TWI has been following the Gulf oil spill claims process for months now. Though things seem to be improving at the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, frustration still abounds, as I reported this morning.
This is Zade Marcrie’s story. Marcrie owns a fishing charter business in Little Sarasota Bay, Fla. More…
The Obama administration sent BP and other parties deemed responsible for the Gulf oil spill (Transocean, Andarko) a $62.6 million bill for the cleanup effort yesterday. It’s the seventh bill BP and the other companies have received so far. Including the most recent bill, the companies have been charged a total More…
ProPublica reported yesterday that claimants are “struggling to get basic information” about the status of their claims:
Dozens of claimants have told ProPublica they are having trouble getting information about their submissions, and applicants say that the claims agents they speak to on the telephone and in field offices
The Obama administration announced today it is lifting the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave few details about how soon drilling would resume in the Gulf.
Salazar said he believes More…
Responding to polls that suggested the American people believed the federal government was not adequately responding to the oil spill, President Obama announced in May that he would triple oil spill response resources. That decision, a draft report from the national oil spill commission says, may have actually hindered More…
The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report released today by the national oil spill commission says.
According to the report, which was released in conjunction with three More…
A draft report released today by the national oil spill commission provides new details on a much-criticized August assessment by the Obama administration of the “fate of oil” from the Gulf oil spill. While much of the information in today’s report has already come out in press accounts, the More…
Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, announced the latest change today to the way he distributes money to victims of the spill.
Feinberg said he will no longer determine the validity of claims based on a claimant’s geographic proximity to the oil spill. More…
Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker story on the demise of the Senate climate bill makes clear that the Obama administration did not take seriously the oil spill risk associated with expanded offshore drilling.
The administration announced in March that it would expand offshore drilling — an effort to win support More…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a speech today, announced two new offshore drilling safety rules.
“Under these new rules, operators will need to comply with tougher requirements for everything from well design and cementing practices to blowout preventers and employee training,” Salazar said. “They will also need to develop More…
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