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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: Energy Resources, Hospitals and Clinics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, BP Plc, Transportation Accidents
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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: Litigation, Eric Holder, Environmental Pollution, Halliburton Company, Court Preliminary
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Expert calls Ind. stage collapse compensation fair
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The architect of compensation for victims of last year's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was "exceedingly fair" with victims. Victims' compensation specialist Kenneth Feinberg tells The...
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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: Health and Safety at Work, Technology, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Democratic Party
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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: Genes and Chromosomes, Research, Louisiana State University, Environmental Pollution, Ecosystems
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Tougher rules hit fishermen, industry hard
MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Charter captains and recreational fishermen in the southeast say tighter restrictions on what fish and how many they can catch are keeping more of them away from the sport. The limits on such popular sport fish as...Tags: Fishing, Petroleum Industry
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Killing of bin Laden voted top news story of 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan's earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S....Tags: Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Japan, Guerrilla Activity
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Highlights of Obama's $3.73 trillion budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at what President Barack Obama has requested in his $3.73 trillion budget for the 2012 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. ____ Agency: Agriculture Spending: $145.6 billion Percentage Change from 2011: 1.5 percent decrease...Tags: Retirement, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Insurance
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Should I Invest in BP?
Paul ReasonerPaul...I have a little bit of extra savings and I would like to get started building an investment portfolio. It seems to me with all the negative publicity that BP might be an excellent stock to buy. Sooner or later this huge oil spill thing will end and...Tags: Retirement, Environmental Pollution, BP Plc, Stock Broking, Family
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O'Bannon vs. NCAA: Judge weighing class-action certification
For the last few years, the powers that be in college sports have watched nervously as an antitrust lawsuit wends its way through federal court. O'Bannon vs. NCAA is challenging traditional notions of amateurism, arguing that young athletes should...
Tags: Oregon State Beavers, Television Industry, Gaming, Financial Aid, Entertainment
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New indictments for ex-BP executive, engineer over Gulf spill
Reuters* U.S. accuses David Rainey, Kurt Mix of obstruction * 2010 offshore spill largest in U.S. history By Jonathan Stempel June 19 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal indictments on Wednesday against a former BP Plc executive and a...Tags: BP Plc, Prosecution, Lawyers, U.S. Department of Justice, Gulf of Mexico
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Offshore oil industry experiments with remote control
Reuters* BP controlling wells at Valhall offshore field from land * Other oil companies considering following suit * Norway is testing ground for new method By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, June 18 (Reuters) - Oil and gas companies are moving...Tags: Norway, Government, Safety of Citizens, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unions
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