Published on Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Scientists have for the first time made a conclusive link between the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and an unprecedented dolphin die-off along the Gulf’s northern coast. Bottlenose dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama experienced an “unusual mortality event” beginning in […]
Published on Sunday, February 08, 2015 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer The biggest U.S. oil workers’ strike in more than three decades just grew even larger, with two mid-western BP plants joining in the work stoppage to demand basic health and safety protections from some of the world’s most powerful fossil fuel corporations. The United Steelworkers […]
Published on Tuesday, December 09, 2014 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer Despite BP’s public relations blitz and high-priced team of lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the oil giant’s challenge to a settlement of billions of dollars for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion oil spill. The challenge was just the latest attempt […]
Published on Thursday, September 04, 2014 by Common Dreams by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Developing… The 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of BP’s “gross negligence” and “willful misconduct,” a federal judge has ruled. The ruling on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier means the oil giant could be responsible for as much […]
Oil giant strikes deal with EPA despite 11 counts of manslaughter and ongoing devastation to coastal communities
After examining dolphins in the Gulf following the disaster, scientists from NOAA found prevalent symptoms indicative of “petroleum hydrocarbon exposure and toxicity.”
politics, money and the pursuit of oil, from the series of pipelines originating in the oil-rich Caspian Sea to the deposits in the Arctic Sea
The ad, featuring comments from both the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, criticizes the process by which local residents, small-business owners, and impacted communities have been compensated
US federal judge has blocked attempts Friday by oil giant British Petroleum (BP) to temporarily suspend payments to victims of the 2010 Gulf oil spill
Shell’s new well will begin at almost twice that depth of the Macondo: 9,500 feet under water. The site of the well, the “Stones field”, is 200 miles south-west of New Orleans.