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A new study shows that sediments fouled with oil from the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused problems for fish embryos. David Biello reports

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BP PLC is providing $69 million more for restoration projects for the Mississippi Gulf Coast following, says Gov. Phil Bryant. The money is part of $1 billion the oil giant agreed two years ago to pay …

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BEING CIVIL: After a $4 billion plea deal resolved BP's criminal liability for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company faces a trial that could cost it billions of dollars more in civil penalties.BLAME …

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Washington, Jan 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A US court has approved a settlement for BP to pay $4 billion in criminal penalties and plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Today a Louisiana judge accepted the guilty plea of oil giant British Petroleum in connection with the April 2010 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform that killed 11 workers, forcing BP to pay fine of $4 billion. But that doesn't mean BP's liability has been fully determined — indeed, it doesn't encompass the massive oil spill and widespread contamination that the Deepwater explosion led …

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(Reuters) – BP Plc is seeking an initial reduction of 17 percent in the amount of oil that will be used to calculate Clean Water Act penalties for its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a motion filed on Friday ahead of a trial in New Orleans next month, BP said about 833,000 barrels of oil that the U.S. government has acknowledged as "recovered" by the response team should be excluded …

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Businesses and individuals who claim BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company's class-action settlement with a team of private plaintiffs' …

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Three BP employees have appeared in court on the first stage of their trial on 11 counts of manslaughter over the 2010 blast on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig.

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Deep water got nearly all the bids in the third federal oil and gas lease in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP oil spill.

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Two BP rig supervisors and a former BP executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the company's response to the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Two BP supervisors pleaded not guilty Wednesday to manslaughter charges from the deadly 2010 oil spill disaster, as the British energy giant was banned from winning US government contracts.

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A BP rig supervisor said Wednesday that he is innocent of manslaughter in the deaths of 11 workers in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig that started the spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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• Suspension "standard practice" following criminal case-EPA * BP pleaded guilty over 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. governmenttemporarily banned BP Plc from federal contracts onWednesday over its "lack of business integrity" in the DeepwaterHorizon oil spill in 2010, a move that the British company hadsaid could force it to rethink its entire U.S …

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A federal judge has scheduled a closed-door meeting Thursday to discuss BP's agreement to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from its deadly 2010 rig explosion and response to the massive Gulf oil spill.

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LONDON (Reuters) – BP unveiled a reorganisation of its oil and gas production operations on Friday, reversing a change it enacted after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The latest move is partly intended to free Chief Executive Bob Dudley up from close oversight of day-to-day operations so he can help chart BP's recovery from the disaster which killed 11 men and spilled 5 million barrels of crude …

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US authorities have blamed two rig supervisors for the deaths of 11 workers killed when the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spawned BP's massive oil spill.

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NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Federal authorities have blamed two rig supervisors for the deaths of 11 workers killed when the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spawned BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a string of investigations spread fault among a host of people and companies.

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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Gulf Coast residents expressed two main emotions the day after BP Plc. agreed to pay $4.5 billion (2.8 billion pounds) and plead guilty to criminal misconduct stemming from the disastrous 2010 oil spill: relief that BP was being held accountable, and anger that it took more than two years to happen. "It was criminal what they did, and 11 people died, so BP needs to be …

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BP admits felony misconduct over Deepwater Horizon and will pay $4.5bn in penalties

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NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill ever. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the deal a "critical step forward" but was adamant that it did not end the criminal investigation of the 2010 spill. The settlement announced on …

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