2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill News

Judge Rules Against BP in Recovery of Spill Damage Overpayments

BP Plc can’t recover hundreds of millions of dollars it claims to have overpaid some victims for economic losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge said. After the court revised the method for calculating such …

Immediate Medical Payments to be Requested by BP Spill Victims

All oil-spill cleanup workers injured during BP Plc’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster should get paid medical compensation now instead of being forced to sue for help, victims’ lawyers will tell a U.S. judge at a hearing that began today …

Oil Spill Research Grant Program Up and Running

The National Academy of Sciences expects to start taking applications this fall for the $500 million assigned to the 30-year research program set up as a result of criminal settlements from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of …

BP Seeks Access to $750M Transocean Spill Insurance

BP Plc, which already has paid more than $28 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, seeks to get a $750 million chunk of that back by convincing a Texas court that a missing comma may give the …

4 Years After BP Spill, Florida Beach Monitors Remain

Four years after the massive 2010 BP oil spill, monitors from Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection continue to find thousands of tar balls on beaches in the western Panhandle. The Pensacola News Journal reports that the two remaining oil spill …

BP Sends Thousands of Emails Requesting Lawsuit Be Dropped

Houston and Harris County officials have been flooded with thousands of emails from BP and its employees over the past few weeks encouraging them to drop a lawsuit over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Some have speculated the emails …

Former BP Engineer’s Retrial Postponed Again

The August retrial of a former BP engineer accused of obstructing justice in an investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been postponed while an appeals court decides whether a judge was right to throw out his …

Feds Appeal Granting New Trial to Ex-BP Engineer

Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge’s decision to grant a new trial to a former BP engineer convicted of obstructing justice in an investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The notice of appeal in the case of …

Ex-BP Executive Can Be Tried on Obstruction Charge

A former BP executive can be tried on a charge that he obstructed a congressional investigation into the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a federal appeals court in New Orleans said in a ruling posted Monday. The case involves allegations that …

BP Seeks Restitution for Erroneous Gulf Oil Spill Payments

BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a “vast number” of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico …