Dolphin die-off Spurred by BP Oil Spill
lead veterinary pathologist for the study. Yet BP questioned whether other factors were to blame. "The data we have seen thus far, including the new study from NOAA, do not show that oil from the Deepwater Horizon accident caused an increase in dolphin mortality," said Geoff Morrell, BP's senior vice president for U.S. communications, in a statement. (Reporting by Letitia Stein; Editing by Marguerita Choy
Report: Faulty Blowout Preventer Contributed to BP Spill
4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. Rather than re-examine issues already covered by other probes, including those by the U.S. Coast Guard and a commission appointed by President Barack Obama, the CSB studied equipment and hazardous materials operations and safety management. BP spokesman Geoff Morrell said the core findings were consistent with other probes that said the disaster stemmed from multiple causes involving multiple parties. The CSB concluded that the blowout preventer (BOP) failed because miswired control systems would have prevented it from sealing the blown-out well. A
US Appeals Court, Says BP Bound by Gulf Spill Accord
decision is a setback for BP's effort to limit payments under a multi-billion dollar settlement over the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and rupture of BP's Macondo oil well. That disaster killed 11 people and triggered the largest U.S. offshore oil spill. Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman, said the company may appeal. BP had previously asked the full 5th Circuit to review a Jan. 10 decision by another three-judge panel that upheld the settlement itself. BP previously settled U.S. criminal proceedings over the spill, and has completed two phases of a three-part
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