Courts & Law

Shipowner Might Avoid Liability for Bridge Disaster Thanks to Big Oil Lobby

Katya Schwenk, Helen Santoro / The Lever Apr 2, 2024 The company responsible for the deadly bridge collapse plans to use “Titanic Law” to avoid paying for damages—after Big Oil lobbied to stop reforms. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was a Cover-Up, Not a Cleanup

Alison Rose Levy / Truthdig Feb 17, 2020 With his reelection at stake, Barack Obama made a series of decisions to control the disaster. It's clear now just how calamitous they were. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard of May Rival BP

Ilana Novick Oct 23, 2018 It’s been going on since 2004, with no end in sight. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Trump Scraps Policy Protecting Oceans, Great Lakes

JOHN FLESHER / The Associated Press Jun 22, 2018 The president revokes an order issued by President Barack Obama in 2010 following the largest oil spill in U.S. history—the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Deaths

Greg Palast / Truthdig Apr 19, 2015 Five years ago Monday, 11 men died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig -- despite Manning’s effort to save their lives Let me explainFive years ago Monday, 11 men died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—despite Manning’s effort to save their lives. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama Plans to Allow Drilling on America’s East Coast

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 29, 2015 The Obama administration put forth a five-year plan Tuesday that would allow oil and gas drilling in a giant area off the East Coast. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Greg Palast: BP Poisoned the Gulf to Make Money

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 13, 2014 Truthdig contributor and New York Times best-selling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast appeared on RT's "Breaking the Set" on Wednesday to discuss the "gross negligence" committed by BP and described in a federal judge's Findings of Fact on the circumstances that led to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 men and turned the Gulf of Mexico into a tub of toxic soup. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP and the Three Stooges Defense

Greg Palast / Truthdig Sep 11, 2014 Although US District Judge Carl Barbier found BP liable for “gross negligence” last week, some U media failed to mention that he let BP off the hook on punitive damages And that stuns me, given that the record seems to identify enough smoking guns to roast a sizable pigU District Judge Carl Barbier let BP off the hook on punitive damages last week, which stuns me, given that the record seems to identify enough smoking guns to roast a sizable pig . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: NATO, BP Accountability, Politics of Joan Rivers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 6, 2014 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss NATO's coalition amid a cease-fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels; the irony that the U.S. spies "on everybody, but we didn't know about ISIS"; a judge's ruling on BP's negligence in the Deepwater Horizon disaster; and the career of comedian Joan Rivers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ousted Drilling Chief Warns U.S. at Risk of Another Oil Spill

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 21, 2014 Four years after the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, the EPA has lifted a ban that excluded the company from new federal contracts. S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, who was director of the Minerals Management Service at the time and was forced out soon afterward, tells "Democracy Now!" another catastrophe is a real possibility. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lap Dancers, the CIA, Payoffs and BP’s Deepwater Horizon

Greg Palast / Truthdig Apr 18, 2014 Four years ago this Sunday, the Deepwater Horizon blowout incinerated 11 men and poisoned 600 miles of Gulf coastline. What political fairy dust allows BP to remain virtually immune from the consequences?Four years ago today, the Deepwater Horizon blowout incinerated 11 men and poisoned 600 miles of Gulf coastline. What political fairy dust allows BP to remain virtually immune from the consequences? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Death Came by Water, Then by Oil

Greg Palast / Truthdig Mar 28, 2014 It was Good Friday, 50 years ago on March 27, 1964, when an earthquake-spurred tsunami wiped out the Chugach village in Chenega, Alaska. Twenty-five years later, as villagers celebrated the rebuilding of their home, a wave of oil from the Exxon Valdez began to move their way.Fifty years ago a tsunami wiped out the Chugach village. Twenty-five years later, as villagers celebrated the rebuilding of their home, another kind of wave headed their way. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )