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  • Bhopal, BP Oil Spill: Two Disasters, Different Justice (Time.com)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 3:06am
    Time.com - A judgment in India may signal the unsatisfying end of the legal battle over Bhopal. It is a lesson the U.S. should heed as it tries to mete justice in the BP oil spill

  • Texas Governor Battles EPA Over Clean Air Act, Permits (Time.com)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 3:06am
    Time.com - Texas Governor Rick Perry isn't quarreling about the Gulf of Mexico, but he is taking on the EPA's role in the Clean Air Act

  • BP shareholders would back CEO more than chairman: report (Reuters)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 3:06am
    Reuters - BP Plc shareholders would prefer to sacrifice the company's Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg rather than the CEO over the ongoing oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Times reported in its Wednesday edition.

  • Gulf oil leak may be bigger than BP says (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 2:06am

    Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - While BP is capturing more oil from its blown-out well with every passing day, scientists on a team analyzing the flow said Tuesday that the amount of crude still escaping into the Gulf of Mexico may be considerably greater than what the government and the company have claimed.


  • Obama to return to Gulf next week for 2-day update (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 1:06am

    U.S. President Barack Obama (C) eats locally-caught shrimp with Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelles (2nd R) and convenience store owner Patti Gaspard (2nd L) and other locals during a meeting at Camardelle's bait shop, in Grand Isle, Louisiana, June 4, 2010. Obama travelled to the Louisiana gulf coast to further assess damage from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - President Barack Obama will return to the Gulf Coast next week for a two-day update on the Gulf oil spill, reacting to Americans' rising frustration with the government's response to the disaster.


  • Palin to Obama on oil companies: 'Give me a call' (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 1:06am

    FILE - In this Tuesday, March 18, 2008 picture shows Gov. Sarah Palin, left, with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in the governor's mansion in Juneau, Alaska. Palin has endorsed a challenger to incumbent Murkowski in the state's Republican primary in August 2010. Palin on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 issued her support for Fairbanks lawyer Joe Miller on her Facebook page. (AP Photo/Chris Miller)AP - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama's acknowledgment that he hasn't directly spoken to BP's chief executive shows it "bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office."


  • Judge: Cattle cannot muddy Ore. steelhead streams (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 1:06am
    AP - A federal judge has ruled that grazing on public land in the Malheur National Forest has led to degradation of steelhead streams that the U.S. Forest Service failed to protect.

  • Some oil spill events from Tuesday, June 8, 2010 (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 1:06am
    AP - A summary of events on Tuesday, June 8, Day 49 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well.

  • BP exec strikes optimistic note on oil timeline (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 1:06am
    AP - A top BP executive says the company hopes to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking from the Gulf floor soon.

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  • Obama tells seniors health bill will work for them (AP)

    Date Posted: 09 Jun 2010 - 12:06am

    President Barack Obama greets members of the audience after a town hall meeting on the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at the Holiday Park Multipurpose Senior Center in Wheaton, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, launching a defense of his presidency's biggest accomplishment as the election season gets under way and the Gulf oil spill dominates news.


  • GOP bid to stop EPA ruling faces White House veto (AP)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm
    AP - The White House on Tuesday raised the stakes on the Senate's first major climate change vote of the year, threatening to veto a Republican-led effort to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from carrying out regulations controlling greenhouse gases.

  • Oil spill dominates week in traditional media, while Israeli flotilla raid was leading story online (The Newsroom)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm
    The Newsroom - For the fourth consecutive week, the Gulf oil spill ranked as the biggest news story in the U.S. media.

  • BP: Fishermen getting bulk of compensation checks (AP)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm
    AP - BP PLC says 90 percent of the compensation checks it has issued so far have gone to fishermen.

  • BP to give revenue from spilled oil to wildlife fund (McClatchy Newspapers)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm
    McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Money from any oil collected and sold from BP's runaway oil well will go toward a fund that helps restore and improve wildlife habitat in the four states most damaged by what is now the nation's largest ever oil spill.

  • Lawmaker probes oil rig staffing before spill (Reuters)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm
    Reuters - A congressional committee has asked the operator of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to clarify staffing logs that suggest an absence of key personnel on board prior to the explosion that triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

  • Snakes may be in decline worldwide: study (AFP)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 11:06pm

    Distinct populations of snake species on three continents have crashed over the last decade, raising fears that the reptiles may be in global decline, according to a study published Wednesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Joerg Koch)AFP - Distinct populations of snake species on three continents have crashed over the last decade, raising fears that the reptiles may be in global decline, according to a study published Wednesday.


  • Interior clarifies rules on shallow drilling (AP)

    Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010 - 10:06pm
    AP - The Interior Department has issued new rules intended to clarify steps that oil and gas companies must complete before drilling wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

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