Topic - Gulf Oil

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  Reports raise firms' risk of criminal charges in Gulf spill

  Months of investigation by a presidential commission and other panels have heightened the likelihood that companies involved in the Gulf oil spill will be slapped with criminal charges that could add tens of billions of dollars to the huge fines they already face, legal experts said Thursday.

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  Dramatic spike in gas prices forecast

  Oil and gasoline prices have risen to their highest levels in two years, and analysts say prices could shoot up dramatically this year as the thirst for fuel grows in the U.S. and around the world.

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  Gulf spill fund czar paying for ethics advice

  The administrator of the $20 billion fund BP set up to compensate Gulf oil spill victims is using money from it to pay for advice from a law professor who backs his assertion that he is independent from the oil giant.

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  Florida tourism reels from bad year

  The Hubbard family, owners of a marina complex and seafood restaurant on Florida's Gulf coast near Tampa, would just as soon forget that 2010 ever happened.

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  U.S. sues BP, 8 others for roles in Gulf oil spill

  The Obama administration on Wednesday sued BP PLC and eight other firms for their roles in the Gulf oil disaster, saying they violated federal environmental laws in a bid to recoup billions of dollars in cleanup costs and damages after the worst oil spill in the nation's history.

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  U.S. sues BP, 8 other companies in Gulf oil spill

  The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars in the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.

• American Scene

  Three military veterans who were discharged under the law that prohibits gays from serving openly in uniform sued the government Monday to be reinstated and to pressure lawmakers to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law before a new Congress is sworn in.

• Americans should gear up for natural gas

  One of the many problems America is facing today is the undue influence of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) cartels. That - coupled with President Obama's grandstanding during the Gulf oil well blowout and the resulting moratorium on drilling with new regulations delaying future activities - is hurting the economy more every day.

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  BP deep-cleaning Gulf beaches amid new worries

  What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand out one end, tar balls out another.

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  Silence isn't golden for engine-maker Rolls-Royce

  Silence has not proved golden for Rolls-Royce, the maker of an engine that blew apart on the world's biggest commercial jetliner this month, shooting metal scrap into the wing and setting off a plunge in the British company's stock price.

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  Panel: U.S. thwarted worst-case scenario on spill

  The White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been, according to a panel appointed by President Obama to investigate the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

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  PBS 'NewsHour' continues revamp, adds science unit

  Former CNN reporter Miles O'Brien is joining PBS' "NewsHour" to lead a new science unit as part of a continuing revamp of the nightly newscast.

• Inside the Beltway

  A double standard in Delaware: Why does Republican Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell get such excruciating press scrutiny about a dalliance with witchcraft while her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, gets only a few passing mentions of his youthful admiration of Marxism?

• American Scene

  For 5-year-old Andrew Polasky, being loud has paid off. Andrew was the winner of last weekend's moose-calling contest at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage.

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  BP: Multiple companies, teams contributed to spill

  In an internal report released Wednesday, oil giant BP PLC blamed itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the drilling rig explosion that preceded it.

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