Sentences with phrase «of gulf oil spill»

2010: We represent Hyundai Heavy Industries, the manufacturer of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, in multidistrict litigation arising out of the Gulf oil spill.

Suzanne Goldenberg, «Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill.»

Environmentalists were especially upset about it in light of the gulf oil spill.

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Amazingly, though this hasn't been confirmed, further Business Insider analysis points to TransOcean (of Gulf Oil Spill fame, remember) operating the drilling vessel at the appraisal well.

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A new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant contends that the amount of oil remaining in the water in the wake of the Gulf oil spill is far higher than reported.

One month after beginning of Gulf oil spill, groups call on President Obama to ban new offshore drilling

One lesson of the Gulf oil spill that is an ominous warning about climate change is that the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrates that what are often initially believed to be low probability, in fact unforeseeable, catastrophic impacts do happen.

David Brancaccio, a longtime correspondent for public radio and television, has written a fascinating post on his new Economy 4.0 blog for the Marketplace radio show analyzing the economic impacts of the gulf oil spill six months after explosions killed 11 workers and unleashed the gusher in the seabed.

In fact, living bottlenose dolphins from those areas got a relatively clean bill of health when examined by researchers a year after the spill whereas dolphins from Barataria Bay in Louisiana — the oiliest place in the wake of the Gulf oil spill — had a series of health issues, and one pregnant female was carrying a dead fetus.

«Kentucky's Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill today as putting «his boot heel on the throat of BP» and «really un-American.»

Disasters of the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill are hard to get a handle on.

If you want to see the most depressing (and mind - boggling) summation of the Gulf Oil Spill, here you go.

In a move that surprises approximately no one, BP CEO Tony Hayward, who's come under huge amounts of criticism for his handling of the Gulf Oil Spill, is expected to step down today.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Not exact matches

Canadian CEOs think both BP and the White House failed in their response to the devastating oil spill that continues to pour 800,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.

High - profile attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has handled compensation issues related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has linked 124 deaths and 275 injuries to General Motors» recalled ignition switches.

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.

Black Elk struggled financially after a November 2012 explosion on a Gulf of Mexico rig killed three workers and caused an oil spill.

A few days may seem like an eternity in the world of the Internet, but it's a vast improvement over how long it took BP CEO Tony Hayward to own up to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $ 1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient oil - recovery solution.

Following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Schwarzenegger abandoned plans for new drilling off the California coast that could have raised $ 118 million in the coming year.

The Gulf oil spill resulted in an outright ban on the drilling of exploratory wells that was only recently lifted.

In 1970, the Irving Whale oil barge sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, resulting in a significant oil spill that fouled the shoreline of the Magdalen Islands.

The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300 miles of coastline in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.

With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now the worst in US history, public pressure is growing on BP to contain and remove the ever - spreading slick.

The oil major currently trades at a fraction of its net asset value, thanks mostly to the black eye it took from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

Additional Successes in the Landmark BP Litigation In October 2014, Pomerantz once again secured crucial victories in its ground - breaking litigation over BP plc's («BP») 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill on the Gulf Coast in 2010 cost British Petroleum a total of US$ 62 billion.

Rising petrol prices have stalled BP's recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill despite early signs of recovery in the eyes...

Payments related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill amounted to $ 5.2 billion.

Shares in the oil drilling services firm Transocean (RIG) are rising by about 2.5 % premarket after the company said it had reached two settlements related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.

God does not exist, so to wait on him to fix our problems is as futile as as hoping to mop up the gulf oil spill with a roll of paper towels.

This new, smaller pipe will be used to siphon off some of the oil that's spilling into the Gulf at an alarming rate.

BP has released a report about the Gulf Oil Spill, saying that there were a number of failures from several different parties.

The fire that caused an oil rig to explode on Tuesday has resulted in a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, with a oil slick about 10 miles in diameter covering the ocean surface.

New estimates suggest that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be five times worse than originally estimated.

Despite the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year — which Avery says the company has almost completely recovered from — the nation is still demanding shrimp from oceans near U.S. borders.

As an example, Barnes cites his procurement of seafood, an item that proved to be difficult for many in the food industry to acquire at reasonable prices following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

During the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, former BP CEO Tony Hayward went on camera saying, «I would like my life back,» which suggested to Louisiana residents that fixing the leak may not be his top priority.

Given BP's difficulty to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, why would the US government entrust it to contain trangene flow from the world's first synthetic life form?

They've responded following oil spills in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and South Africa.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the Gulf oil spill (for example: «oil spill»), with its ads showing up at the top of the results column whenever people look for those keywords.

On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here's more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil slick.