AP - A public interest law firm is preparing to sue the owners of a pipeline that ruptured in southern Michigan and dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, while area residents planned to voice their concerns Monday to government officials.
Reuters - U.S. securities regulators are investigating whether people may have illegally profited from trading on nonpublic information at BP Plc in the weeks and months following the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Monday.
AP - Oil prices rose 3 percent Monday on positive economic news and rallying stock markets. The jump above $81 per barrel could translate into higher pump prices ahead.
AFP - World oil prices climbed on Monday, approaching 80 dollars per barrel, as traders set aside downbeat Chinese economic data to focus on rising stock markets, analysts said.
AP - After insisting for months that a pair of costly relief wells were the only surefire way to kill the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials said Monday they may be able to do it just with lines running from a ship to the blown-out well a mile below.
AP - Plans by BP to begin drilling for oil off Britain’s Shetland isles and the Libyan coast within weeks are facing growing opposition in the wake of the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
AP - Several environmental groups have asked a federal appeals court to disqualify a judge from a lawsuit over the Obama administration’s initial six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling.
PR Newswire - UNITY, Maine, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Thursday, August 5, Unity College will gift two solar panels formerly atop the White House to the people of China and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
AP - A new federal study of chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico shows that when mixed with oil, the dispersant is no more toxic to aquatic life than oil alone.
AP - Seafood from some parts of the oil-fouled Gulf of Mexico has been declared safe to eat by the government, based in part on human smell tests. But even some Gulf fishermen are questioning whether the fish and shrimp are OK to feed to their own families.