Tag: BP oil spill
Alabama House passes 11th-hour Medicaid funding patch in BP settlement compromise
A deal providing $70 million in additional funding from the BP settlement to Medicaid was struck Thursday night in the Alabama House, providing a...
Alabama House Committee approves bill dividing BP oil spill settlement
The Alabama House Budget Committee approved a bill Wednesday dividing the $20 billion settlement BP is scheduled to pay the state over 18 years for the...
Federal judge OKs $20 billion settlement from 2010 BP oil spill
A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the...
Judge: BP not to pay oil industry losses from moratorium
A federal judge ruled that BP does not have to pay for economic losses other businesses suffered when the federal government shut down deep-water...
Opening statements to begin in trial of former BP rig supervisor
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for a Deepwater Horizon rig supervisor are ready to tell jurors what they expect to prove as 65-year-old Robert Kaluza...
Judge blocks state from using oil spill money to build hotel
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Alabama from using early oil spill restoration funds to build a 350-room beachfront hotel and conference center.
U.S. District...
Group seeks arguments over Alabama’s use of BP oil spill funds
An environmental group has asked a judge to hear oral arguments in its lawsuit challenging Alabama's plans to use oil spill settlement funds to...
$21 million approved for Alabama Gulf conservation projects
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has approved of spending more than $21 million on projects to restore areas...
Midnight deadline approaches for oil spill settlement claims
With a midnight Monday deadline approaching to file claims under a 2012 settlement over the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the claims administrator...
BP oil spill 5 years later
Here's a look at some of the local and national news coverage on the five year anniversary of the BP oil spill:
Alabama’s Attorney General,...
