Tag: Bp
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2 Years After the BP Spill: Oceana Says It's Not If Another Oil Spill Will Happen, But When
Oceana's Jacqueline Savitz reminds us that unless we shift to clean energy and away from more fossil fuels and offshore drilling another BP oil spill is inevitable.
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2 Years After the BP Spill: 2 Big Unanswered Questions + A Prior Accident Hidden From Congress
On the two year anniversary TreeHugger takes a look at how well the Gulf ecosystem is recovering, where BP's civil damages stand, and at some shocking evidence that BP hid the true cause of a similar accident from Congress.
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The Week in Animal News: Pigeons Poop Soap, Giant Pandas Won't Have Sex and More
A crazy project wants to alter pigeons' diets to make them poop soap and clean our cities. A study on panda's sex habits shows why reproductive success is so elusive and more.
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Energy News: Cape Wind Will Lower Electricity Rates; Japan's Residential Solar Soars; More
Beyond the headline: Pennsylvania towns challenge fracking being shoved down their throats; BP looks to the Amazon for more oil; Alberta, Canada's oil rush shortchanges locals. Keep reading for the details.
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BP Oil Spill Settlement Reached With Gulf Coast Residents
No cap has been set on claims to be paid, though BP expects to pay out $7.8 billion in compensation. Fines by the US government will be on top of this.
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Protecting Louisiana’s People and Bayou From BP
As the trial approaches, BP must pay for the complete restoration of the Gulf Coast after its deadly oil disaster.
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BP Gulf Oil Spill Civil Trial Delayed To March 5
Originally supposed to begin today, Judge Carl Barbier has delayed the start of the trial for one week so that further settlement talks can take place.
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BP May Be Liable For Billions In Civil Damages For Gulf Oil Spill, Judge Rules
All that back and forth about how much oil really flowed into the Gulf in 2010 has again come into high relief.
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Most of Deepwater Horizon Spill's Oil Never Reached the Surface
"The visible surface slick that people were riveted by during the months of the spill was really only 15 percent of the total mass." - NOAA Scientist
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So Much for 'Beyond Petroleum': BP Drops Solar Division After 40 Years of Operations
Apparently, when the going gets tough, BP cuts and runs. After 40 years of existence, now that solar power is more necessary than ever, the giant oil company has decided to drop its solar division.
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A Gulf Fisherman Struggles for Economic Survival (Video)
Oil seems to be a double curse for the fishermen of the Gulf Coast. Not only are they dealing with the devastating fallout of the BP oil spill, but they are struggling to keep up with ever-rising fuel costs too. Having
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What Could the Oil Spilled in the Gulf Have Been Used For? Animated Video Explores the Answer
Chris Harmon, an animation artist and designer, wondered that question—what would the estimated 100-180 million gallons of oil be used for, if it hadn't been spilled into the Gulf? Harmon says he spent a month
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Hundreds of Indian Workers Trafficked to the U.S. for Defense Subcontractor Signal International
After Hurricane Katrina, Signal International lost a lot of its workforce. To fill in the newly missing spots, it had a recruiter to import workers from India: workers who were told they'd come to America for a great job and
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Is This the Worst Oil Advertisement Ever?
Throughout the Gulf oil spill, BP pulled out all the stops to try and save their image -- with a slurry of off-the-mark television advertisements airing across the United States. Still, their pricey PR campaign couldn't come
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Archaeologists Sound Alarm about Risk BP Drilling in Libya Could Pose to Ancient Sites
With its rich ancient sites only recently opened up to visitors, Libya's slowly developing tourism industry may be in trouble before
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Sylvia Earle on the Gulf Disaster and Saving the Seas (Podcast)
She's truly one of the ocean's best friends. Sylvia Earle's career--and it's an epic one-- has been all about protecting and exploring the sea she loves so deeply. Earle served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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It's Not Time to Scale Back the Gulf Coast Cleanup, Is It?
With the flow of oil from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico capped and most of the spilled oil skimmed from the water's surface, incoming CEO Robert Dudley said last
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Will the BP Oil Spill Spur Cleanup Research Funding?
It would be more than far-fetched to talk about an upside or a "silver lining" to the devastating BP Gulf spill, but with the toxic
