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BP’s television advertisements proclaiming that the Gulf of Mexico is open for business have helped the tourism industry in the Gulf States rebound from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and a disastrous 2010 season. But behind the sparkling beaches, the heaping plates of fresh seafood, and happy fishermen shown in BP’s ads are families living in near third-world squalor and whole communities on life support because the BP oil spill destroyed so many jobs.

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A former BP employee who helped form BP’s oil-spill cleanup response in Mississippi is suing the oil giant, alleging his bosses terminated him after he complained to them about how the company was handling cleanup efforts.

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A leading oil research analyst predicts that BP will opt to settle all charges with the U.S. federal government, including some hefty criminal penalties, over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico before the start of legal hearings set to begin February 27 in New Orleans.

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Luther Strange

Jere Beasley, Founding Shareholder of the Beasley Allen law firm, believes Alabama is in good hands with Attorney General Luther Strange and his staff representing the state in the trial against BP for damages stemming from the oil company’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The trial is set to begin next month in New Orleans.

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The Troy, Alabama, city council voted recently to allow the city to pursue a claim against BP for revenues lost during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and in its aftermath. The disastrous oil spill erupted less about 50 miles south of Louisiana in April 2010, flooding the Gulf of Mexico with crude oil just before peak tourism and fishing seasons began.

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Mobile Press-Register reporters went to Alabama’s Dauphin Island Monday looking for tar balls deposited on the beaches by BP’s Gulf oil spill, but they found the most telling signs that all is not right in the Gulf in a number of fish pulled from the surf with “bloody red lesions.”

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Monday night’s BCS National Championship showdown between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University, broadcast nationwide from the Superdome in New Orleans, provided a tantalizing opportunity for BP to release what the Associated Press aptly called a “slick nationwide public relations campaign to persuade Americans that the Gulf region has recovered.”

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Not long after the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, people in the coastal areas of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida began complaining of respiratory irritation, headaches, dizziness, and other symptoms they believe were linked to the noxious fumes of the BP oil spill. Now a new government report about the pollution emitted from the spill and the attempts to clean it up may support such claims.

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Global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced on Sunday that its Appomattox well off the Alabama coast spilled 319 barrels of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf of Mexico. This latest spill occurred about 20 miles from BP’s failed Macondo well, which was ground-zero for the massive oil spill that erupted in the Gulf on April 20, 2010.

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BP has reached a settlement with Cameron International, another one of its contractors involved in the Macondo well operations that ended in a deadly explosion and set off the catastrophic Gulf oil spill. BP sued Cameron and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon‘s drilling operations, claiming each played a role in the April 2010 explosion that killed 11 workers and set off the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

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