July 12, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP has long maintained that it will pay all "legitimate" claims for damage caused by the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But company data shows that while it has written checks for roughly half of the overall claims it has received -- most of which address property damage and the loss of income -- it has not made payments on any of the more than 1,100 claims that have been filed for damages caused by "bodily injury."
July 9, 2010 -
The three-judge panel that rejected the Obama administration's effort to enforce a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has extensive ties to the oil and gas industry, according to a report from a judicial watchdog group.
July 9, 2010 -
Date on which the U.S. Coast Guard established a "safety zone" around oil cleanup operations and booms in the Gulf: 6/30/2010 Size of the safety zone the Coast Guard originally considered: 300 feet Size of the safety zone it ultimately established: 65 feet
July 8, 2010 -
When a Tennessee TV station aired a report last month on mysterious damage afflicting crops in an area of the mid-South, it set
July 8, 2010 -
By Arthur Fox, Labor Notes The U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June knocked down 600 decisions by the National Labor Relations Board on the grounds that only two NLRB members lacked the authority needed to issue binding decisions. While pulling the rug out from under 600 decisions may seem cataclysmic, the likelihood is that the NLRB, now up to its full complement of five members, will quickly re-issue the decisions given that they were, for