The Need to Punish Corporate Criminals

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2013 Halliburton's recent "punishment" after admitting that it destroyed evidence related to the 2010 BP oil spill is the very reason The Hill's Ronald Goldfarb says that the "legal fiction that corporations are entities that are distinct from the parties running them" makes for terrible public policy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Halliburton Admits Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 26, 2013 The American contractor that worked for BP on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig announced Thursday that it would plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 explosion that sparked the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Jun 12, 2013 A vast, globally important river basin in Canada five times the size of France is at great risk from a potential catastrophic oil spill from the mining of tar sands. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Exxon Lied About Oil Pipeline Rupture, Documents Show

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 3, 2013 According to newly released documents, Exxon Mobil--the world's most profitable corporation--knew that contamination from a tar sands crude oil spill in Arkansas this year was dangerous and yet, the company downplayed it anyway. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Nov 30, 2012 When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity" and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The sanction, however, has been years in the making. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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A Punishment BP Can’t Pay Off

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Apr 20, 2012 Two years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Judge Puts Deepwater Horizon Trial on Hold

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2012 U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who will ultimately put a price tag on the worst oil spill in American history if the many lawsuits against BP go to trial, has given the oil giant and its many, many plaintiffs another week to reach a settlement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Gulf Spill Evidence

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2011 Halliburton just seems to pop up wherever trouble can be found, such as the Bush White House (through Dick Cheney's chummy history with the company) and also in the ecopocalypse that was the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP Plans a Comeback in Gulf of Mexico

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2011 One might think that after the ecological apocalypse that British Petroleum visited upon the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding environs with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, BP might harbor a healthy sense of shame about returning to that scarred region. Yeah, no. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP Points to Thriving Tourism to Reduce Settlement Payments

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2011 Just over one year out from the BP oil spill that wreaked havoc up and down the Gulf Coast, the tourism industry there is so far having one of its best summers in years BP is latching on to the good news, using it to argue in a court filing recently (more) . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )