How much did BP pay in compensation? The terms of the Medical Class Action Settlement with BP Oil stipulate that cleanup workers and residents of coastal Zones A and B may obtain compensation for acute and chronic conditions that they have suffered as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster and subsequent cleanup efforts. Read More »
David Hammer, WWL-TV, New Orleans District Judge Carl Barbier, who initially backed BP’s reading of the settlement, but now is reconsidering and realizing that the current interpretation might relegate most of the class members to just what the settlement was supposed to avoid — years of costly litigation. NEW ORLEANS — Mark Mead and two Read More »
A new study has found that oil from the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico is impairing swimming in one of the ocean’s fastest fish. A key to unravelling how much damage the BP oil spill caused to sea life four years ago may be found in a tiny fish treadmill at the University Read More »
Not all funds awarded in the medical settlement with BP Oil are going directly to the victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that claimed 11 lives and affected hundreds of thousands of people. Part of the settlement was a $105 million initiative, the Gulf Coast Regional Health Outreach Program, designed to strengthen communities in Read More »
A recent Newsweek article by Mark Hertsgaard has provided an extremely gruesome, yet accurate description of BP Oil’s massive cover-up and the health problems suffered by cleanup workers and residents of the Gulf Region following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Here are some highlights of that article: Mopping floors, doing dishes and coughing up Read More »
The largest study of oil workers in history is currently being conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a division of the National Institutes of Health. In 2011, the NIEHS began enrolling individuals who were hired by BP Oil in 2010 for cleanup efforts following the massive oil spill caused by the Read More »
Many years after the BP Gulf oil spill (also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill), the full magnitude of the environmental, economic and human health effects of this major disaster remain unknown. What we do know is the BP oil spill clean up workers and the shoreline residents of the Gulf coast are sick Read More »