LONDON (Reuters) - A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's <BP.L> fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster.Full story
A woman has reached a lawsuit settlement with a south Mississippi city where she said police arrested her for protesting the BP oil spill then arrested her again in retaliation for suing. Full story
(Reuters) - Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. Full story
Mark Hertsgaard, contributor to The Daily Beast, talks with Rachel Maddow about the devastating health effects of Corexit, the oil dispersant used by BP in the Gulf to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on the workers and residents of the area.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tx., who made headlines for apologizing to BP after the gulf oil spill, now claims the Bible proves that climate change isn't real.
CNBC's Steve Liesman; and Christof Ruehl, BP chief economist, discuss what crude prices indicate about the broader economy, and the impact of developing domestic energy in the United States.
The National Wildlife Foundation’s Sara Gonzalez Rothi Kronenthal, Colorlines.com reporter Brentin Mock, Political Strategist L. Joy Williams, and The Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal discuss the BP civil trial for the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
As the State Department issued their draft report of the Keystone XL Pipeline impacts, the Melissa Harris-Perry panel looks at environmental hazards and the Gulf Coast.
A BP logo is seen at a petrol station in London May 15, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
BP logo is seen at a fuel station of British oil company BP in St. Petersburg, October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin speaks outside the BP headquarters in central London March 21, 2013. Russian state oil company Rosneft closed its deal to buy TNK-BP from UK-based BP and four tycoons on Thursday, releasing $40 billion cash to the sellers and becoming a bigger oil producer than Exxon Mobil. T
