Oil company reaches $3.5M settlement over oil spill
Mississippi will be receiving some money after a lawsuit was settled with the largest oil producer in the state. Denbury Resources will pay federal and...
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BP to cut check for oil spill Friday, Hood concerned over use of funds
JACKSON, MISS– The state of Mississippi is expected to receive $150 million from BP on Friday, representing the oil company’s first payment for economic damages...
Budget cut’s of nearly $25 million for state
by Sarah Ulmer
JACKSON, Miss.- Gov. Phil Bryant says he’s making even more budget cuts. The number is $25 million and $10 million out of the state’s rainy...
BP Money Coming to Mississippi: $20 Billion Civil Settlement, Time for Your Comments
by kim
GULFPORT, Miss.–Your comments on what should be done with BP settlement money are now welcome. The deal first announced in July that would send $20...
Thompson: Coast Guard Not Able to Prove They Implemented Oil Spill Recommendations
by kim
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The oil spill that changed Mississippi and the United States forever is still having an effect on the government four years later, and likely...
Mississippi River Traffic Backs Up After Closure Near New Orleans
by kim
NEW ORLEANS, La.–Thanks to an oil spill after a barge hit a tugboat, a near 70 mile stretch of the Mississippi River was closed. That...
BP Ends Clean-up on the Coast Three Years Later
by kim
GULFPORT, Miss.–There may be no more visible signs of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill from 2010 on Mississippi’s beaches. That’s why the company and...