Sentences with phrase «bp oil spill disaster»

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In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

Hodgson points to disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine collapse where inquiries found flawed governance at BP (BP) and Massey Energy, respectively.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

The outgoing BP chief was answering questions on the oil spill's implications for the UK, including whether a similar disaster could occur with operations in the North Sea.

Even after the financial meltdown, the BP oil spill and the Massey mine disaster, these guys still want more deregulation.

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $ 1.25 bn (# 870m), as its much - criticised chief executive vows to spend «what it takes» to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America.

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

Peter Berg puts a blue - collar spin on the 2010 BP oil spill in this immensely entertaining disaster epic.

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have carved out a niche as re-constructors of real - life disasters, from a Navy Seal op in 2014's Lone Survivor to the BP oil spill in last year's Deepwater Horizon.

When BP engaged with investors after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.

These pieces offer a way of making sense of the world following disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.

But the city also has developed a myriad of local institutions that defy the disaster tourism inspired by Katrina and the BP oil spill.

You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction.

Brad Johnson, then writing for Think Progress, explained that Witt O'Brien's PIER Systems was «being used by Unified Command for media and public information management» during the Deepwater Horizon spill in an article titled, «BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors.»

Over the last two months the U.S. Congress has been engaged in a great operatic drama over what many have called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history: the BP Gulf oil spill.

In Congress, I will fight to protect our oceans and the wildlife they support from pollution, human - caused disasters like the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, overfishing, and other potential threats.

Seven years is about three lifetimes in turbine technology yet there was no mention of newer, safer machines, nor were the words «Fukushima disaster» or «BP oil spill» heard in answer.

You only have to think about the damage caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year to see a true environmental disaster.

Failure of blowout preventers to halt a sudden rush of oil and gas has been cited as one of the chief contributors to the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.

By this point, nearly two months since the start of the BP oil spill, you've probably seen a lot of video interviews with people from the Gulf Coast telling you how the disaster has royally screwed up their lives.

We wish we could say the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the only horrific environmental disaster this year.

That's why an article on «The World's Ongoing Ecological Disasters» — some of which make the BP spill pale in comparison — offered an especially striking reminder that there are ecosystems and people suffering outside the eye of the nightly news.A Five - Decade Oil Spill in Nigeria In his piece this week for Foreign Policy, author Joshua E. Keating highlights five global environmental catastrophes that appear to be even harder to solve that the BP sspill pale in comparison — offered an especially striking reminder that there are ecosystems and people suffering outside the eye of the nightly news.A Five - Decade Oil Spill in Nigeria In his piece this week for Foreign Policy, author Joshua E. Keating highlights five global environmental catastrophes that appear to be even harder to solve that the BP sSpill in Nigeria In his piece this week for Foreign Policy, author Joshua E. Keating highlights five global environmental catastrophes that appear to be even harder to solve that the BP spillspill.

I've been wondering recently whether we'll see the worst of the BP gulf oil spill at all; whether the combined use of toxic chemical dispersants and media corralling would prevent the public from ever fully grasping the extent of the disaster.

If you want a quick overview of all the impacts that the BP oil spill has had (and is having) on the entire marine ecosystem, from the ocean floor to the air above the surface, look no further than NRDC's new Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster interactive graphoil spill has had (and is having) on the entire marine ecosystem, from the ocean floor to the air above the surface, look no further than NRDC's new Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster interactive graphOil Disaster interactive graphic.

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If you've paid attention at all to the headlines today, you've undoubtedly noticed that during his latest trip to view the BP oil spill clean - up efforts President Obama likened the changes this disaster could have in energy

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But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.

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In fact, you could argue that the BP spill has taught America as absolutely little as a major oil disaster possibly could.

The LCJC was first established in 2005 to provide legal assistance for people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and it has continuously operated a hotline since, offering legal services to low - income and elderly clients as well as those affected by disasters like the BP oil spill.

This includes insurance litigation and bad faith insurance; class actions; defective pharmaceutical and medical products; and environmental disasters, including BP oil spill claims for economic business losses.

The course will explore a selection of celebrated mass tort lawsuits, such as those involving the Buffalo Creek disaster, the Woburn leukemia case, Agent Orange, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the concussion / brain injury cases against the NFL and other sports, cigarette smoking, the Dalkon Shield, Bendectin, MTBE, and asbestos.

Alexandria, Va, Aug. 24, 2010 - The five year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster is approaching while the nation still assesses the aftermath of the BP oil spill in the Gulf region.

However, the problem of determining where specifically within a given causal chain to assign moral responsibility to individual members is a problem endemic to any collective action whatsoever, from the Challenger disaster, to the BP oil spill, to global poverty.