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  • Texas on Friday became the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history
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  • Houston City Council has made an eleventh hour decision to pursue $23 million in damages from BP nearly three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast area
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  • One area family is mourning a loss while another waits for an update on their loved who was also held hostage in Algeria
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  • In this undated image released Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, by BP petroleum company, showing the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Islamist militants from Mali attacked the Amenas natural gas field partly operated by BP in Algeria early on Wednesday, killing a security guard and kidnapping at least eight people, including English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals, an Algerian security official and local media reported. Algerian forces, later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers and negotiations for the release of the hostages are ongoing, officials said.(AP Photo/BP)
  • The group, which claims to be linked to al-Qaida, said it was holding 41 foreigners, including seven Americans
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  • BP agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record $4.5B for the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster
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  • BP agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record $4.5B for the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, and 3 employees are now charged
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  • A huge plume of smoke could be seen for miles, but according to plant officials, it did not pose a threat to anyone nearby
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  • A huge plume of smoke could be seen for miles, but according to plant officials, it did not pose a threat to anyone nearby
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  • SkyEye 13 HD was over the scene of the blaze Tuesday afternoon
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  • Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft strengthened its hold on the country's lucrative oil industry Monday when it sealed a $61 billion deal, buying TNK-BP, the joint venture between a group of Russian oil oligarchs, and BP, the British the energy company.
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  • BP has finally found a buyer for its Texas City refinery, one of the largest and most complex in the U.S
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  • BP PLC is selling some deep-water Gulf of Mexico oil and gas properties to Texas-based Plains Exploration and Production Co. for $5.55 billion
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  • Shrimpers say things have changed for the worse, but an expert says there's no proof the bad catch is a result of 2010 oil spill
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  • A Katy man, an ex-engineer for BP, was arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence tied to Deepwater Horizon spill
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  • A small fire ignited at the BP plant in Texas City Friday afternoon
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  • A small fire is burning at the British Petroleum plant in Texas City
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  • What's being called a "minor leak" at the British Petroleum plant in Texas City is now contained and officials say it never impacted anyone outside the plant
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  • Today, the BP Refinery in Texas City will hold a moment of silence to mark the seventh anniversary of a deadly explosion
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  • The Justice Department is said to be getting ready to file what would be the first criminal charges against BP employees in connection to the gulf oil disaster
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  • A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed prosecutors' argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska's North Slope
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  • BP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill
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  • A foul odor covering Texas City is coming from a leak at the BP refinery
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  • The companies involved in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history are trying to prevent government investigations blaming them for the disaster from being used against them by the people and businesses who are suing them
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  • U.S. officials have given BP the go-ahead to drill a new deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico, its first such permit since last year's catastrophic oil spill
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  • A key federal report laid much of the blame on BP for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers, particularly with regard to the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill
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  • Several refineries and chemical plants in southeast Texas have restarted after power outages earlier this week shut them down
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  • We wanted to know why there was a big difference in air monitoring results, and when it happened again today things had changed
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  • We have new information on what was being released into the air after a power outage affected Texas City plant and refineries
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  • Overnight power problems at three Texas City refineries and a chemical plant also forced school cancellations and delays
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  • Residents in Texas City were asked to shelter in place due to power outages at a couple of plants
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  • Texas City ISD cancelled classes for today, but that means students will still have to take the state-mandated TAKS test
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  • Texas City police confirms a new shelter-in-place has been issued near the Valero Plant there following a power outage
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  • It's been a year since the Gulf oil spill, and beaches along the coast are slowly seeing the tourism return
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  • It's been a year since the onset of the worst oil spill in U.S. history
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  • Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows
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  • In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear -- much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows
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  • A BP official has been questioned about the roles and responsibilities of personnel aboard an oil rig that exploded last April in the Gulf of Mexico, as a federal panel's hearings on the explosion and oil spill continue
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  • The company at the center of the Gulf oil spill wants access to a key piece of evidence in the federal investigation so it can do additional testing it says a government contractor has refused to do
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  • The company announced plans to sell two U.S. refineries including the Texas City facility where 15 workers died in a massive explosion in 2005
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  • A committee says the disaster was a result of decisions meant to save money and time, creating an unreasonable amount of risk
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  • The National Oil Spill Commission today is releasing in advance the chapter from its upcoming full report that contains the key findings from its extensive investigation into the causes of the blowout of BP's Macondo well
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  • The Justice Department sued BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster
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  • The co-chair of a presidential panel investigating the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history says the disaster cannot be blamed solely on BP
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  • It's the first finding from the commission looking into the causes of the April blast that killed 11 and led to the nation's worst oil spill
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  • People along the Gulf coast are facing uncertainty following the Gulf oil spill, and the legal fight can linger long after the cleanup
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british petroleum, alaska, louisiana, gulf oil spill, local, christine dobbyn
  • Valez, AK and Venice, LA may be two very different communities 4,000 miles apart, but they have a strong connection
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  • Mother of infant who died after weeks of undisclosed releases of hazardous chemicals from Texas City refinery sued BP
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  • Two lawsuits have been filed against the oil giant, focusing on health and safety violations at its refinery in Texas City
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  • Crews hope to begin pumping mud down the throat of the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf
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