Oil Spill Czar Being Slick?

By R.L. Nave
November 30, 2011

Jim Hood doesn't pull any punches when it comes to criticizing the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, the agency set up to help people who were hurt by the 2010 BP oil disaster, and its administrator, Kenneth Feinberg. Since early this…

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AG Hood Still Wants BP Claim Records

by R.L. Nave
Nov. 22, 2011

A dispute between Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and the administrator of BP's $20 billion oil-spill fund will be settled in state, not federal, court.

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Barbour Testifies at Oil Spill Hearing

June 2, 2011

While testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this morning, Gov. Haley Barbour said that despite the impact of the 2010 oil disaster on Mississippi's beaches and economy, he opposes the federal government's moratorium on off-shore drilling.

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“Show Me Your Papers”

The whole thing about Obama's birth certificate got on my nerves because I was sick of hearing about it ad nauseum, but in the video below, the speaker discusses the issue with an angle I haven't considered. Was there more to the controversy than meets the eye? Does race play…

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A Year After the Gulf Tragedy

by Marian Wang , ProPublica
April 18, 2011

When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses--not least of which were decades-old laws that…

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BP Claims Process Compromised?

by Adam Lynch
February 2, 2011

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood asked a federal judge last week to oversee Gulf Coast Claims Facility pay-outs to individuals the 2010 BP oil spill disaster injured.

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BP Claims Ignoring Fishing and Casino Workers?

by Adam Lynch
December 6, 2010

Despite the fact that Gov. Haley Barbour announced last week that the BP has paid $181 million in Mississippi oil spill claims as of Dec. 1, Mississippi Gulf Coast fishing industry representative Linda St. Martin claims the oil company…

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Mississippi Seeks BP Funds to Promote Gulf

November 9, 2010

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officials are negotiating with BP for money to promote Gulf seafood, The Sun Herald reported today.

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Officials Aware of Cement Flaws Before Spill

October 28, 2010

The cement fixture Halliburton officials used to seal the bottom of a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico did not meet industry standards, The New York Times reported Thursday.

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EPA Sued over Clean Water Act

by Adam Lynch
October 14, 2010

The Mississippi Sierra Club is joining a host of organizations to demand that the United States Environmental Protection Agency write new rules regulating the use of oil dispersants and adhere to current laws overseeing the use of potentially…

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Mabus Pushes for Gulf Funds

October 4, 2010

In U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus' Coast recovery plan released last week, he recommends that a large portion of BP's penalty money go to the Gulf Coast, The Sun Herald reported.

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BP Seals Well; Gulf Coast Still Struggles

September 20, 2010


Federal officials confirmed that BP has permanently sealed the well at the site of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion, The Sun Herald reported yesterday.

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Years to Go on BP Suit, Hood Says

by Adam Lynch
September 8, 2010

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said it could take years to assess the extent of harm the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused.

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BP Funded Microbe Study

by Marian Wang, ProPublica
August 25, 2010

Last week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how scientist have found a new microbe eating up BP's oil and how microbes have degraded the hydrocarbons so efficiently that…

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DMR Sample Finds Majority of Oysters Dead

September 2, 2010

When Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officials dredged a sample of oysters from the Pass Christian Harbor yesterday, approximately 80 to 90 percent of those oysters were dead, The Sun Herald reported yesterday.

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