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by Adam Freedman Todays topic: The Gulf oil spill--who pays? And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. In fact, we b
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, the chief executive officer of BP faced hours of intense questioning at a House of Representatives
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens spoke at the National Press Club in Washington Monday and called on both presidential candidates to come up with a plan to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Pickens has spent millions of dollars on national televisio
Opposition to offshore drilling grows even though oil slick is still far from Florida Brian Wagner | Key Largo, Florida 14 May 2010 The gulf oil spill is still hundreds of kilometers from Florida, but local businesses worry about the impact it could
This week, the British oil company BP issued a controversial report on the cause of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four months ago. Regardless of who was at fault, the release of an estimated four million barrels of oil had a major envir
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico seven years ago showed just how hard it is to combat a massive oil spill. Cleaning oil from water is a challenge, especially on the open sea. Now the federal government is backing research on
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British oil giant BP says it made nearly $40 billion in profits last year even as it prepares for the opening of a massive trial later this month about damages that resulted from the company's 2010 oil rig explosion off the southern U.S. coastline. W
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McAnespy brothers fear their way of life will not return Jeff Swicord | Port Sulphur, Louisiana 04 May 2010 Louis McAnespy is a third-generation commercial fishermen from Louisiana who fears he will lose his livelihood due to the fishing ban imposed
By Nathan Morley Nicosia 16 August 2007 Cyprus appears headed for a showdown with Turkey over Nicosia's plans to begin oil and gas exploration in the east Mediterranean. Nathan Morley reports for VOA from Nicosia that Cyprus wants to issue exploratio
BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Penglai 19-3 oilfield, which experienced a severe oil leak in 2011, has been given official permission to resume operations, according to the State Oceanic Administration (SOA). The SOA said in a Saturday statement th