Oil Spill
Coastians speak out about oil-spill damage at meeting
Sun Herald
By KAREN NELSON
GAUTIER
-- A crowd of about 150 listened to ways federal and state officials plan to
hold BP to its promise to make the Gulf whole in the wake of the 2010 oil-spill
disaster.
Officials hold meeting on Gulf restoration plans
AP
Federal
and state officials have presented plans to hold BP to its promise to make the
Gulf whole in the wake of the 2010 oil-spill disaster.
Oil spill restoration comments center employing
Mississippians on projects (gallery)
Published: Wednesday,
January 18, 2012, 6:29 AM
Updated: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7:32 AM
Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press
GAUTIER, Mississippi --
Nine people commenting at a public meeting on Early Restoration projects
proposed in response to the BP
Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010
mostly stressed they want to see Mississippians employed.
Oyster fishermen want
work restoring reefs
WLOX
Several oyster fishermen spoke
out at Tuesday's Commission on Marine Resources meeting.
Fishermen air woes at Mississippi
Commission on Marine Resources meeting
Published: Tuesday,
January 17, 2012, 3:03 PM
Updated: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 5:15 PM
Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press
BILOXI, Mississippi -- Fishermen said they
need work in the wake of back-to-back seasons impacted by disasters, during Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources
meeting Tuesday.
2010 BP oil spill suit could be resolved before trial,
Alabama AG Luther Strange says
Published: Tuesday,
January 17, 2012, 4:06 PM
Updated: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 4:07 PM
The
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says there
are a number of talks under way between various parties involved in the
upcoming trial concerning the 2010 BP
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and
that it's possible a settlement could be reached before the start of the Feb.
27 trial in New Orleans.
US government challenges credibility of former BP executive hired as company lawyer consultant
By Associated Press,
U.S. officials say a former BP executive was paid $107,000 a month to do consulting for a company lawyer, but allege the money may have been designed to influence her testimony during a deposition in litigation over the Gulf oil spill.
State News
DeSoto readies D.C. argument
against ozone guideline
Supervisors tap delegates in trip;
greenways studied
Commercial Appeal
By Henry Bailey
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
DeSoto
County supervisors Tuesday selected the team going to Washington to battle a feared ozone ranking, and they also
launched studies of greenways needs and public communications.
