Corexit is a chemical dispersant which was used extensively during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, despite evidence that the chemical had harmful effects on sea life in the Gulf of Mexico, BP plans to use it in the case of a spill in the sensitive ecosystem of the Amazon Reef.
Clark has previously attacked climate change laws as an erosion of “sovereignty,” and defended BP in one of the worst environmental disaster cases in U.S. history.
United States President Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has previously represented British Petroleum (BP), to a top environmental and natural resource law position in the Department of Justice, the White House announced earlier this week. As a partner at lawfirm Kirkland & Ellis, Clark defended BP in the legal
An environmentalist attorney warned that despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster, ‘the federal government is rubber-stamping practices like fracking without doing any environmental review or notifying the public.’
MINNEAPOLIS --- The Obama administration has approved hundreds of fracking permits for underwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s also frequently allowed oil companies to sidestep the environmental review process. Even the most severe environmental disaster in the Gulf’s history couldn’t dissuade the government from issuing permits,
MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.
WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the
The study estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil coagulated on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico around the damaged Deepwater Horizons oil rig.
WASHINGTON -- The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows.
The study by David Valentine, the chief scientist on the federal damage assessment research ships, estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil
Oil giant’s rosy view of coast recovery from Deepwater Horizon met with pushback from Coast Guard, environmental group.
BP announced on Tuesday it was ending "active shoreline cleanup" from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people, spewed millions of gallons of oil, contaminated beaches and ecosystems, and unleashed ongoing threats to marine life. "Immediately following the Deepwater Horizon accident, BP committed to cleaning the shoreline and
Some 33,000 people, including Barisich, are participating in a massive federal study that aims to determine any short or possible long-term health effects related to the spill.
CHALMETTE, La. — When a BP oil well began gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, fisherman George Barisich used his boat to help clean up the millions of gallons that spewed in what would become the worst offshore spill in U.S. history. Like so many Gulf Coast residents who pitched in after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the
