Whistleblower sues over firing during BP gulf oil spill cleanup

BP allegedly fired a worker for refusing to change data so that the company could claim the gulf oil spill cleanup was over and begin the restoration phase of the operation. The worker claimed a BP vice president said the announcement that the cleanup was over would provide a needed boost for BP stock prices. [...]

Report cites lack of transparency in operation to set oil slick on fire during Gulf oil spill

A toxicologist working for a client sickened by toxic compounds used in the cleanup released a report charging that the operation to set the oil slick on fire during the gulf oil spill was characterized by secrecy. The report said that the client employed to work on cleanup reported that airplanes flying overhead dropped dispersants [...]

Halliburton claims British Petroleum defamed them in report on Gulf oil spill

Halliburton is not willing to sit back while a report from British Petroleum pins the blame for the Gulf oil spill on them with a claim that the company did a faulty cement job on the Deepwater Horizon well. Halliburton is suing BP in a Texas court calling the report “self serving” with serious omissions [...]

News rater, anti-Palin group win government contracts

The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions during the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration. September 15, 2010 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The administration was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. [...]

British Petroleum caught doctoring oil spill photos

BP admits it ‘Photoshopped’ official images as oil spill ‘cut and paste’ row escalates British Petroleum caught doctoring oil spill photos To try to recoup some vestige of public confidence, BP has ordered their staff to stop photoshopping images of the gulf of Mexico oil spill. db London Telegraph July 22, 2010 By Andrew Hough [...]

Louisiana Legislature Passes Resolution to Get BP to Implement Transparency Agenda

A few weeks ago the Louisiana Legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution 208 and  requested BP a transparency agenda related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -SMD BP Oil Spill News July 7, 2010 By Bryan Rahija Here’s an interesting piece of legislation that escaped our notice until our friend David Marcello, Adjunct [...]

BP has steady sales at Defense Department despite U.S. scrutiny

BP is currently one of the biggest suppliers of fuel and other petroleum products to the U.S. Defense Department, despite scrutiny over the company’s potential violations of federal and state laws. -SMD The Washington Post BP Oil Disaster News July 5, 2010 By  R. Jeffrey Smith The Defense Department has kept up its immense purchases [...]

Reporter claims public information privatized in Gulf oil spill

A New York Times reporter says that the U.S. government has relinquished control of information to BP who is blocking its free flow to protect its bottom line. -db The New York Times Commentary June 13, 2010 By David Carr The three journalists crept along in a boat captained by James Ledet in a bayou [...]

Charges surface that British Petroleum is limiting media access to gulf oil spill

Amid several instances in which the media has been limited in covering the gulf oil spill, authorities say they are coping as best they can with the floods of reporters. They deny that BP is calling the shots and say they are allowing access to the story with the constraints of safety and protecting the [...]

Media claims BP blocking access to gulf oil slick

News photographers are saying that government officials working with British Petroleum are denying them access to both the oil disaster area and the beaches and marches affected by the spreading oil. -db PR Watch.org May 27, 2010 News photographers are saying that their efforts to document the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

British Petroleum not divulging test results on worker safety in gulf oil spill

Critics are saying that the federal government is not doing enough to get BP to improve monitoring in the gulf oil spill and to release test results on worker exposure to evaporating oil and burning oil. -db McClatchy Newspapers Commentary May 18, 2010 By Marisa Taylor and Renee Schoof WASHINGTON, D.C. — BP, the company [...]