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 »
Jeff Brady/NPR BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico disrupted business all along the coastline. Through the end of July 2014, the oil giant paid more than $13 billion to compensate people, businesses and communities affected. The company is disputing some of those claims in court battles that could drag on for years. But there’s Read More »
Supreme Court: BP Must Pay Claims During Appeal NEW ORLEANS June 9, 2014 (AP) By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court says BP must continue paying claims from a fund established after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while the company appeals terms of its settlement with some businesses. The justices on 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 »
In June 2013, the Coast Guard and BP declared the $14 billion post-Deepwater Horizon spill cleanup effort over in the states of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Official reports say the area is as close to pre-spill conditions as possible, although it is still far from clean. Three years after the spill, Coast Guard spokeswoman Lt. Read More »
Corexit is a chemical dispersant that was sprayed onto the crude oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Corexit is a known toxin and carries warnings to that effect on its instructions for use. Three years after the spill, both cleanup workers and residents of the Gulf region Read More »
Following the January 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, area residents and cleanup workers exposed to the highly toxic combination of crude oil and chemical dispersants are getting sick. A recent study released by the University Cancer and Diagnostic Center in Houston indicates that those exposed to the spill are exhibiting Read More »
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a collection of debilitating symptoms caused by exposure to a highly traumatic event. Most recognized cases of PTSD are related to wartime experiences or other personal trauma, such as rape, a house fire or witnessing a fatal accident. Many years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon spilled 200 million barrels of crude oil Read More »
As the years pass, there is now ample evidence that the damage from Corexit ― the dispersant sprayed onto the crude oil following the 2010 BP Oil Spill ― is not limited to only immediate and short-term effects. Corexit is now implicated in long-term and reproductive illnesses as well. In the year following the spill, Read More »
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an investigative report published in The Nation revealed that healthcare providers had stopped counting how many residents of the region were showing signs of illness caused by the spill, many of them infants and children. In matters of health and wellness, children Read More »
