BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill timeline
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Oil Spill Reaches Florida Coast
Tar balls and oil have finally invaded Northwest Florida's pristine coastline, turning Pensacola and Navarre beaches into a spectacle of media... Read more
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BP Announces Initial Success of Cap Over Gulf Oil Leak
With the broken well dumping as much as 19,000 to 25,000 barrels a day into the Gulf, Admiral Allen said that engineers hope to gradually increase... Read more
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Obama Administration States Intention to Allow Reopening of Shallow Gulf Drilling, Retain Moratorium on Deepwater Drilling
The Obama administration, facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday that it... Read more
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Poll Rates Government Response to Gulf Spill Lower than Katrina Response
A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares... Read more
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Leaked Report Reveals Years of Disregard for Government Oversight at BP
A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental... Read more
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New Orleans Saints Announce Superbowl Ring Raffle to Raise $1 Million for Gulf Oil Spill Relief
The New Orleans Saints will raffle off a Super Bowl championship ring to raise money for the cleanup efforts on the Gulf Coast. Raffle tickets will... Read more
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Small Second Oil Leak Confirmed in Gulf
As if the oil spill in the gulf weren’t already sticky and complicated enough, news started emerging late Tuesday of a second oil well in the... Read more
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President Obama Makes Uncharacteristically Impassioned 'Whose Ass to Kick' Comment
President Obama offered an impassioned defense of his administration’s handling of the oil spill today, promising to make sure BP paid for the... Read more
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BP CEO Scheduled to Appear Before Congress to Answer for Gulf Oil Spill
Battered BP CEO, Tony Hayward, has been summoned to testify before U.S. lawmakers next week, according to a letter released Tuesday. The... Read more
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BP Chief Operating Officer Announces Gulf Oil Spill Soon Down to "Trickle"
On a day when skepticism about BP's oil-cleaning ways is at a high pitch, take this for what it's worth: The company tells AP that the gushing oil... Read more
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Administration Official Says President Obama to Meet with BP Chairman at White House to Discuss Oil Spill
President Barack Obama is seeking a meeting with BP Plc Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and other “appropriate” company officials to discuss the... Read more
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US Government Scientists Double Oil Flow Estimates
Two teams of scientists working for the federal government have upped the estimates of oil flowing from the crippled Deepwater Horizon well... Read more
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BP Stock Hits 13-Year Low Following Gulf Oil Spill
It’s probably not terribly surprising that BP’s stock hit a 13-year low this morning—unless, apparently, you’re BP. The company put out a statement... Read more
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BP Agrees to Expedite Claims for Compensation from Businesses Damaged by Oil Spill
Pressure from the Obama administration convinced BP to speed up the payment of claims to those affected by the Gulf oil spill, the Washington Post... Read more
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President Obama Accuses Congress of Hypocrisy in Criticism of Response to Gulf Oil Spill
President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress are being hypocritical when it comes to blaming the White House for its handling... Read more
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Horizon Relief Announces Sale of Bottles of Crude Oil as Part of Gulf Spill Relief Effort
A relief organization is bottling up the gooey BP oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico and selling it—for $1,000 a pop. The nonprofit HorizonRelief.org,... Read more
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BP Agrees to Purchase 32 of Actor Kevin Costner's Centrifugal Oil and Water Separating Machines
Actor Kevin Costner's oil-spill device has all the approval it needs to scoop the goop from the Gulf of Mexico, but is waiting for money from BP,... Read more
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Obama to Demand Billions in Compensation from BP, According to Administration Officials
n his first-ever Oval Office speech tomorrow night, President Obama will demand that BP hand over billions of dollars to an independent mediator... Read more
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US Congressional Investigators Alleges BP Carelessness
The letter cites an email in which a BP engineer calls the project a “nightmare well which has everyone all over the place.” It also cites evidence... Read more
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First Oval Office Speech by President Obama, Addresses Gulf Oil Spill
President Obama accused BP of "recklessness" in the first Oval Office address of his presidency tonight and swore not to rest until the company has... Read more
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Better Information Leads Scientists to Increase Oil Spill Estimate
"This estimate brings together several scientific methodologies and the latest information from the sea floor," said energy chief Steven Chu. The... Read more
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Oil Executives Distance Their Companies from BP at Congressional Hearing
Top executives from Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC sought to distance themselves from rival BP PLC before a... Read more
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BP Agrees to $20 Billion Escrow Fund for Spill Victims
BP has agreed to finance a $20 billion fund to pay the claims of people whose jobs and way of life have been damaged by the Gulf oil spill, senior... Read more
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First Dead Whale Found in Gulf Oil Spill
On Tuesday, the NOAA Ship Pisces discovered and reported a dead sperm whale 150 miles south of Pascagoula, Miss. and 77 miles due south of the BP... Read more
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BP Chief Executive Disavows Direct Responsibility for Gulf Oil Spill in Testimony before US Congress
r responsibility for the decisions that lead to the Deepwater Horizon explosion today, in the face of a grilling from lawmakers. “I was simply not... Read more