The prosecutors are focusing on US-based BP engineers and at least one supervisor who they say may have provided false information to regulators on drilling risks.
BP used over 1.8 million gallons of dispersant during the three-month long oil leak that gushed 4.9 million barrels of crude oil from the Macondo well.
"We are deeply worried that we still know far too little about the environmental impact of the spill, how it could impact wildlife, and the scale of the threat."
Food & Water Watch joined with actor and WaterDefense.org founder Mark Ruffalo to tell the Army Corps to vote against proposed inadequate fracking regulations.
Drilling companies themselves have been diligently collecting water samples from private wells before they drill -- but they're not sharing the information.
The AG said the legal action was necessary following a well blow out, which spilled thousands of gallons of fracking fluids across farm lands and into a vital waterway.
A year later there is widespread complaints of nosebleeds, GI pain, memory loss, persistent coughing, skin lesions and other serious conditions. But where's the help?
It apparently is of little concern to the government that BP is under federal criminal investigation and was responsible for our largest environmental disaster.
Gulf residents and community leaders vented their increasingly grave concerns about the widespread health issues brought on by the three-month-long oil spill.
The companies get to skirt the full environmental review Obama promised offshore drilling projects would have to face, and mostly due to political reasons.
EPA identified 431 containment units for coal slurry and has labeled 49 of them "high hazard"—meaning they pose a risk to human health and the environment.
Drilling will resume but with stricter rules, among them an obligation that companies "certify that the rig has complied with all new and existing rules."
Outside scientists, eager to perform independent evaluations of the government's findings, complain the information released contains far too many unknown variables.
With scores of coastal residents out of work after the spill, BP is hiring inmates to clean up its mess—and getting lucrative tax breaks in the process.
