The first BP oil spill arrest: An instant guide
Posted on April 25, 2012, at 9:04 AMTwo years after the devastating disaster, the feds arrest a fairly minor player in the major BP oil spill. What's going on?
Has Big Oil learned its lesson from the Gulf spill?
Posted on April 4, 2011, at 6:18 PMBP wants to resume drilling in the Gulf. Meanwhile, the operators of the Deepwater Horizon rig give its executives bonuses for the "best year for safety ever." Huh?
Is BP guilty of manslaughter?
Posted on March 30, 2011, at 12:38 PMEleven workers were killed in the 2010 Gulf explosion that led to a devastating oil spill. Now federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges for BP managers
Did the BP spill kill the Gulf sea floor?
Posted on September 16, 2010, at 8:00 AMScientists think they've found some of the missing BP oil, spread in thick blankets on the seabed. That can't be good
Is BP shirking responsibility for the Gulf spill?
Posted on September 9, 2010, at 3:55 PMThe oil company released its internal investigation into the massive Gulf oil spill, and most of the fingers point outward
Oil-eating microbes: Fact or fiction?
Posted on August 27, 2010, at 10:41 AMGovernment scientists say oil-devouring bacteria are making the BP oil spill "disappear." Does it matter that BP is funding the research?
BP spill: The worst is yet to come
Posted on August 12, 2010, at 12:13 PMContrary to what BP wants you to believe, says Julia Whitty in Mother Jones, the catastrophic effects of the oil spill will last for generations
BP's chemical 'carpet-bombing' of the Gulf: How much damage?
Posted on August 3, 2010, at 10:45 AMWe're tantalizingly close to entering the clean-up phase of the record Gulf oil spill. Too bad oil isn't the only pollutant we have to deal with
Should gas stations ditch the BP name?
Posted on August 2, 2010, at 10:59 AMAs their sales tank, America's largely independent BP stations aren't sure they want to fly the oil-giant's colors anymore. Will BP let them rebrand?
An insider's view of the oil spill
Posted on July 30, 2010, at 10:00 AMIf BP overreached, writer Rick Bass thinks he understands why. He once hunted oil too
Where's the oil?
Posted on July 29, 2010, at 11:45 AMClean-up crews are reportedly finding it harder and harder to find the crude that leaked into the waters for three months. Where has it gone?
BP's Tony Hayward and 6 other disgraced CEOs who cashed out
Posted on July 29, 2010, at 9:00 AMDespite being the man most associated with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's embattled chief executive is leaving with a $930,000 annual pension. But he's not the only CEO to be rewarded for failure
Was Tony Hayward 'demonized'?
Posted on July 28, 2010, at 9:35 AMThe outgoing BP chief executive lashes out at the U.S. media — providing yet more evidence, some say, that he's inept at public relations
BP's scientist-'buying' plot
Posted on July 27, 2010, at 10:15 AMThe oil giant is offering side work worth more that $100,000 a year to marine researchers along the Gulf Coast. Critics say they're investing in tight lips
Will dumping Tony Hayward help BP?
Posted on July 26, 2010, at 12:15 PMBP's gaffe-prone CEO is reportedly on his way out. Does that signal that BP has finally turned the corner in the spill crisis?
BP spill: 5 apocalyptic scenarios
Posted on July 22, 2010, at 11:55 AMIt’s just an oil spill — how bad could it get? Truly catastrophic, according to some of the out-there theories being floated by concerned "experts"
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