NEW ORLEANS — BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday. But lawyers for the London-based ...

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NEW ORLEANS — A former Halliburton employee was charged Thursday with destroying evidence following BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Anthony Badalamenti, who had been the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services Inc., was charged in ...

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NEW ORLEANS — BP is trying to persuade a federal appeals court that it should throw out a judge’s approval of the company’s multibillion-dollar settlement with Gulf Coast residents and businesses. Last year, BP PLC joined plaintiffs’ attorneys in urging ...

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NEW ORLEANS — A former BP engineer claims newly disclosed transcripts show “serious, recurring defects” in the grand jury proceedings that led to his indictment on charges he deleted text messages and voicemails about the company’s response to its 2010 ...

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NEW ORLEANS — An attorney who was fired by the court-supervised administrator of BP’s settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents is demanding to be reinstated with back pay. In a letter to claims administrator Patrick Juneau last Friday, Christine ...

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NEW ORLEANS — A lawyer working for the administrator overseeing a multibillion-dollar settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf has resigned after being accused of misconduct. Nick Gagliano is a spokesman for court-appointed administrator Patrick Juneau. He ...

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NEW ORLEANS — BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest danger, an expert witness for people and ...

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NEW ORLEANS — BP bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico because it cut corners and put profits ahead of safety, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening of ...

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FREDERICK — A landmark solar panel plant in Frederick is being dismantled. The Frederick News-Post reports that demolition began Friday of the former BP Solar plant along Interstate 70. Owner Bristol Capital Corp. says the site will become a business ...

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NEW ORLEANS — The Obama administration didn’t violate an order by a judge who struck down its temporary moratorium on deep water drilling after BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal appeals court has ruled. A ...

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