Mississippi announces plans for $37.8M in oil spill money
Mississippi officials have outlined how they plan to spend this year’s $37.8 million installment of BP oil spill money, focusing largely on economic, environmental and transportation projects.
BP money funds road projects in area
When the Mississippi Legislature this week approved funding for 128 projects throughout the state, $1.75 million came to projects in Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties.
Mississippi Senate approves bill dividing $700M in oil spill damages
Mississippi senators late Tuesday approved a bill to divide up $700 million in oil spill damages, setting aside more than $100 million overall for special projects.
$87 million each for lead firms in 2010 oil spill litigation
A committee of attorneys involved in litigation arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has made its recommendation for dividing some $700 million in fees among 122 law firms involved in years of complex legal work.
House balks at Senate plan for oil spill damage account
Mississippi lawmakers may be unable to decide this year how to spend $750 million in oil spill damage payments, with sniping between House and Senate members after a bill died at a Tuesday deadline for action when the House Appropriations Committee didn’t bring it up.
Miss. Senate approves bill sending BP damages to coast
Mississippi senators want to create a new savings account channeling damage payments from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to projects on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
North Mississippi looks for a slice of the BP oil spill pie
Some Northeast Mississippi legislators are putting the brakes on plans to give three coastal counties all of the funds from the $750 million settlement with BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
Analysis: Lt. Gov. Reeves restarts discussion over spending BP money
Generally, there’s nothing better for a politician than spending “free” money — cash that arrived in the treasury without lawmakers having to vote to raise taxes on their constituents.
BP estimates cost of 2010 Gulf oil spill at $61.6B
Oil giant BP PLC has put a final price tag on what its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost the company, and it’s a hefty sum: $61.6 billion.
Judge: BP payouts to local entities to start soon for spill
A federal judge says BP will begin paying up to $1 billion in settlements to compensate local governments across the Gulf Coast for lost tax revenue and other economic damages they blame on the company’s 2010 oil spill.
BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened delicate marshes, BP has agreed to pay a record settlement to affected states in hopes of bringing an end to a legal drama that has cost the company billions.
Drilling begins 3 miles from epicenter of BP oil spill
Just 3 miles from the catastrophic BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a Louisiana company is seeking to unlock the same oil and natural gas that turned into a deadly disaster.
5 years after BP spill, drillers push into riskier depths
Five years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable.
Study: BP spill left big oily ‘bathtub ring’ on seafloor
The BP oil spill left an oily “bathub ring” on the sea floor that’s about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows.
Businesses won’t have to return BP spill payouts
BP wanted its money back — hundreds of millions of dollars of it — but a federal judge said Wednesday that the oil giant must stick by its agreement with the companies it compensated for business losses due to the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
Gulf of Mexico residents hail ruling against BP
Environmentalists, recreational fishermen and people who make their living on the Gulf of Mexico are hailing a federal judge’s ruling that could mean $18 billion in additional fines for BP over the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
Court: BP must pay Clean Water Act fines
The owners of the blown-out Macondo well cannot avoid federal fines for the 2010 oil spill by blaming another company’s failed equipment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Voice of the people: David Owen
Talented Rufus Ward indicated in his column in Sunday’s Dispatch that the British last fought the Battle of New Orleans on Jan. 8, 1815. I rarely question Rufus’ capabilities in the history category. However, here I must point out that there is currently being waged another battle of New Orleans with the British.
Jury ‘at a standstill’ in ex-BP engineer’s trial
A deadlocked jury will return for a third day of deliberations in the case against a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages to obstruct a probe of the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP executive defends spill response tactics
NEW ORLEANS — A BP executive who led the company’s efforts to halt its massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico testified Tuesday