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Felicity Carus answers the most frequently asked questions about the worst environmental disaster the United States has faced
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20 Aug 2010: Top oil firms may have retreated from the North Sea but Oil & Gas UK, the industry body, says £5bn a year is spent on offshore production and exploration projects -
19 Aug 2010:
NOAA's Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon rig is still in the Gulf environment while scientists identify 22-mile plume in ocean depths
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19 Aug 2010:
A 22-mile plume of droplets from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico undermines claim that oil has degraded
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18 Aug 2010:
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16 Aug 2010:
Announcement follows White House report that found BP received exemptions for its Gulf well based on decades-old data
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16 Aug 2010:
Blackrock, HSBC, Legal and General, Fidelity and F&C are among Cairn's largest investors who are set to benefit from the eventual cash windfall from the sale
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17 Aug 2010:Simon Jenkins: From the BP leak to terror or ash clouds, politics has spurned its most precious responsibility: to react proportionately to danger
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8 Aug 2010:
It turns out Tony Hayward may be right: the Deepwater Horizon spill is destined to be just a drop in the media ocean
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3 Aug 2010:
Damian Carrington: Faced by the scale of this human, economic and ecological catastrophe, can the US – and the rest of the world – begin to wean itself off oil?
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1 Aug 2010:
David Mitchell: Tony Hayward's departure can't disguise the fact that the oil giant's motives are purely mercenary
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30 Jul 2010:
Alexander Chancellor: Against the odds, the BP chief executive has got his life back
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28 Jul 2010:
Editorial: Other companies would not just have racked up a multibillion-dollar loss, they would have suffered the corporate equivalent of a public lynching and gone under
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guardianeco: BP oil spill: US scientist retracts assurances over success of cleanup http://bit.ly/cCRpSw
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guardianeco: BP oil spill: scientists find giant plume of droplets 'missed' by official account http://bit.ly/btx43n
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BP_America: (Infographic) More than 3,000 vessels remain deployed for ongoing oil spill response in Gulf. More: http://bit.ly/9yMkQA
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