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EPA Considers Cutting All Contracts With BP

Move would cost the company billions of dollars

(Newser) - News to cheer those who say the government has gone too easy on BP: The EPA is considering scrapping its federal contracts, a move that would cost the company billions, reports Pro Publica . It's far from a done deal, and any such action would depend on the results of the...

Frustration Oozes in Darkening Gulf

With no fix in sight, residents target BP, feds

(Newser) - Anger is oozing along the Gulf Coast along with the oil washing into delicate coastal wetlands, with residents questioning the federal government and others wondering how to clean up the monthlong mess that worsens each day. "It's difficult to clean up when you haven't stopped the source," says...

Criticizing BP Is 'Un-American': Rand Paul

Candidate faults Obama for remarks, makes more headlines

(Newser) - Rand Paul continued his campaign to get the public back on his side today with a rousing defense of ... BP? Appearing on Good Morning America to further clarify his civil rights comments , Paul criticized President Obama for demonizing the company behind the Gulf oil spill. "What I don't like...

BP Concedes 5,000-Barrel Estimate Too Low
 BP Concedes 
 5,000-Barrel 
 Estimate Too Low 
new live feed released
May 20, 2010 2:58 PM CDT

BP Concedes 5,000-Barrel Estimate Too Low

That's how much it's currently cleaning up per day

(Newser) - BP says it's now scooping up 5,000 barrels a day of gushing oil, so we must be in the clear right? After all, that's been the company's daily estimate all along. Alas, "it was always made clear that this was a ballpark estimate," said a BP official....

EPA to BP: Switch to Less Toxic Dispersant—Now

Company given 72 hours to make the switch

(Newser) - In a move that suggests the dispersants being dumped on the Gulf oil spill may not be so Earth-friendly, the EPA last night gave BP 24 hours to select a less toxic chemical and 72 hours to make the switch. The company, which has used 600,000 gallons on the...

BP Boss: Environment Will Be Fine
BP Boss: Environment
Will Be Fine
May 18, 2010 11:14 AM CDT

BP Boss: Environment Will Be Fine

Gulf spill cleanup 'textbook example' of emergency response

(Newser) - Tony Hayward is an optimist. The BP CEO believes his company's done a great job responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he tells Sky News . After bragging about a new piece of technology that's allowed BP to harvest thousands of gallons of oil from the leak,...

BP Siphoning 1/5 of Oil; Spill May Have Hit Major Current

Loop current would carry oil to Florida Keys and up coast

(Newser) - BP is now siphoning more than one-fifth of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, the company said this morning, as worries escalated that the ooze may have reached a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the...

Let's Nuke the Oil Spill&mdash;Literally

 Let's Nuke the Oil 
 Spill—Literally 
OPINION
May 17, 2010 7:36 AM CDT

Let's Nuke the Oil Spill—Literally

Because BP's self-serving repair attempts are laughable

(Newser) - Nearly a month into the BP oil spill disaster, it's time to get serious. It's time to blow the well shut with a nuclear weapon, argues nuclear policy scholar Christopher Brownfield—seriously. So far, BP's been trying to clumsily fix the well rather than destroy it, most recently using a...

Gulf States to BP: You Foot Our Tourism Ad Bill

The $20B Gulf Coast industry worried about summer

(Newser) - The environment and the fishing industry aren't the only ones losing big because of the Gulf oil spill: The $20 billion Gulf Coast tourism industry fears that the constant doom-and-gloom media coverage will decimate summer tourism in the region. That's why Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama are calling for BP to...

BP Pipe Siphons Some Oil, Dislodges
 BP Pipe Siphons 
 Some Oil, Dislodges 
UPDATED
May 16, 2010 12:40 PM CDT

BP Pipe Siphons Some Oil, Dislodges

Engineers trying to get pipe to work again

(Newser) - BP says engineers trying to stop an oil leak deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico used a mile-long tube to funnel some oil to the surface, but that it became dislodged. In a news release, BP says it halted the process early today, but that some of the oil and...

BP: The Tube Is In


 BP: The Tube Is In 
May 16, 2010 11:19 AM CDT

BP: The Tube Is In

Oil giant hopes to siphon large part of gushing oil

(Newser) - BP has successfully inserted a pipe into the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well, a source confirmed to the Wall Street Journal , raising hopes that a majority of the leak could be siphoned up to a ship on the surface. A BP spokesman declined comment.

BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow
 BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow  
May 16, 2010 6:33 AM CDT

BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow

But company's still jiggering its latest experiment

(Newser) - BP hit a snag yesterday in its effort to reduce the amount of oil blasting from the remains of a broken rig into the Gulf of Mexico. BP said it was confident that its mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flow, but engineers failed to connect two pieces...

Huge Oil Plumes Found Deep Under Water

It's more evidence that the spill is bigger than estimates

(Newser) - Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico tell the New York Times they're seeing a "shocking amount of oil" deep under the surface. They've located several huge plumes, the largest of which is 10 miles long and 3 miles wide, lending more weight to the speculation that the spill...

White House Wants BP to Promise It'll Pay

Even if costs exceed $75 million cap

(Newser) - The White House's latest message to BP is a simple one: Talk is cheap, so you better pay up in the Gulf. Company officials have said a few times publicly that they were willing to cover all costs related to the cleanup, even if they exceed the $75 million liability...

Hey, BP: Supertankers Could Clean Up Spill

 Hey, BP: Supertankers 
 Could Clean Up Spill 
It worked for Saudis
May 15, 2010 1:15 PM CDT

Hey, BP: Supertankers Could Clean Up Spill

They suck up vast quantities of polluted water; oil is filtered out in port

(Newser) - A former Shell Oil president has some advice for BP: Use supertankers to suck up the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico. He says the Saudis used it in a hush-hush cleanup project after a spill in the early '90s dumped hundreds of millions of gallons. The Saudis "figured...

BP Threading Tube in Latest Bid to Plug Leak

It's the latest solution of the day

(Newser) - At first, BP tried to stop the oil rushing into the Gulf of Mexico by flipping a blowout preventer switch. A week ago, they attempted to capture the leak with a 100-ton box. The latest experiment? Trying to guide a skinny, mile-long tube into the gusher. BP technicians were gingerly...

Much of Spilled Oil Already Gone

Around 35% probably evaporated, model suggests

(Newser) - The Deepwater Horizon disaster has led to the release of million of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but figuring out where it all is has proven kind of hard. Roughly 4.6 million gallons seem to have pooled into a shape-shifting blob off the coast of Louisiana,...

Obama Slams Oil Spill Blame Game as 'Ridiculous Spectacle'

President has tough talk about the Gulf spill

(Newser) - President Obama ripped into the companies involved in the Gulf oil spill today, deriding their finger-pointing before Congress as a "ridiculous spectacle." He also promised to end a cozy relationship that has existed between federal regulators and companies drilling offshore for oil and gas.

Congress Wants Answers on Low Oil Leak Estimates

Experts say it's much higher than 5,000 barrels per day

(Newser) - News that way more oil than previously reported seems to be gushing out of the burst well in the Gulf of Mexico has caught the attention of Congress. Edward Markey, who chairs a House subcommittee on energy, says he'll ask BP and federal agencies to explain their estimates, reports CNN...

Spill Up to 5 Times Bigger Than Gov't Says: Scientists

And they reject BP claim that leak can't be measured

(Newser) - Two weeks ago, government experts estimated that 5,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. That figure—5 times BP's initial estimate—was calculated hastily by government agencies using the wrong method, scientists charge. Some experts, especially after a video of the leak was...

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