BP Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal magistrate has ruled that prosecutors aren't required to provide defense attorneys with more details regarding the charges against a former BP engineer accused of deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...

The judge did not immediately rule on the request.

Two years have passed since the beginning of this immense disaster, what has happened since then?

The Justice Department says another $64 million dollars will be paid out to victims after an audit of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. More seven thousand claimants could be getting more money.

He also discusses the GSA and Secret Service scandals in Washington.

U.S District Judge Carl Barbier calls for a court-supervised administrator to take over the claims process.

After over a year and a half since the oil spill in the Gulf...

Today marks a significant time in the state's recovery from the BP Oil Spill.

The case against oil giant BP will be delayed for at least a week.

One of the workers involved in the BP Oil Spill has settled her personal injury claims against the oil giant. Oleander Benton served as a cook on the oil rig that exploded in April of 2010.

The U.S. House has approved setting aside 80 percent of fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill for environmental restoration work on the Gulf Coast. Late Thursday, the House voted to add an amendment setting aside 80 percent of the fines to the Gulf Coast. The amendment was added to a surface transportation bill offered by U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.

Lawyers for the owners of the drilling rig that exploded at the start of the BP spill are asking a judge to make a key witness talk to them before their trial. Attorneys for Transocean want to interview Donald Vidrine, who was BP's well site leader when the well blew April 20, 2010.

Another one of the companies involved in the Oil Spill gets a break. A judge rules that Houston-based Halliburton will not have to pay many of the pollution claims that resulted from the disaster because it was shielded in a contract with BP.

Some trade groups and industry officials say they disapprove of a proposal being considered by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board to buy the naming rights to the New Orleans Arena. If approved the plan would use about 17 percent of the $30 million BP gave to repair Gulf seafood's damaged reputation after the Deepwater Horizon spill.

BP is taking its next step to getting what they feel they're entitled to. Yesterday, BP filed a claim in federal court in New Orleans, that involved various companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster.

More than a billion barrels of oil could be available to drill beginning next year.

Senators David Vitter and Mary Landrieu are asking the Food and Drug Admistration to PUBLICLY declare Gulf Seafood safe to eat. The FDA has already declared it safe to eat, but the senators are asking the FDA to be a little more vocal about it.

Good news for shrimpers and crabbers hit hard by the BP oil spill. Your compensations payments are being doubled.

BP has lost two big rulings in its fight to shield itself from potentially having to pay billions of dollars more in damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

The Coast Guard has approved a plan to end cleanup along the Gulf Coast from the BP oil spill, a move officials said opens a new phase of work for BP — restoring areas damaged by the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.