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Japan nuclear plant starts pumping out radioactive water to clear access to...

TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant began pumping highly radioactive water Tuesday from the basement of one of its buildings to a makeshift storage area in a crucial step toward...

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BP Voted “Worst Company in America”

NEW YORK CITY, New York – BP has been named the "Worst Company in America" after winning an on-line contest hosted by Consumerist.com. The oil giant's victory comes just two days before the first...

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Site visits at center of Chevron environmental case

Donald Moncayo walks to the edge of a flat grassy field that once held two large pits that brimmed with a stew of water and crude from an oil-drilling operation. He lifts a heavy auger above his head...

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BP is looking strong a year after Gulf oil spill

It's hard to tell that just a year ago BP was reeling from financial havoc and an American public out for blood. The oil giant at the center of one of the world's biggest environmental crises is making...

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Sick fish suggest oil spill still affecting Gulf

Some red snapper caught in the area of the oil spill have severe fin rot, particularly on their anal fins. A healthy fish would be able to fight off such infections, scientists say. They suspect that...

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Many Hit by Spill Now Feel Caught in Claim Process

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – By October, Tim Nguyen found that his work in a Mississippi shipyard was no longer paying the bills. His hours had been cut back, part of the general ebb of work along the Gulf...

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Oil Spill Anniversary Coverage: One Notable Exception to the “We Dodged a...

With the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill upon us, we're seeing a torrent of "follow-up" and "one-year review" stories on the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history. I've been...

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ANOTHER SPILL CASUALTY? Downtown FWB legend Staff’s may close its doors after...

FORT WALTON BEACH – Staff’s Restaurant has been a fixture downtown for nearly 100 years. These days it doesn’t look like it will make it to its centennial. Fifth generation family members blame the...

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Oil Spill Victim Threatens To Kill Everyone Inside BP Claims Office (VIDEO)

GULF SHORES, Alabama – An oil spill victim police who police said had his claim denied threatened to kill everyone inside a local claims office. Police aren't releasing the man's name because he's now...

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Oil still oozing along coastline amid dying marsh grasses

The state's struggle to deal with the remains of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be seen in miniature in a broken stand of roseau cane in Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, Wildlife &...

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1 year after the BP oil spill disaster: A day of remembrance dawns on the...

NEW ORLEANS – Relatives of the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are flying over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, back to the epicenter of the worst offshore oil spill in the...

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U.S. Earns Failing Grades for BP Oil Spill Response and Repair in Gulf of Mexico

For Immediate Release, April 20, 2011 Contact: Chris Pincetich, Ph.D., Sea Turtle Restoration Project, (415) 663-8590 x102, cell (530) 220-3687, chris@tirn.net Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration...

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BP sues maker of blowout preventer

BP is suing the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, alleging negligence that the oil giant says helped cause the disaster. The British company says...

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Flurry of legal claims filed on one-year anniversary of Gulf oil spill

A flurry of legal claims were filed on the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion Wednesday, as people harmed by the oil spill rushed to put their names in for a trial...

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3,200 Gulf Oil Wells Abandoned And Unprotected

Associated Press – More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters...

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A Year into the Nightmare: Three of the Most Urgent Issues Facing the Gulf Coast

Over the last year – as a plaintiff's attorney working with spill victims and as a new blogger covering the oil spill – I've become intimately familiar with a string of issues that stands in the way of...

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Asleep at the Wheel: Regulators Allow Thousands of Gulf Wells to Lie...

Here's another tiny indication that regulation of the oil industry isn't quite what it should be: The Associated Press reported this week that "more than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active...

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Research Paralysis: BP Makes a Mockery of Time-Sensitive Environmental Studies

As we move beyond the first-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, scientists are slamming BP for taking "far too long" in allocating tens of millions in research funding to assess environmental...

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Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico

It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from Louisiana’s...

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Video: Oil Waste and Debris Hidden All Over Grand Isle

This video, shot earlier this year, gives a glimpse of just how far we have to go before cleanup efforts are complete. And with each passing day, the chances fade that BP will ever fully restore our...

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Video From the Vault: The Corexit Experiment

WPI Chemical Engineer Marco Kaltofen speaks about the dangers of dispersants and explains his own experiment that found that dispersant use makes oil 35x more available in the water column. Stay tuned...

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Nuclear Plant Workers Dump Large Amount of Radioactive Tritium Directly into...

How much pollution can the world's rivers and oceans bear before they reach a tipping point and begin collapsing? The BP spill spewed 200 millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Japanese...

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EXCLUSIVE TEST RESULTS: Sample from Breton Islands Proves Highly Toxic...

If there was ever any doubt that BP's "cleanup" would be a monumental failure, we now have the scientific data to prove our allegations and to support our calls for additional cleanup efforts. In late...

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Video from the Vault: Beware the Air in the Gulf

Originally posted 8/16/2010.  

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In Wake of BP Disaster, Tone Deaf Louisiana Legislators Seek to Shield “Big...

Apparently we've learned absolutely nothing from the regulatory failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, at least not here in Louisiana. Against the backdrop of BP's 200-million-gallon...

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Big Oil Rules Washington: White House Opens Doors to More Production and...

The White House is playing Russian roulette with offshore drilling, putting the environment and American livelihoods in jeopardy. With just over a year gone by since BP's massive spill devastated the...

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Video from the Vault: BP’s Hiding More Oil

Originally posted 8/15/2010

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Flyover Video: Heavy-Handed Cleanup Operations Are Making Pieces of...

You can see giant cranes clawing and tearing away at the fragile shoreline, and huge floating "trash depots" that haul away tons of oil-soaked soil and marsh grasses and other debris from the spill....

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