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Judge Allows Gulf Oil Spill Settlement to Proceed
May 2, 2102 (By Associated Press) -NEW ORLEANS—A federal judge on Wednesday preliminarily approved a proposed class-action settlement that would resolve billions of dollars in claims againstBPBP.LN+0....
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Statement by Carol Dover, President/CEO, Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Two-Year Anniversary
April 20, 2012- “On the two-year anniversary of this devastating personal, environmental and economic catastrophe, we remember the 11 individuals who perished in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosio...
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Track your fish dinner
March 14, 2012 (Written By: Alcides Segui, My Fox Tampa)ST. PETE BEACH - Hundreds of pounds of tagged snapper and grouper sit on ice waiting to be filleted. The Gulf Wild Program is slowly becoming po...
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Senate passes measure to send BP fine money to Gulf Coast
March 8, 2012 (By: Debragh Barfield Barry and Lenyard king, Florida Today)WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after the BP oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure ...
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Claims czar Kenneth Feinberg says pace of payments quickens
June 20, 2011 (From the The Times-Picayune, written by David Hammer) -Procedural questions and disenchantment remain, but to hear oil spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg tell it -- and to look at stati...
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