Volunteer vessels at BP rig were “floating militia,” need more coordination

By Aaron Mehta

One of the many lessons learned from the BP disaster is to better coordinate responses by private boats that hurry to an offshore rig explos

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"… tained a series of Coast Guard logs, which showed Coast Guard estimates of oil spills were much higher than the 1,000 barrels a day initially reported and that …"

"… past four months would lead to better, more streamlined response to major oil spills. “It would be adding a crime to a crime if we didn’t learn from this, …"

Training exercises showed gaps in government preparedness before BP oil spill

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta

Over the last eight years, the U.S. government has conducted four major drills to prepare for a massive oil spill, the results of which fore

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"… emental improvements, to steady progress in our capabilities to respond to oil spills in the water.” …"

Oil spill cleanup fund is running out of money

By Laurel Adams

Oil spill damages fund, with a $1 billion cap, is nearly tapped out
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Internal e-mails suggest doctoring of oil spill information by White House

By Laurel Adams

The White House may have ignored expert advice from government officials and pressured scientists to make changes in a report about the BP o

After oil spill cleanup, mystery surrounds oil remaining in Gulf

By Laurel Adams

More than eight months after the Deepwater Horizon spill, researchers are still unable to paint an accurate picture on the amount of oil tha

Coast Guard to revise self-assessment on oil spills

By Julie Vorman

The Coast Guard, which played a key role responding to the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, is developing a new way to measure how effecti

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"… Mexico, is developing a new way to measure how effectively it responds to oil spills beginning in 2011, according to a new watchdog report.In 2009, the Coast G …"

"… craft and boats on marine environmental protection work – which includes oil spills, ocean dumping, and preventing invasive species from entering U.S. waters …"

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Amid record profits, Exxon tries to shirk interest payments in Valdez oil spill case

By Marianne Lavelle

At the same time that ExxonMobil was racking up the largest quarterly profit of any U.S. company in history — $14.8 billion — the oil giant

Fishing and the offshore oil industry: A delicate imbalance

By Christiane Badgley

Fishing and the offshore oil industry in Ghana

Stealth PACs revealed

By The Center for Public Integrity

February 9, 2000 — The 2000 election cycle promised to be a high-stakes and free-spending election by anyone's measure. The balance of power

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"… which was recently given a $35 million federal fine in connection with 300 oil spills in six states. As a part of the settlement agreement with the Environment …"

The heat is on

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2000 — New York Republicans might be nominating Representative Rick Lazio instead of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the U.S.

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"… hers were recently given a $35 million federal fine in connection with 300 oil spills in six states. As a part of the settlement agreement with the Environment …"

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