Oil Spill Roundup
BP expects to have the well completely sealed by this weekend. The company announced the end of the Vessels of Opportunity program, in which local boaters
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The company announced the end of the Vessels of Opportunity program, in which local boaters and fishermen were employed to help contain the spill and clean up the oil, in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
The Department of Labor has provideda $2.5 million grant to help Western Panhandle residents cope with job losses.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is giving banks a breakon loan losses caused by the spill, and asking them to be lenient to customers in turn.
Florida Realtors are questioningwhether they got paid enough by the separate compensation vehicle Kenneth Feinberg set up for their industry.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has filed a lawsuitlooking to find out how and why the government initially low-balled its estimates of the size of the oil spill.****
ProPublica examinessome of the problems with Kenneth Feinberg’s oil spill claims process, and his plans for fixing them, including one fix called for recentlyby Gov. Charlie Crist and Chief Financial Alex Sink: hiring more claims adjusters.
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