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State of Texas Sues BP Over Air Pollution
By Christopher Weber
The state of Texas has filed suit against BP and, no, it's not related to the oil spill in the Gulf. The Lone Star State's attorney general accuses the oil giant of illegally emitting nearly 500,000 pounds of air pollutants at its Texas City refinery for more than a month in the spring of this ...
Obama, the GOP and the Knobe Effect: Why Negative Messages Win Votes
By Jeffrey Weiss
American politics has an August tradition: Incumbents and challengers fan through the nation claiming credit for the good they've done, blaming the other side for all manner of horribles -- then blaming each other for the "blame game." Guess which strategy generally catches the most traction with ...
BP Makes First $3 Billion Payment to Oil Spill Compensation Account
By Christopher Weber
BP has made its first payment to the $20-billion fund that will compensate victims of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Bloomberg reported that BP deposited $3 billion Monday into the escrow account set up in June after executives of the oil giant met with President Obama at the ...
Mission Accomplished? White House Touts Iraq, BP, Auto Industry Successes
By Alex Wagner
President Barack Obama wasn't exactly making a tailhook landing on an aircraft carrier and unfurling a "Mission Accomplished" banner, but the White House took aggressive steps this week to show the American public that it has achieved some very hard-won successes. On three major issues -- U.S. ...
Spike Lee's 'If God Is Willing:' New Orleans After Katrina -- and After BP
By Helena Andrews
When Spike Lee was a grad student living in New York, he'd call his grandmother, Zimmie Lee Shelton, every night. Shelton, the granddaughter of a slave and a graduate of Spelman College, helped put young Spike through Morehouse College and New York University Film School. Every night, their ritual ...
BP Testing for 'Static Kill' Aimed at Finally Sealing Deep-Sea Well
By Tom Diemer
BP planned one more test Tuesday as a prelude to attempting a "static kill" of its troublesome deep sea well that gushed record amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico since a drilling rig exploded April 20. The "injectivity" test -- pouring base oil into the well bore to see if it flows back down ...
What the Oil-Rig Cook Saw: Corruption, Mostly
By Ben Sandmel
For 15 years, Dan Peterson worked as a cook on oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. During much of that time Peterson lived on Grand Isle, the barrier island community that has experienced some of the worst damage from the BP spill. Although Peterson retired three years ago, he maintains close ties ...
Tony Hayward Replaced by American Robert Dudley at BP
By Politics Daily StaffThe embattled Tony Hayward is out and Mississippi native Robert Dudley is in at BP. The company, which has stopped oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico but has far to go to finish the job and clean up its mess, announced the expected change at the top early Tuesday. It also reported a $17 ...
The Oil Spill Has Stopped, but Berm Controversy Rages On
By Ben Sandmel
The cap on the Deepwater Horizon rig has held for 10 days now. This might mean that the BP oil spill has gushed its last, thus putting finite, if as yet immeasurable, limits on the huge cleanup that remains. But Saturday's emergence of a short-lived tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico was a harsh ...
Tony Hayward Said to Be Out as BP's Chief Executive in Wake of Oil Spill Fiasco
By Politics Daily Staff
Tony Hayward, the embattled chief executive of oil giant BP, is negotiating an exit from his job and is likely to be replaced within the next 24 hours by Robert Dudley, who has been directing the company's response to the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the New York Times and ...
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