes
Lawmakers at a Congressional hearing Tuesday fired shots at BP's chief for the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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