August 4th, 2010

Heavy drilling-mud pumped into the blown-out BP well is holding back the flow of oil:

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June 10th, 2010

Citing the company’s history of safety lapses, cost cutting, and workplace disasters, shareholders who purchased stock in BP have filed a class-action lawsuit based on claims that the company mislead investors prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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June 10th, 2010

Citing the company’s history of safety lapses, cost cutting, and workplace disasters, shareholders who purchased stock in BP have filed a class-action lawsuit based on claims that the company mislead investors prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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May 28th, 2010

Goodness knows everyone wants to help. Take the thousands of people who swept up more than 400,000 pounds of human hair and animal fur (dogs, cats, even alpacas) to stuff inside what are essentially gigantic panty hose in an effort to soak up the oozing oil. (Unfortunately, engineers have said that’s not going to help much.) But where, when and how, will this gusher be stopped, and how can the damage be blunted? Pretty much everyone’s on the case.

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May 17th, 2010

BP Managing Director Bob Dudley discusses containment plans and liability costs:

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May 13th, 2010

From Green Right Now Reports

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has estimated the BP oil leak(s) to be about 210,000 gallons or about 5,000 barrels of oil a day.

But recently BP officials told investigators the oil could be rushing out much faster — at a rate of 2.5 million gallons a day — and further, there’s no way to really tell, for sure, how much is oozing into gulf waters.

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