Joel Waltzer
Judge Grants Tentative Approval to $7.8 Billion BP Oil Spill Settlement
Published by Rhonda Miller on 02 May 2012 07:23pm A federal judge in New Orleans granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a proposed settlement of $7.8 billion in BP oil spill claims. MPB’s Rhonda Miller reports the decision affects thousands of Mississippi residents and businesses. Standing on the porch of his Ocean Springs home, fisherman Anthony [...]
Ex-BP worker facing 40 năm: Former engineer allegedly erased texts in aftermath of oil spill
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors investigating the deadly 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. lịch sử. Kurt Mix, 50, of Katy, Texas, was charged [...]
Alligator Bayou owners: parishes ruined our business
Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou’s floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company’s business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court Thursday. “They (Iberville and Ascension governments) destroyed the swamp tour business. họ (the company’s owners) should be compensated,’’ Clay Garside, [...]
