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Survivor stories: the human aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy
Lawyers, investigators, policymakers and safety professionals will be wrangling over the Deepwater Horizon tragedy for years to determine what happened, where fault lay, and who will pay...

Perry on Deepwater Horizon and the Limits of Civil Liability
Ronen Perry (Haifa) has posted The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Limits of Civil Liability, forthcoming in the Washington Law Review. The abstract: The article, which follows up on my recently published work, uses the unprecedented disaster in the...

NOAA Opens More Gulf Waters to Fishing
At its height, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) closure of Gulf of Mexico waters to fishing covered an area larger than the State of Minnesota. Now at just over 1,000 square miles, the closed area is just big enough to no hold no more than  two or three big American cities...

Deepwater Horizon Alarm System Disabled Before Oil Rig Explosion
Michael Williams, chief electrician aboard the Deepwater Horizon, testified Friday at a federal hearing that one of the vessel?s critical alarm systems had been purposefully disabled before the oil rig explosion.

Ongoing Uncertainties over One Year after the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
This week has highlighted the ongoing scientific and political uncertainties in the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. A new paper by a group of NSF funded scientists finds that hydrocarbon transfers from oil spills have different apportionments...

Perry on Civil Liability & the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Ronen Perry (University of Haifa - Faculty of Law) has posted The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Limits of Civil Liability (Washington Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article, which follows up on my recently...

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FDA Expert Panel Votes for Ban

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Expert Panel Advises FDA

$8 Million from Rezulin Class Action
Will Go to Medical Research

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