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President Obama takes credit for a rebound in drilling jobs, while Mitt Romney criticizes the president's policies as outdated. In a community that vividly recalls the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the issue is personal. LAFAYETTE, La. — Visitors to this oil town might be forgiven for wondering whether the BP oil spill and subsequent drilling moratorium ever happened. "Now hiring" signs are ...
A 28-year-old Gulfport man has been sentenced to prison for 37 months and ordered to make restitution of $27,000 for fraud involving an oil-spill recovery claim.
On Nov. 7, something went wrong at a deep-sea oil well operated by Chevron 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. As a massive drill bit punctured reservoir N560, roughly 3,500 feet beneath the ocean floor, monitors...
A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for a federal judge's permission to travel freely throughout ...
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 28-year-old Gulfport man has been sentenced to prison for 37 months and ordered to make restitution of $27,000 for fraud involving an oil-spill recovery claim. The Sun Herald reports Moses W. Keys was sentenced Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. also ordered three years of probation. Keys had received an emergency check for $23,200 on Oct. 13, 2010, for ...
Amid a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of funds paid by BP after the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a Panhandle county made big changes this week in the way it oversees spending for promotion of the area’s world-famous beaches. …
Amid a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of funds paid by BP after the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a Florida Panhandle county made big changes Tuesday in the way it oversees spending for promotion of the area's world-famous beaches.
An attorney for a man convicted of fraudulently asking for assistance after the Gulf oil spill wants to delay his sentencing so the lawyer can have more time to review a mental evaluation.
HARTLEY BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The leadership of the Gitga'at Nation held an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss what they see as a failure of the federal government to respond appropriately ...
Two years ago, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform led to the spilling of almost five million barrels of oil in just a handful of months. I wrote the following post in June of that year, two months after the spill began.
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