Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season, is intensifying in the southern Gulf of Mexico but is not expected to hit the location of the British Petroleum oil spill, according to officials.
British Petroleum's $20 billion fund to compensate Gulf oil disaster victims will pay quickly, eliminate trial lawyers' settlement cuts, and allow for BP's continued operations
The Deepwater Horizon Drilling Platform explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not a risk management issue, an insurance executive said.
While the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is unlikely to affect the formation or speed of hurricanes, the direction of storms could either further harm or help efforts to keep the spill from sensitive wetlands...
The BP oil spill disaster exposed serious shortcomings in both technology and regulation, but the biggest culprit is a catastrophic failure of enterprise risk management.