The Environmental Protection Agency has slapped BP Plc with a temporary ban on new government contracts, telling the world the company showed a “lack of business integrity” after the nation’s largest oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, BP...
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Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, Louisiana.
BP’s Case for `Responsibility’ at EPA
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Updated at 10:12 am EDT As President Barack Obama was ready this morning to make a televised statement about Tropical Storm Isaac, the widespread, poorly organized storm soon to make landfall, perhaps as a low-grade Category One hurricane, along the...
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