Today, the Multi-District Litigation Panel in Boise, Idaho announced that the Oil Spill Litigation will be tried in New Orleans, Louisiana and presided over by Judge Carl J. Barbier. With more than 12 years on...

Workers from both Transocean and BP testified in a New Orleans hearing before the U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement concerning the Deepwater Horizon's failed safety systems. From the...

Over the past several weeks, BP has deliberately put claims aside that don't specifically fall under the protection of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Though BP has promised to pay all "legitimate" claims,...

WAVELAND, MS (WLOX) - State officials have closed the beach and parts of Beach Boulevard in Waveland due to huge amounts of tar balls washing up on the shore and on the road. The Mississippi...

By GEOFF PENDER - glpender@sunherald.com Wednesday, Jul. 07, 2010 LONG BEACH — Cleanup crews were working Wednesday to clean up fairly large pieces of tar washing ashore in Long Beach and eastern Pass Christian. “There is oil...

by Michelle Greenhalgh Food Safety News July 1, 2010 URL: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/07/will-oil-eating-bacteria-plague-the-gulf/ As though the Gulf Coast states don't have enough to worry about with crude oil spewing into the water at an estimated rate of 5,000...

By Ismael Estrada July 7, 2010 URL: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/07/field-report-the-oysters-are-dead/ Vlaho Mjehovich has been an oysterman in these Gulf waters for 21 years. His father was one here, as was his grandfather. Â It's what this family...

RestoreTheGulf.gov will serve as a centralized hub for information about the Deepwater Horizon disaster response and recovery. By Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek July 8, 2010 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702714 The Obama administration has launched a new website...