The oil spill has crippled BP’s stock, as it hovered near a 14-year low of $30 on Wednesday morning. Which Washington faces have/had investments in the oil company?
Gulf of Mexico
Latest to Pile On BP? Oil Company Rivals
It’s no surprise that the ever-growing list of BP critics includes its industry rivals.
Oil Spill Estimates: Always Changing, Always Bad
How much oil is pumping into the Gulf? It’s been 53 days since the spill started, and we still don’t really know.
BP Gets @BPGlobalPR to Clear Up Its Twitter
@BPGlobalPR: Please verify that you’re an (un)official account.
Quotes: Oil Spill Gushing 100,000 Barrels a Day?
“In the data I’ve seen, there’s nothing inconsistent with BP’s worst case scenario,”
— IRA LIEFER, associate researcher at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of U.S. …
The Legal Side of the Oil Spill
Having trouble navigating the potential courtroom crunch surrounding the mess in the Gulf of Mexico? Roger Parloff has put together a primer for the myriad legal questions surrounding BP’s oil spill debacle. (via Fortune)
BP’s Oil Spill Cost: $1.25 Billion (So Far)
We’re better learning the cost behind BP CEO Tony Hayward’s Knute Rockne-style declaration that his company will “spend whatever it takes” to turn around the gushing black hole that is the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Mole: Is BP Misleading the Country?
Apparently there’s a mole working for BP – an inside source that has been talking to Mother Jones about how the public story of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf has routinely differed from the actual situation on the ground.
Sarah Palin’s Facebook Oil Spill Rant
That’s right you tree-hugging, lettuce munching environmentalists, the 15,000 barrels of oil sputzing into the Gulf of Mexico every day is your fault!
Is Oil in the Gulf a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?
Scientists remind us that not all the oil floating around in the Gulf is from an industrial accident. Just most of it.
What Oil Spill? Feds Approve New Well For Gulf of Mexico
Even as oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, federal regulators signed off on a new oil well to be drilled a mere 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
Feds Launch Criminal Probe into Gulf Oil Spill
The oil spill cleanup has a new force entering the cleanup conversation: the Justice Department.