Posts Tagged ‘BP’

ProPublica Blog: Government and BP Unresponsive on Requests for Data on Sick Cleanup Workers

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

By Marian Wang

Getting statistics on worker illness related to the Gulf oil spill is proving to be difficult, as federal agencies continually refer requests either to another federal agency or to BP.

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A Glimpse of How the Planet Dies Right Before Our Eyes?

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf  – New York Times

From Front Page of Huffington Post

Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given. — Full story, NY Times, here. Huffington Post story here.