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Trial Set To Start On BP's Responsibility For Gulf Oil Spill

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Trial Set To Start On BP's Responsibility For Gulf Oil Spill

February 25, 2013 • The federal government will seek to show BP was guilty of gross negligence. The company will make the case that the blame should be shared with other firms. It's possible a settlement will be reached.

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Judge Approves BP's Manslaughter Plea In 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

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Judge Approves BP's Manslaughter Plea In 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

January 29, 2013 • The deal also includes a record $4 billion in criminal penalties. Family members for some of those victims had urged stiffer sanctions.

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Four More BP Employees Will Be Charged In Oil Spill

November 15, 2012 • High ranking official, David Rainey, the former head of Gulf of Mexico exploration, will be charged with downplaying the spill to lawmakers. Two others will be charged with manslaughter.

Criminal Charges Possible Against BP Engineers For Gulf Oil Spill

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Criminal Charges Possible Against BP Engineers For Gulf Oil Spill

December 29, 2011 • Justice Department prosecutors are considering the first such charges related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history — a disaster that also killed 11 workers when an oil rig blew up.

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Gulf Spill Blamed On Poor Management, Bad Cement Job, Other Missteps

September 14, 2011 • The worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history started with an explosion and fire that killed 11 oil rig workers in April 2010. BP, investigators say, "was ultimately responsible for conducting operations" at the site.

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Mississippi Sues BP Oil Fund Administrator, Seeking Access To Records

July 12, 2011 • Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is suing BP oil spill fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg, in an attempt to force open the books at the Gulf Coast Claims Facility.

Blog Of The Nation

April 20th Show

April 20, 2011 • In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, the political junkie, and tracking a drug submarine. In the second hour, the murky legality of online gambling, and the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill.

BP Loses Laptop With Claimants' Private Data

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BP Loses Laptop With Claimants' Private Data

March 30, 2011 • BP loses laptop filled with data from thousands of Gulf oil spill claimants

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BP: No Bonuses For Heads Of Gulf Operations

March 3, 2011 • BP will not give bonuses to two executives who ran the oil giant's Gulf of Mexico operations last year: former CEO Tony Hayward, and the former head of exploration and production Andy Inglis.

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Oil Spill Fund Issues 20,000 Denials Over Claims Of Loss, Damage

November 1, 2010 • The number of rejected claims for compensation for damage from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill spiked in October -- to 20,000 from just 125 claims at the end of September. Kenneth Feinberg says many lacked crucial information.

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Tests Showed Cement Was Unstable Before BP Spill

October 28, 2010 • Before the massive blowout of BP's Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, tests showed that the cement Halliburton pumped down into the well could be unstable, according to a presidential commission studying the Deepwater Horizon spill.

It's All Politics

'Obama's Katrina' Turned Out Not To Be

October 20, 2010 • Obama seems to have escaped deep lasting damage from the BP oil spill which once seemed unlikely. But the president may have helped his critics' narrative that he's killed jobs with his moratorium on Gulf oil drilling.

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BP Must Complete Relief Well: Adm. Allen

August 13, 2010 • BP must complete its relief well after leaking was found from an earlier try to kill its rogue Gulf of Mexico well. The use of a relief well is the energy industry's textbook method for killing an uncontrolled gusher.

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Obama Operative Didn't Create Vanishing-Oil Report: AP

August 6, 2010 • An Obama operative didn't create the vanishing Gulf oil report, according to NOAA. His name was mistakenly included in the report as its creator due to a "technical glitch," AP reported.

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BP: Sea Floor Seepage is Natural

July 19, 2010 • BP said seepage on the sea floor a few miles from the broken well is natural.