December 19, 2012 The Associated Press reports the manslaughter trial of two BP rig supervisors has been delayed until 2014. Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine are charged in the death of 11 workers. They're accused of disregarding indications of trouble before BP's well blowout, on April 20th, 2010
December 27, 2010 The worst of the explosions gutted the Deepwater Horizon stem to stern.
Crew members were cut down by shrapnel, hurled across rooms and buried under smoking wreckage. Some were swallowed by fireballs that raced through the oil rig’s shattered interior. Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, crawled inch by inch in pitch darkness, willing themselves to the lifeboat deck.
December 16, 2010 The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it is filing suit against BP and eight other companies for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The DOJ is seeking civil penalties under the Clean Water Act—which could add up to as much as $21 billion—and wants to declare eight of those companies "liable without limitation" for the costs of clean up and damage caused by the disaster.
