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BP protester settles suit alleging retaliation

A woman has reached a lawsuit settlement with a south Mississippi city where she says police arrested her for protesting the BP oil spill then arrested her again in retaliation for suing, according to court records.

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BP seeks to stop payment of some 'inflated' claims

LONDON -- BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls inflated compensation claims stemming from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ex-BP executive's trial delayed

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP executive charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
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$69 million from BP will fund projects in 3 coastal South Mississippi counties

JACKSON -- BP PLC is providing $69 million more to fund four restoration projects for the Mississippi Coast, Gov. Phil Bryant said Thursday.
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BP will pay $340M for Gulf restoration projects in Louisiana

LAFITTE, La. -- BP PLC has agreed to pay $340 million to restore four of the barrier islands that act as hurricane buffers for Louisiana's mainland and create two fish research hatcheries in the state, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday.
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Hood wants BP suit to be tried in state, not federal, court

GULFPORT -- Attorney General Jim Hood said Mississippi's best hope is to keep a pending lawsuit against BP over the 2010 oil spill in state court, but he fears it could get bogged down in federal court.
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Rally on spill's anniversary points out problems, recommends oversight

More than 50 fishermen and shrimpers rallied at the Lee Street docks this morning to remember those who died in the Deepwater Horizon blowout two years ago and protest the lack of response to the needs of the community in the wake of the BP oil spill.
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BP: Two-thirds of state's coastline now clean

BP officials took a helicopter tour of Mississippi beaches this morning and announced that two years after the country's worst oil spill, almost two-thirds of the state's coastline is considered clean.
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Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries

Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Mexico's state oil company is about to test its hand at drilling at extraordinary depths in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hood wins request to remand Feinberg/GCCF suit to state court

Mississippi Attorney General Hood won his request to have his subpoena enforcement action against the Gulf Coast Claims Facility and its administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, heard in a state court.
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Deadly bacteria found in dolphins stranded since BP spill

NOAA officials are saying the BP oil spill could have played a role in the deaths of dolphins in unusually high numbers in the northern Gulf, but they said further testing is needed to draw any conclusions.