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25 mar 2014 · WHITING, Ind. (AP) — Crews for oil giant BP worked Tuesday to clean up an undetermined amount of crude oil that spilled into Lake Michigan and affected about a half-mile section of shoreline near Chicago following a malfunction at BP’s northwestern Indiana refinery, officials said.
6 wrz 2024 · The BP spill sparked a huge amount of research into oil spills and their impacts. But 14 years on, what hope is there for better measures should another oil spill occur?
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, [6] [7] [8] [9] considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 ...
29 mar 2024 · The BP oil spill caused significant immediate and long-term ecological damage to the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. The spill resulted in extensive water pollution, with millions of barrels of crude oil contaminating marine habitats, including coral reefs, marshlands, and coastal wetlands.
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the full details of a $20.8 billion settlement resolving outstanding economic and environmental claims from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster are now available for public comment.
20 kwi 2020 · The BP oil spill of 2010 started suddenly, explosively, and with deadly force. But the response has stretched out for years and scientists say there’s still much more we need to learn.
17 kwi 2012 · BP today announced that it has reached definitive and fully documented agreements with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) to resolve the substantial majority of eligible private economic loss and medical claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill. The parties have filed for preliminary court approval of the two ...
