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Friday, November 16, 2012  Two company employees charged in the deaths of 11 rig workers claim the Justice Department is trying to make them scapegoats.

Thursday, November 15, 2012  BP agrees to plead guilty and pay a record $4.5 billion over Gulf spill; 3 employees charged

Friday, June 15, 2012  Stephen Baldwin awarded nothing in lawsuit against Kevin Costner over lucrative BP contract

Friday, April 20, 2012  FDA says no risk from Gulf seafood amid environmental worry over sick fish at oil spill site

Tuesday, November 08, 2011  Oil spill defendants want to keep investigations blaming them for disaster out of civil trial

Wednesday, September 14, 2011  New evidence cites more BP oil spill mistakes as panel prepares to release its report

Thursday, April 21, 2011  Lengthy court battle looms over oil spill disaster; BP, rig owner, others look to lay blame

Wednesday, April 20, 2011  The president said significant progress has been made since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, but the work isn't done.

Thursday, December 30, 2010  Cleanup of Gulf Coast nears end, but buried oil in sands may linger for a long time

Wednesday, December 29, 2010  As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control, BP's financial liabilities seemed big enough to sink the company. No more.

Thursday, December 16, 2010  Feds sue BP, other companies for oil spill damages, saying their safety lapses led to blast.

Wednesday, September 08, 2010  BP report blames itself, other companies' workers, series of failures for Gulf oil spill

Monday, August 30, 2010  Missouri's environmental director has resigned to take a job to help oversee a $20 billion fund for people harmed by the Gulf oil spill.

Monday, August 23, 2010  The new claims facility for damages from the Gulf oil spill begins operations today and the man who will run it says payouts will be more generous than from any court.

Friday, August 06, 2010  The wreckage — including the failed blowout preventer and the blackened, twisted remnants of the drilling platform that exploded, burned and sank in mile-deep water in the Gulf in April — may be Exhibit A.