BP reaches $13.7B Gulf spill settlement to close case
BP agrees to provide billions more to five Gulf states raising total spill costs to about $53.8 billion and marking the largest environmental settlement in U.S. history. The 18 year plan funds cleanup, compensation, and future ventures while signaling BP can focus on new projects.
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New Orleans
U.S
Gulf Coast
Bob Dudley
Justice Department
Gulf States
Brian Youngberg
Edward Jones
Galveston Bay vessels removed under 2013 grant program
GBF director Philip Smith details removal of 38 boats including three steel barges from the Galveston Bay complex under a 2013 grant. Seventeen vessels were taken from Cedar Bayou, with many abandoned since Ike in 2008. Vessels were broken up and disposed of at approved landfills. owners were sought, with some paying for removal and ongoing litigation noted.
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Philip Smith
GBF
Smith
Galveston Bay
Cedar Bayou
FEMA
Crawley
Texas General Land Office
Seabrook
FM 14085
Murder case drags on as suspects face high bonds
Williams remains in custody with no bond while Barnes is set at fifty thousand dollars. Chambers County Sheriff and Texas Rangers head to Missouri to extradite the two on murder and hindering prosecution charges. Forney, missing from Texas City, was found June 15 with a throat wound in the J J Mayes Wildlife Trace area between Cove and Wallisville near I 10 Trinity River Bridge.
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Barnes
Chambers County Sheriff's Office
Texas Rangers
Missouri
Chambers County
Hawthorne
Forney
J.J. Mayes Wildlife Trace
Texas City
Cove
Wallisville
Trinity River Bridge
Judge notes growing pace of same sex marriages after ruling
The judge credited the legalization with extending rights to married couples and said more same sex marriages are being scheduled. Coffey stated many more are anticipated as Harris County processes about 274 same sex marriage licenses from nine county clerk offices since the June 26 ruling.
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Coffey
Harris County
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