Gulf oil spill News

BP released a statement to NewsCore that they have come to an agreement with those affected by the Gulf Oil Spill, which began with an explosion from the Deepwater Horizon nearly two years ago on April 20, 2010.

One million pounds of carbon were released into the atmosphere following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Spill, according to researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Speaking at the Cannes International Film Festival, Hollywood movie icon and environmental activist Peter Fonda lashed out at President Obama, considering the White House's actions on the BP oil spill traitorous.

Biloxi - The Obama administration has issued a gag order on data over the recent spike of dead dolphins, including many stillborn infants, washing up on Mississippi and Alabama shorelines, and scientists say the restriction undermines the scientific process.

Washington - The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against BP Exploration and Production Inc. and several other companies, in their first major legal action resulting from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Recent studies at Berkeley have led researcher Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to state that the deep oil plume has been eaten by microbes. Others don’t agree. There’s not even agreement about how much oil was recovered.

BP's use of prisoners to assist with the oil spill clean-up has been called an "open secret." In other words, the use of prisoners was not hidden -- but BP has not openly admitted to the project either.

One thing about the Great Financial Crisis: It really set the scene for streamlining procedures to avoid dealing with catastrophes. The BP spill has optimized the process, allowing for actual marketing of disasters.

Denver - Jeff Peckman's claim to fame is a video he released in 2008 that purports to show an alien in the window of a house. It wasn't his video, and it was not well received, but that hasn't stopped Peckman.

No sooner had the government touted the findings of an independent panel of experts showing that the rate of leaking oil in the gulf was far higher than previously reported, when two of the researchers began distancing themselves from the results.

I live in Louisiana, so I am biased. I'm a tree-hugger, so I am biased. I voted for Obama, and I suppose for some that makes me biased too. I am biased in believing no one knew at the outset how bad the spill was and no one knows now how to stop it.

EPA criminal investigator Scott West spent thousands of hours investigating alleged crimes committed by BP -- bound to have resulted in felony charges -- but President Bush's Department of Justice abruptly shut his investigation down, TruthOut reports.

Halifax - Canada's federal and Nova Scotia governments have extended the moratorium on oil and gas exploration and drilling on Georges Bank to December 31, 2015. They say the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had little to do with their decision.

Robert - While some scientists have determined the oil spill to be anywhere from 1 to 5 million barrels, BP continues to assert, backed up by the Coast Guard, that it hasn't established the spill as any more than the 5,000 daily barrels estimated earlier.