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BP pays $12M in claims to date in bad gas recall
WHITING, Ind. (AP) — BP says it has paid more than $12 million in claims arising from a multistate recall of incorrectly formulated gasoline that damaged some vehicles' mechanical components. BP spokesman Scott Dean tells The Times of Munster...
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2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...Tags: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Department of the Interior, Oil Spills, Energy Resources
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BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 disaster in the Gulf of...
Tags: Criminals, Mexico, Explosions, Petroleum Industry, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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Business heats up for high-temp manufacturer
South Bend TribuneNEW CARLISLE -- Unifrax, descended from the Carborundum ceramic fiber insulation company that opened a New Carlisle plant more than 40 years ago, has enjoyed rapid global growth in the last decade. The New Carlisle operation, with 150 employees in a 300,...Tags: Czech Republic, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Plant Openings
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BP recall now 4.7M gallons; Indiana affected
WHITING, Ind. (AP) — BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported at 4.7 million gallons distributed as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. BP spokesman Scott Dean said Wednesday the...
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Bad BP gas leaves drivers with car problems
As WSBT'S chief photographer, we'd like to think DeMarco Brown has all the answers. But after returning home from a vacation out west, one thing left him puzzled: What's wrong with the family van? "Gassed up, everything was fine," said Brown. "Got...
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Indiana officials to look into BP gasoline recall
WHITING, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana attorney general's office on Wednesday opened an investigation to ensure BP quickly responds to consumers' complaints about vehicles damaged by contaminated gasoline that was distributed from storage terminals in...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers, Justice System, Lawyers
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Board: BP missed the big hazard issues in spill
WASHINGTON (AP) — BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and wasn't as strict on overall safety when drilling rigs involved other...
Tags: Mexico, Bob Graham, Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science and Technology
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Trial opens for suit against Costner over BP deal
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two Hollywood stars could spend the next two weeks in a New Orleans courtroom rather than on camera, on opposite sides in a real-life legal drama. Jury selection is scheduled Monday for Stephen Baldwin's federal lawsuit against...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Baldwin, Civil Laws, Laws
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2 years later, fish sick near BP oil spill site
BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are...
Tags: University of South Alabama, Food and Drug Administration, Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Science
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Indiana House Dems end long right-to-work fight
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In the end, they just didn't have the votes.
For two legislative sessions, Indiana Democrats fought the divisive labor measure known as right-to-work. They offered amendments aimed at changing the bill. They sought to put the...Tags: Voting, Democratic Party, Government, Labor Legislation, Mitch Daniels
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Expansion expected to bring hundreds of jobs to LaGrange County town
TOPEKA – More people know what it's like to be out of a job in LaGrange County than most others in the state. At one point during the recession the unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent – the second highest jobless rate in Indiana. But things...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Companies and Corporations
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