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Pentagon buys $82 million a month in fuel from BP, despite spill
Defense Department says it has $980 million in contracts with BP for current fiscal year; Oil giant was largest provider of fuel to Pentagon in the world in 2009 The organization charged with helping BP plug and clean up a leaking oil drill hole in the Gulf is also providing…
Oil still leaking after BP caps oil pipe
BP reported some oil was flowing up a pipe Friday from a cap it wrestled onto its broken Gulf of Mexico well but crude still spewed and it was unclear how much could be captured in the latest bid to tame the nation’s worst oil spill. President Barack Obama was…
BP CEO now says it will take two days to judge success of ‘top kill’
BP CEO Tony Hayward told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that it could be another 2 days before he knows if the “top kill” process worked. BP, which owns the well and is the largest oil and gas producer in the United States, began injecting mud into the well on Wednesday afternoon…
BP finally releases oil spill video, but lies about delay
Experts say criminal charges ‘just a matter of time.’ BP officials finally made an underwater video of its broken well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, after being pressured to do so by media outlets and the White House, and then claiming they hadn’t received requests for the footage.…
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