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Robert Mackey The New York Times 7/13/2010 On Monday, Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, called on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations “to investigate the role that BP may have played in securing the early release” of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted of murder for the […] July 13th, 2010 | Tags: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, British Petroleum, Lockerbie bomber, Pam Am Flight 103, Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Category: Energy, Great Britain, Middle East, terrorism | Comments are closed
Alistair Barr MarketWatch Pulse FoxBusiness.com 6/23/2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Kenneth Feinberg will step down as the government’s so-called pay czar this summer to focus on running the $20 billion oil spill fund being established by BP PLC , a spokesman for the Treasury Department said Wednesday. As the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, Feinberg […] June 24th, 2010 | Tags: 'pay czar' Kenneth Feinberg, British Petroleum, Gulf of Mexico | Category: Banking and finance, TARP, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
The US has imposed sanctions on an Iranian oil company working with BP in the North Sea – listing it as a body that “persons should not do business with”. Rowena Mason The Telegraph [UK] 19 June 2010 The move will be seen as further evidence of the fracturing relationship between the British energy […] June 21st, 2010 | Tags: British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon disaster, Gulf of Mexico, sanctions | Category: Barack Obama, Iran, United States | Comments are closed
20 June 2010 From the front page of the Drudge Report this evening: Click on the image to see a larger view. Read also BP Oil Spill: As Pay Czar Promises Money, Workers Turned Away From BP Claims Center. Feinberg Says Money is on the Way; Coast Guard Defends Spill Response, Saying Regulations Got […] June 20th, 2010 | Tags: 'pay czar' Kenneth Feinberg, baseball, British Petroleum, golf, Gulf of Mexico, sailing, Tony Hayward | Category: Barack Obama, Politicians | Comments are closed
Breitbart.com 6/20/2010 WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s chief of staff is warning about what might happen if Republicans—who have defended BP over the Gulf oil spill—were to run Congress after the fall election. Rahm Emanuel says the GOP philosophy is to paint BP as the victim. He says Obama will make clear to […] June 20th, 2010 | Tags: "Rules for Radicals", British Petroleum, Rahm Emanuel | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Progressives, Saul Alinsky | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 6/19/2010 Until this week, the general impression of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf has been that the explosion took everyone by surprise, and that neither BP nor a dysfunctional MMS had any idea that the well had reached a critical stage. Two days ago, however, Bloomberg reported that both BP […] June 19th, 2010 | Tags: British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Minerals Management Service, oil spill, Transocean | Category: Energy, federal regulations | Comments are closed
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