Read This Dramatic Account Of BP Well Blowout
In one of the most detailed accounts of the explosion on board the Deepwater Horizon oil rig earlier this year, New York Times reporters David Barstow, David Rohde, Stephanie Saul and Ian Urbina tell...
View ArticleUT and MIT Forge Partnership To Study Risky Energy Exploration
To feed its energy demands, the United States is looking for energy in increasingly far-flung environments such as: Ultra-deep offshore oil wells, the Arctic, shale rock formations 20,000 feet...
View ArticleCompanies Investigate Oil Sheen Off Gulf of Mexico
The Associated Press is reporting the investigation into an oil sheen that was spotted off the Gulf of Mexico last week. Various oil companies, including BP, are trying to figure out where the sheen...
View ArticleTop Morning Stories August 31, 2011
Williamson County Approves Budget, Holds Taxes SteadyWilliamson County Commissioners approved the county's 2011-2012 budget yesterday. The nearly $127 million budget keeps property taxes about the same...
View ArticleBP To Pay Texas $50 Million For 2005 Refinery Blast
BP has agreed to pay $50 million in civil penalties to the state for an explosion six years ago at its refinery in Texas City. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott charged BP with violating state air...
View ArticleBP Loses Two Rulings on Spill Suits
A federal judge has dealt oil giant BP a pair of setbacks in its efforts to shield itself from billions of dollars in damage claims related to last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Today, a judge...
View ArticleBP Seeks To Improve Image With Ad Campaign on Gulf Cleanup
Now that BP is resuming oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, the energy giant is looking to revive its image among those who remember the tragic Deepwater Horizon leak that spilled almost 5 million...
View ArticleCriminal Charges Possible Against BP Engineers For Gulf Oil Spill
"U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP PLC employees stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, which killed 11 workers and caused the worst...
View ArticleGovernment Files First Criminal Charges In BP Oil Spill
"The first criminal charges in connection with the BP oil spill have been filed against a former BP engineer named Kurt Mix," NPR's Carrie Johnson reports exclusively.Carrie just told our Newscast unit...
View ArticleAM Update: West Nile in Travis Co., Barton Springs Reopens, Oil Drilling...
Local West Nile Virus Case ConfirmedThe Texas Department of State Health Services confirms there have been 32 cases of West Nile neuroinvasive disease in Texas so far this year. One case has been...
View ArticleBP Pleads Guilty, Pays Record Fine in Gulf Oil Spill Criminal Case
Update at 11:30 a.m. ET: Oil giant BP has agreed to plead guilty to criminal misconduct related to the 2010 Gulf Oil spill and will pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties, the company just...
View ArticleEPA Temporarily Halts New Federal Contracts for BP
Citing a "lack of business integrity," the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was temporarily suspending the oil giant BP from entering into new contracts with the federal government.In a...
View ArticleTransocean to Pay $1.4 Billion in Gulf Oil Spill Settlement
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig where 11 men died in April 2010, has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties to resolve Justice Department allegations over its...
View ArticleRead This Dramatic Account Of BP Well Blowout
In one of the most detailed accounts of the explosion on board the Deepwater Horizon oil rig earlier this year, New York Times reporters David Barstow, David Rohde, Stephanie Saul and Ian Urbina tell...
View ArticleUT and MIT Forge Partnership To Study Risky Energy Exploration
To feed its energy demands, the United States is looking for energy in increasingly far-flung environments such as: Ultra-deep offshore oil wells, the Arctic, shale rock formations 20,000 feet...
View ArticleCompanies Investigate Oil Sheen Off Gulf of Mexico
The Associated Press is reporting the investigation into an oil sheen that was spotted off the Gulf of Mexico last week. Various oil companies, including BP, are trying to figure out where the sheen...
View ArticleTop Morning Stories August 31, 2011
Williamson County Approves Budget, Holds Taxes SteadyWilliamson County Commissioners approved the county's 2011-2012 budget yesterday. The nearly $127 million budget keeps property taxes about the same...
View ArticleBP To Pay Texas $50 Million For 2005 Refinery Blast
BP has agreed to pay $50 million in civil penalties to the state for an explosion six years ago at its refinery in Texas City. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott charged BP with violating state air...
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