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BP oil spill: Endangered species still at risk

9 Aug 2010:
Deepwater Horizon spill in US leads to rise in dolphins and endangered brown pelicans injured or killed this week
BP risks Obama row by hinting it may return to stricken oil well

6 Aug 2010:
Company's statement it may not give up all claims on Macondo well escalates ongoing struggle with White House
Gulf oil spill: White House accused of spinning report

5 Aug 2010: Scientists say it is 'just not true' that the vast majority of oil from the BP spill has gone
BP pumps cement into blown-out oil well to seal it for good

5 Aug 2010: Plug could permanently cap wellhead after long fight to contain Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Battle to halt BP oil spill is nearing its end, says Barack Obama

4 Aug 2010: BP claims it has reached 'significant milestone' in efforts to permanently seal Deepwater Horizon well
BP oil spill mostly cleaned up, says US

4 Aug 2010: White House says 75% of oil captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down as 'static kill' operaion shows signs of working
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White House pours oil on troubled gulf waters - in time for the mid-term elections

8 Aug 2010:
It turns out Tony Hayward may be right: the Deepwater Horizon spill is destined to be just a drop in the media ocean
A deadly addiction: figures confirm BP well blowout is history's biggest accidental marine spill

3 Aug 2010:
Damian Carrington: Faced by the scale of this human, economic and ecological catastrophe, can the US – and the rest of the world – begin to wean itself off oil?
Give me Ryanair's brazen villainy over the bogus compassion of BP

1 Aug 2010:
David Mitchell: Tony Hayward's departure can't disguise the fact that the oil giant's motives are purely mercenary
Maybe Tony Hayward was right all along

30 Jul 2010:
Alexander Chancellor: Against the odds, the BP chief executive has got his life back
BP: A near-death experience

28 Jul 2010:
Editorial: Other companies would not just have racked up a multibillion-dollar loss, they would have suffered the corporate equivalent of a public lynching and gone under
Tony Hayward's exit is not enough - BP needs root-and-branch reforms

27 Jul 2010: BP will have an uphill struggle to solve problems that go deeper than its outgoing chief's gaffes
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